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by 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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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?

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
ya Facebook is known for serving legal notices to anybody with facebook in the domain name.