Python/selenium scraper for FB post based in part on harismuneer/Ultimate-Facebook-Scraper
Warning: This is only intended for use on public pages, e.g. newspapers. Use only with express permission from Facebook as using it may otherwise violate the terms & conditions and/or other laws or regulations. We are not your lawyer and this is not legal advice.
First, you need to download and install chromedriver and make sure your chrome version matches the chromedriver version. See: http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
To install using pip:
pip3 install fbpostscraper
To install by cloning from github (e.g. to edit the scraper):
git clone https://github.com/nruigrok/fbpostscraper
cd fbpostscraper
python3 -m venv env
env/bin/pip install -e .
To scrape e.g. the New York Times facebook posts into a posts.csv file:
python3 -m fbpostscraper -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD nytimes > posts.csv
or if you installed python in a virtual environment env:
env/bin/python3 -m fbpostscraper -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD nytimes > posts.csv
Since having your facebook password in your bash history is probably not a good idea, it is recommended to copy the fbcredentials_example.py file to fbcredentials.py and enter your credentials there. After that, you can omit the username and password from the call.