Facebook Post Scraper

Description

Note: this script is a work-in-progress project. Some parts of it may not be finished or may be subject to change.

Facebook Post Scraper is a small Python script for searching and scraping posts from a Facebook search.

Tools Used

• Selenium
• BeautifulSoup
• (In development) PostgreSQL

Installation and Use

1. Clone the project.

   https://github.com/denibulkashvili/FacebookPostScraper.git
   

2. Create new virtual environment, activate it and install required packages

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Rename env.sample into .env and update with your login info
4. Update seach keyword and other ssearch settings in start.py
5. Download chrome driver and copy it into the root directory
6. Run python start.py from the terminal