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Show HN: Free Demo of Facebook Scraper (public pages only)
- helb 6y agoDoesn'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?
- redhathacker 6y agoyep, 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?
- abarrettwilsdon 6y agoI 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
- redhathacker 6y agoya Facebook is known for serving legal notices to anybody with facebook in the domain name.
- Jaruzel 6y agoI wrote one of these a while ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20191119175736/https://nofb.pw/ 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.
- redhathacker 6y agooh that's nice. Can I buy your domain name?