lorenzomonti/facebook_page_group_comments

Facebook Page and Group's Post Scraper is a script for gathering data using Facebook's Graph API

Facebook Page and Group's Post Scraper

This is a simple script to gather all comments of a Facebook Page or Group. The script outputs the posts in Json file format.

Initial setup

1. Access to https://developers.facebook.com/ and create a new App.
2. Make sure to have the following permissions active: publish_to_groups, pages_read_user_content, pages_manage_engagement, pages_manage_posts, Page Public Content Access Feature.
3. Create a folder named posts on the root directory of the repository.
4. Add app_id and app_secret in scrape_post_and_comment.py script.
5. Add page_id, you can find this in the section of the url in page or group searched (https://www.facebook.com/!!THIS PART!!/).
6. Lauch script and have fun! :) .

Usage

Once data are scraped, you can find Json files in /posts/ folder.

Test

You can test every API here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/

facebook_page_group_comments's Issues

http error: bad request

When ever I try to add any thing i.e app id it shows error bad request

HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

Hi,
I am getting this error.

Error for URL https://graph.facebook.com/v2.11/RailMinIndia/posts?access_token=###################################&limit=25: 2020-03-04 21:46:32.320291
Retrying.

Do i need to take permission from my developer fb account to access page ?

Accessing to pages owned by other people

It looks like the Graph API is only allowing you to access data from the pages you own. That's why I keep getting 400 error.

Refer to this section of the official documentation