FaceBook-Scraper [2020]
Scrape posts from any group or user into a .csv file without needing to register for any API access
How to use it?
Firstly, make sure you have selenium >= 3.141.0, GeckoDriver and FireFox installed.
Store your email and password for Facebook login in credentials.txt.
Use scraper.py to collect the data.
usage: fb-scraper/scraper.py [-h] [--pages PAGES [PAGES ...]] [--groups GROUPS [GROUPS ...]][-d DEPTH]
Data Collection
arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p, --pages PAGES [PAGES ...]
List the pages you want to scrape
for recent posts
-g, --groups GROUPS [GROUPS ...]
List the groups you want to scrape
for recent posts
-d DEPTH, --depth DEPTH
How many recent posts you want to gather in
multiples of (roughly) 8.
Example: python scraper.py --pages feelzesty -d 20
The output is posts.csv inside the script folder.
Output is in three columns: PosterName(Author), uTime and Text