facebook-page-scraper 0.1.8

Python package to scrap facebook's pages front end with no limitations

Facebook Page Scraper

No registration, No need of API key, No limitation on number of requests. Import the library and Just Do It !

Prerequisites

• Internet Connection
• Python 3.6+
• Chrome or Firefox browser installed on your machine

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Installation:

Installing from source:

git clone https://github.com/shaikhsajid1111/facebook_page_scraper 

Inside project's directory

python3 setup.py install

Installing with pypi

pip3 install facebook-page-scraper

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How to use?

#import Facebook_scraper class from facebook_page_scraper
from facebook_page_scraper import Facebook_scraper

#instantiate the Facebook_scraper class

page_name = "facebookai"
posts_count = 10
browser = "firefox"

facebook_ai = Facebook_scraper(page_name,posts_count,browser)

Parameters for Facebook_scraper(page_name,posts_count,browser) class

Parameter Name	Parameter Type	Description
page_name	string	name of the facebook page
posts_count	integer	number of posts to scrap, if not passed default is 10
browser	string	which browser to use, either chrome or firefox. if not passed,default is chrome

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Done with instantiation?. Let the scraping begin!

For post's data in JSON format:

#call the scrap_to_json() method

json_data = facebook_ai.scrap_to_json()
print(json_data)

Output:

{
    "1739843239525955": {
        "name": "Facebook AI",
        "shares": 43,
        "reactions": {
            "likes": 129,
            "loves": 11,
            "wow": 8,
            "cares": 0,
            "sad": 0,
            "angry": 0,
            "haha": 0
        },
        "reaction_count": 148,
        "comments": 3,
        "content": "We’re transitioning the Visdom project to the team at FOSSASIA. Visdom is a flexible tool for creating, organizing, and sharing visualizations of live, rich data. It aims to facilitate visualization of remote data with an emphasis on supporting scientific experimentation. We’re excited to see where the team, in collaboration with the developer and user community, take the project.",
        "posted_on": "2021-01-05T17:22:54",
        "video": "https://www.facebook.com/facebookai/videos/1739843239525955",
        "image": [
            "https://scontent-bom1-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s526x296/135871741_1739843246192621_8564947121610203331_o.png?_nc_cat=108&ccb=2&_nc_sid=da1649&_nc_ohc=Hk7peLe8e-cAX_xLejp&_nc_ht=scontent-bom1-2.xx&_nc_tp=30&oh=856a17109cbc4a6657dbb68564dfc568&oe=60291FC7"
        ],
        "post_url": "https://www.facebook.com/facebookai/posts/1739843239525955"
    }, ...

}

Output Structure for JSON format:

{
    "id": {
        "name": string,    
        "shares": integer,
        "reactions": {
            "likes": integer,
            "loves": integer,
            "wow": integer,
            "cares": integer,
            "sad": integer,
            "angry": integer,
            "haha": integer
        },
        "reaction_count": integer,
        "comments": integer,
        "content": string,
        "video" : string,
        "image" : list,
        "posted_on": datetime,  //string containing datetime in ISO 8601
        "post_url": string
    }
}

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For saving post's data directly to CSV file

#call scrap_to_csv(filename,directory) method


filename = "data_file"  #file name without CSV extension,where data will be saved
directory = "E:\data" #directory where CSV file will be saved
facebook_ai.scrap_to_csv(filename,directory)

content of data_file.csv:

id,name,shares,likes,loves,wow,cares,sad,angry,haha,reactions_count,comments,content,posted_on,video,image,post_url
1791700921006853,Facebook AI,45,150,19,5,0,0,0,0,174,8,"Facebook AI has built TimeSformer, an entirely new architecture for video understanding. It’s the first that’s based exclusively on the self-attention mechanism used in Transformers.  TimeSformer outperforms the state of the art while being more efficient than 3D ConvNets for video.",2021-03-15T17:14:30,,https://scontent-bom1-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/p540x282/156274680_471569777206221_706631440205169419_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=eaa83b&_nc_ohc=eyfETEUuHzQAX8DqwMU&_nc_ht=scontent-bom1-2.xx&tp=6&oh=2e9c6490fe3ad19a398905b3b615c88b&oe=6075FFE4,https://www.facebook.com/FacebookAI/posts/1791700921006853?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCfsjOoZa0yc0TPws1koBr9ezS44Xf6Up04CqOhWnoDqrO35NdIdgjNSTWBrsUtm_y7MamZTjc_-p2rTobXe5WvxWd_eywuSzt98B7Vaj5hobF4OTZhe7VRgVJJY1wxEeAJf4nCZSs1tF1gWJJ0s5pPUGMmJsfD1UM5a3eERo-2t1JnTBHOSYs9Xsj5fV0iL-FiWAms_2-9KNRGqoojg9KfSAlffh_qxL8ztgznqC1sxfcU6MwAqdPN2va_T8cez29ZvJ1Er1j26VR7pnpWGyTMuW5wMrNxC-pz_8pVls8uk0iDramIOA&__tn__=-R
...

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Parameters for scrap_to_csv(filename,directory) method.

Parameter Name	Parameter Type	Description
filename	string	name of the CSV file where post's data will be saved
directory	string	directory where CSV file have to be stored.

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Keys of the outputs:

Key	Type	Description
id	string	Post Identifier(integer casted inside string)
name	string	Name of the page
shares	integer	share count of post
reactions	dictionary	dictionary containing reactions as keys and its count as value. Keys => ["likes","loves","wow","cares","sad","angry","haha"]
reaction_count	integer	total reaction count of post
comments	integer	comments count of post
content	string	content of post as text
video	string	URL of video present in that post
image	list	python's list containing URLs of all images present in the post
posted_on	datetime	time at which post was posted(in ISO 8601 format)
post_url	string	URL for that post

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Privacy

This scraper only scrapes public data available to unauthenticated user and does not holds the capability to scrap anything private.

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Tech

This project uses different libraries to work properly.

• selenium
• webdriver manager

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If you encounter anything unusual please feel free to create issue here

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LICENSE

MIT