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Scrape Facebook page user posts text
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(May-08-2017, 12:51 AM)metulburr Wrote: facebook has its own API. It would be wise to scrape posts via their API verses logging in via selenium...otherwise you could find yourself blocked from facebook from repetitive requests.
Yup, I had the API in mind. Not 100% sure how limited it might be yet. However, I know that manually attempting to extract posts from some HTML source code is a headache in itself and a last resort too.
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Scrape Facebook page user posts text - by stockholm - Apr-25-2017, 02:13 PM
RE: Scrape Facebook page user posts text - by n3vo - May-08-2017, 12:50 AM
RE: Scrape Facebook page user posts text - by Joseph_f2 - May-08-2017, 01:17 AM

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