There were a handful of pages on Facebook that I used to keep tabs on that would have had to have been public as I do not have an account, but now I can't get FB to let me see some of them without a login (for example https://www.facebook.com/MadisonAudubon). I have no idea if my IP as been flagged, which they appear to do aggressively, or the pages were made private or FB introduced some addition settings and the pages are now configured or what.
Note I am referring to a local proxy, listening on the loopback device and under the control of the user, not one listening on a network interface connected to the internet and certainly not one operated by a third party as a "service".
Good luck.
[1] https://github.com/bAndie91/libyazzy-preload/blob/master/src...
This has not been my experience. It is still as easy as ever using the mobile sites.
However I suspect one person's notion of "scraping" is not always the same as another's. I prefer to work on the command line, in textmode. Thus when I check Facebook I want text-only, no graphics. First I extract the all the story.php URLs and sort them by date. Then I retrieve the contents stored at these URLS and dump into a text-only format so I can read through comments. If there is something that looks interesting I can save the story URL and check out the photos later on a computer that has graphics layer loaded.
TBH, with Facebook I mainly just check messages and notifications. Saving story URLs in chronological order is useful for me because it makes it easy to go back and find items from the past. But if I were really serious about monitoring a "feed" I can create one myself, better than Facebook's, by retrieving the profile page of each friend and extracting story URLs from their source instead of relying on Facebook's manipulative algorithms that deliberately hide stories and re-order what they do show, non-chronologically, in a way that suits Facebook's interests over the user's.
I do not use any fancy software, just a local TLS proxy, netcat (or equivalent) and ubiquitous base userland UNIX text processing utilities. I use a text-only browser (not lynx) for reading HTML and a pager (less) for reading formatted text.
I use the m.facebook.com or mbasic.facebook.com sites, not www.facebook.com because the site on the www subdomain uses GraphQL instead of hyperlinks. Not to mention the mbasic subdomain has no ads.
The way websites use GraphQL instead of simple hyperlinks is unnecessarily complex, reminiscient of a Rube Goldberg cartoon.