[dmn001]

It would just be much easier to use the Facebook graph api, there is an official Python module and is well documented, and would be less likely to hit rate limits or other blocks - ironically that was one of the reasons that the author used scraping instead of the api.

[minimaxir]

Incidentally, the Graph API wouldn't work for this use case, since the Graph API will not let you get any data from users unless that user is authorized.