Facebook Group Posts Scraper

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Facebook Group Posts Scraper is a package which is used for scraping facebook group posts by their group ids.

Getting Started - Installation

npm i facebook-group-posts-scraper -g --unsafe-perm
fgps init

Usage

To scrape posts from group accessible by URL facebook.com/groups/some_group/:

fgps --group-ids some_group --output /some/output/dir

For many groups at once:

fgps --group-ids some_group1,some_group2,some_group3 --output /some/output/dir

Command-line options

• fgps -h/--help - Shows the help page.
• fgps -v/--version - Shows the CLI version.
• fgps --output - Specify the output folder destination.
• fgps --headful - Disable headless mode.
• fgps init - Initialize user configuration.
• fgps --group-ids - Indicates which groups ids that we want to scrape (seperated by commas).

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Kaan Yagci 💻 💬 🚇 📦

Idil Saglam 💻

Grzegorz Adam Kowalski 💻 🐛 📖

ameierchen 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Changelog

[2.3.0] - 2020-05-03

Changed

• Code globally refactored

Fixed

• init option issue fixed

[2.2.0] - 2020-04-20

Fixed

• Directory not found issue fixed for group names which contains / character by replacing _ character.

[2.1.0] - 2020-04-20

Fixed

• Directory not found issue fixed for group names which contains / character.
• Unwanted \ characters removed at EOL in readme.

[2.0.0] - 2020-04-19

Added

• Arm architecture support added.

Changed

• XPath selector for group title changed.

Fixed

• UnHandledPromiseRejection issue relateed to not found textContent fixed
• Typos fixed on help page

[1.0.0] - 2020-04-17

Added

• Stored user credentials feature added.
• Dynamic group id’s added as CLI option.
• Help page added.
• Version option added.
• First version of instructions added in README.md file.