Facebook Regex Scraper

Scrape Facebook Public Group Posts without using Facebook API using Selenium.

What It can Do

• Scrape text from Public Group Posts

Install Requirements

Please make sure Firefox is installed and geckodriver is available.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

from Scrape import Scrape

scraper = Scrape("webdriver/geckodriver")
 
# pattern to find Instagram profiles. Source: regex101.com/r/uNc8HG/1
my_pattern = "@\w(?:(?:\w|(?:\.(?!\.))){0,28}(?:\w))?"

scraper.set_pattern(pattern=my_pattern)

for r in scraper.get_posts(group="123456789012345"):
    print("https://www.instagram.com/{}/".format(r.replace("@","")))

Note:

• Please use this code for Educational purposes only