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Issues Scraping Facebook using facebook_scraper
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I'm scraping facebook groups using Facebook_Scraper but I am experiencing issues with it.

Here's the code I have:

import operator
from facebook_scraper import get_posts
from wordlist import words


title_list = []

for submission in get_posts(group = "nintendo", pages=1):
	titles = str(submission['text'][:10])
	titles = titles.replace("\n", " ")
	title_list.append(titles)
	word_list = [word for line in title_list for word in line.split()]

filtered_words1 = [word for word in word_list if word in words]

print(filtered_words1)
The file wordlist.py contains only the following:

words = ["Python"]
Here's the following error I receive:

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 15, in <module> filtered_words1 = [word for word in word_list if word in words] NameError: name 'word_list' is not defined
I'm not sure why it's throwing the error. word_list is defined clearly enough.
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Issues Scraping Facebook using facebook_scraper - by DustinKlent - Dec-05-2020, 11:58 PM

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