facebook-events-development

A simple tool to scrape Facebook events using Selenium

Requirements

• Chrome is installed on your computer. If your computer doesn't have Chrome, you can download it from here.
  If you don't have access to a browser, you can download using this guide: https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-google-chrome-web-browser-on-ubuntu-20-04/.

Usage

from facebook_events import find_all_events
print(find_all_events('https://www.facebook.com/csesoc/events/'))
# ['https://www.facebook.com/events/1338543436555126/', ...]

from facebook_events import get_event_details
import json
print(json.dumps(get_event_details('https://facebook.com/events/837282680573570/'), indent=2))
{
  "id": "837282680573570",
  "url": "https://facebook.com/events/837282680573570/",
  "title": "SecSoc x CSESoc BBQ",
  "time_start": "2022-07-13T12:00:00",
  "time_finish": "2022-07-13T14:00:00",
  "description": "...",
  "location": "...",
  "hosts": [
    {
      "id": "csesoc",
      "name": "CSESoc UNSW",
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/csesoc/"
    }
  ],
  "image_url": "...",
  "category": None
}

Notes

• This is a very early version of the tool. It is not yet complete.