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Show HN: Free Demo of Facebook Scraper (public pages only) (facebookscraper.net)
3 points by redhathacker 2075 days ago
2 comments
Jaruzel 2074 days ago
I wrote one of these a while ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191119175736/https://nofb.pw/

but I found that successfully scraping the wide variety of FB page styles to be a non-stop effort, so results were patchy at best.

I wish you luck with yours tho, hope you have more success at it than I did.

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redhathacker 2073 days ago
oh that's nice. Can I buy your domain name?
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helb 2075 days ago
Doesn't seem to work – getposts.php returns an empty response, the URL in "Data Scraped from Facebook Page …" heading changes, but the posts displayed are still from that demo dog page.

EDIT: Upon further inspection, it does work for some pages, but not for all of them (even if they are public). Maybe some limitation by FB's page type/category?

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redhathacker 2075 days ago
yep, I tested and found it doesn't work for all pages.

It does a request to m.facebook.com/$Q/posts

sometimes it's there, sometimes not.

It's just a demo and only to gauge interest in a full blown API / SaaS of some sort.

Are you generally interested in scraping data from FB using a API?

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abarrettwilsdon 2074 days ago
I caution against trying to monetize it; Facebook will waste your time with constant cat and mouse changes to the HTML and will bully you with their vast legal resources
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redhathacker 2073 days ago
ya Facebook is known for serving legal notices to anybody with facebook in the domain name.
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