Facebook Crawler

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Software that scrapes & collect users data like posts, photos, info from Facebook .

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Installation

Install from source

$ git clone https://github.com/ghanmi-hamza/Facebook_Scraper.git
$ python setup.py install

Facebook Crawler requires Webdriver to run. So Please make sure that Firefox is installed + geckodriver :

• 1. Download geckodriver from this link geckodriver and extract it.
• 2. Place the path of geckodriver.exe in myclass.py in the executable_path variable.

To download data in the specific path don't forget to change it in main.py save_data(dic,dic["name"],data_path") else a folder will be created like the path that i used.

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Usage

Command Line :

$ cd Crawler
$ python __main.py__ --url= --n= --pubs= --nb_images= --download=

Options :

• --url string : Full Url of the profile you want to scrape .
• --n int : number of pages .
• --pubs bool : get publication or not .
• --nb_images int : number of profile images to scrape .
• --download bool : download data or not .

Example :

$ python __main.py__ --url="https://www.facebook.com/profile/airdoggo/" --pubs="False" --nb_images=10 --download="True"

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Data Extracted

• user_info

  • Name
  • Intro
  • Friends
  • Gender
  • Birthday

• Events

• Images

• Pubs

  • Date
  • Contenu
  • Comments{user,date,comment}

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• If you liked the repo then kindly support it by giving it a star ⭐
• If there is any bug in the code or if you want any improvement don't hesitate to contact me.

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Please Check the test Folder to see the some examples and don't forget to put your facebook id and password as (usr, pwd)...

🌐 Connect

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License

MIT