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Re:RSS-Bridge – The RSS feed for websites missing it by trog on Sunday January 02, 2022 @06:05PM (#29775094)
I have been wondering if, instead of bothering to try to scrape Facebook via DOM, it might be worth pursuing a basic image matching approach to divide a Facebook page up into regular "chunks" that are just saved as images.

I'd personally be happy with an RSS feed of Facebook as just a series of images in a feed, but I guess once you've gone that far you could relatively simply run it through OCR to get most of the text.

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Re:RSS-Bridge – The RSS feed for websites missing it by Karrot_Kream on Sunday January 02, 2022 @06:34PM (#29775330)
I've toyed around with scraping Facebook through a headless chrome myself but haven't done it yet.

Have you taken a look at https://mbasic.facebook.com ? It might be simpler to parse.

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