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hey ThinkBeat, sorry to hijack a comment. You posted a Ask HN: thread [0] Ask HN: Are there any web/text scrapers that work with Facebook Groups? did u found

• ThinkBeat 5y ago
  Hey, No, I have not found anything that I would dare to try. There is a (in my opinion) shady set of "scraper providers" who for some $$$ (how much and by what matrix differs a lot). That claim to do this for you. Firstly, I dont really trust them to begin with. Second since this a breach of Facebook TOS going with a known provider seems scary and I would prefer to set my own request repeat speed. More importantly usually their main "top" feature is to scrape out all contact information in a group for "marketing" opportunities. So I decided against all those. I am still looking. I have not given up. My need for this is actually increasing. I tried doing it by hand but I could not stand it. I have tried some Macro recorders of various types but not found one that really understands what I want to do. The structure of Facebooks pages are (on purpose?) hard to explain to such a tool. I keep looking around various scraping frameworks for Go, C# and Python. I have not yet been able to create a program / script that is good enough. It seems so bloody easy when you sit there,with Facebook in a browser you scroll, cut paste, scroll. annoying. To be clear, I want the content of the post I am an admin for. Other admins and some users are worried that many years worth of great discourse can be lost at a blink of a Facebook eye. So I am trying to find a "backup" solution really.