README.md

Facebook crawling with Python

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0UWOzYsig

Features:

• Get information of posts
• Filter comments
• Not required sign in

Data Fields:

[
    {
        "url": "",
        "id": "",
        "utime": "",
        "text": "",
        "total_shares": "",
        "total_cmts": "",
        "reactions": ["reactions displayed below post content"],
        "crawled_cmts": [
            {
                "id": "",
                "utime": "",
                "user_url": "",
                "user_id": "",
                "user_name": "",
                "text": "",
                "replies": [
                    { "id": "", "utime": "", "user_id": "", "user_name": "",  "text": "" },
                    { "id": "", "utime": "", "user_id": "", "user_name": "",  "text": "" },
                    { "id": "", "utime": "", "user_id": "", "user_name": "",  "text": "" },
                ]
            },
        ]
    },
]

Usage:

1. Install Helium: pip install helium
2. Customize the crawler.py file:
   • PAGE_URL: url of Facebook page
   • SCROLL_DOWN: number of scroll times for loading more posts
   • FILTER_CMTS_BY: show comments by MOST_RELEVANT / NEWEST / ALL_COMMENTS
   • VIEW_MORE_CMTS: number of times for loading more comments
   • VIEW_MORE_REPLIES: number of times for loading more replies
3. Start crawling:
   • Sign out Facebook (cause some CSS Selectors will be different as sign in)
   • Run python crawler.py

Reference: https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium