Facebook Post Scraper

This script can scrape posts from a Facebook's group. It save a CSV file. It requires Python 3, Selenium Webdriver and Chrome browser.

Installation

You'll need to have python, pip, and Google Chrome installed to use this tool. Once that's all set up:

1. Clone this repository
2. cd into the cloned folder
3. pip install -r requeriments.txt

Set up its config.txt file

Fill your email, password of Facebook's profile and Facebook's group ID.

[credentials]
email=foo@bar.com
password=secret
[group]
id=675848676543890

Run the script

1. cd app
2. Run python facebook_post_scraper.py -c config.txt
3. Optionally you can pass the second parameter which limits the number of posts:
   python facebook_post_scraper.py -c config.txt -l 40
4. It will open a browser window and will fill your username & password automatically.
5. You should see your Facebook's group page scroll to the bottom.
6. A CSV file will be created with the data (posts_YYYY-MM-DD_HHMM.csv)