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Facebook Comments Scraper

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Extract data from hundreds of Facebook comments from one or multiple Facebook posts. Get comment text, timestamp, likes count and basic commenter info. Download the data in JSON, CSV, Excel and use it in apps, spreadsheets, and reports.

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Not to able to get the image in the comment

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nitin84india opened this issue
3 months ago

Hi previously we are getting the image in the comment but now we are not getting it. And also what type of data we can get in the comments like gif, video etc please update the document as well

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nitin84india

3 months ago

Hi any update on the above issue?

alexey avatar

Hi!

No quick solution since Facebook adding limits to available data so when something no longer saved in dataset it means that actor no longer getting such details.

Will keep you informed about the progress.

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nitin84india

3 months ago

Hi Alexey Udovydchenko We are getting images in the normal post but not in the poll post specifically

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nitin84india

2 months ago

Any update on this

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nitin84india

2 months ago

Any update ???

jakubkonecny avatar

Hello, thank you for your patience. Since Facebook added said limits, we aren't getting images inside the polls. They are still available in normal posts, but poll posts don't give that data back at the current moment. We will investigate the issue further, if there are some other ways of getting it and changing the scraper, and we'll inform you if we find anything.

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nitin84india

2 months ago

Do you have the list in which case we don't get the details like the above so it will be easy for us

alexey avatar

Hi!

We do not have such list, since deeper data details forwarded "as is" by actor from internal Facebook API.

I do not have poll with image sample and hand, please try to scrape poll post with the image by https://apify.com/apify/facebook-posts-scraper - this exact actor capable to process direct post URLs and output is different from what other actors getting from posts feed.

alexey avatar

Hi!

Comments migrated to new data source, full functionality restored with better details.

Sample run: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/CyA4KFAs0jzdvwUUD

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nitin84india

2 months ago

I will check this and will check the other scenarios as well

NI

nitin84india

2 months ago

How can I select the actor build number while doing the scrapping can you give me the python snippet for that as from UI i am not able to select it

alexey avatar

Hi!

Easiest way to not specify any build, in this case "latest" version will be selected by default. If you absolutely want to use build then add parameter to API call https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#tag/ActorsRun-actor-synchronously/operation/act_runSync_post or https://docs.apify.com/sdk/python/docs/concepts/interacting-with-other-actors#actorcall

alexey avatar

Follow up:

Facebook killed scrolling for root comments over this weekend. Scrolling for replies still works at least partially, up to 100 replies per comment confirmed.

So currently getting max comments per single run is to use "Most relevant" sorting which will bring root comments as top results and then get all nested comments as well, sample: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/3c7zPRoPlsE2aqPys

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