How to Extract Facebook Posts, Comments, Pages, Photos, and More?
With this tutorial blog, you can use Python for scraping data from all Facebook profiles or pages . The data you would be scraping from the predefined amounts of posts include: Post URLs Post Media URLs Post Texts You would be scraping comments from different posts as well as from every comment: Profile’s Name Comment Text Profile URLs Certainly, there are a lot more, which can be scraped from Facebook however for this tutorial blog it would be sufficient. Python Packages In this tutorial blog, you would require following Python packages: bs4 (BeautifulSoup) collections json logging re requests time Don’t forget to install all these packages in the Python Virtual Environment to do this project, this is a superior practice. Scrape Facebook Using Requests Facebook is loaded with JavaScript however the requests package does not extract JavaScript; this only permits you to do easy web requests including POST and GET. Note: In this tutorial blog, you will scrape Facebook’s mobile version a