Scrape Facebook public pages without an API key.
Project description
Use local
install package python setup.py install
Install
pip install scrape-facebook or pip3 install scrape-facebook
Usage
>>> from scrape_facebook import get_posts >>> for post in get_posts('nintendo', pages=1): ... print(post['text'][:50]) ... The final step on the road to the Super Smash Bros We’re headed to PAX East 3/28-3/31 with new games
Optional parameters
- pages: how many pages of posts to request, usually the first page has 2 posts and the rest 4. Default is 10.
- timeout: how many seconds to wait before timing out. Default is 5.
- sleep: how many seconds to sleep between each request. Default is 0.
- credentials: tuple of user and password to login before requesting the posts. Default is
None
.
Post example
{'post_id': '2257188721032235', 'text': 'Don’t let this diminutive version of the Hero of Time fool you, ' 'Young Link is just as heroic as his fully grown version! Young Link ' 'joins the Super Smash Bros. series of amiibo figures!', 'time': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 29, 12, 0, 1), 'image': 'https://scontent.flim16-1.fna.fbcdn.net' '/v/t1.0-0/cp0/e15/q65/p320x320' '/58680860_2257182054366235_1985558733786185728_n.jpg' '?_nc_cat=1&_nc_ht=scontent.flim16-1.fna' '&oh=31b0ba32ec7886e95a5478c479ba1d38&oe=5D6CDEE4', 'likes': 2036, 'comments': 214, 'shares': 0, 'post_url': 'https://m.facebook.com/story.php' '?story_fbid=2257188721032235&id=119240841493711', 'link': 'https://bit.ly/something'}
Notes
- There is no guarantee that every field will be extracted (they might be
None
). - Shares doesn't seem to work at the moment.
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