Re:Show HN: Free Demo of Facebook Scraper (public pages only)
by helb on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:32AM
(#24837736)
Doesn't seem to work – getposts.php returns an empty response, the URL in "Data Scraped from Facebook Page …" heading changes, but the posts displayed are still from that demo dog page.
EDIT: Upon further inspection, it does work for some pages, but not for all of them (even if they are public). Maybe some limitation by FB's page type/category?
Re:Show HN: Free Demo of Facebook Scraper (public pages only)
by abarrettwilsdon on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:07PM
(#24849149)
I caution against trying to monetize it; Facebook will waste your time with constant cat and mouse changes to the HTML and will bully you with their vast legal resources
https://web.archive.org/web/20191119175736/https://nofb.pw/
but I found that successfully scraping the wide variety of FB page styles to be a non-stop effort, so results were patchy at best.
I wish you luck with yours tho, hope you have more success at it than I did.
EDIT: Upon further inspection, it does work for some pages, but not for all of them (even if they are public). Maybe some limitation by FB's page type/category?
It does a request to m.facebook.com/$Q/posts
sometimes it's there, sometimes not.
It's just a demo and only to gauge interest in a full blown API / SaaS of some sort.
Are you generally interested in scraping data from FB using a API?