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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?

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Re:Show HN: Free Demo of Facebook Scraper (public pages only) by redhathacker on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:53PM (#24840375)
yep, I tested and found it doesn't work for all pages.

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?

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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
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Re:Show HN: Free Demo of Facebook Scraper (public pages only) by redhathacker on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:23PM (#24854050)
ya Facebook is known for serving legal notices to anybody with facebook in the domain name.
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