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Facebook Events Scraper

apify/facebook-events-scraper

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Facebook Events Scraper extracts data such as event name, location, description or number of users who are interested. You can use URLs of specific events or come up with search queries and explore pretty much unlimited number of events. Search queries can be combined with various search filters.

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Incorrect URL encoding of & as & causes Facebook event filters to fail

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flingoo opened this issue

Description: I am experiencing an issue with the Facebook events scraper where URLs with query parameters are incorrectly encoded. Specifically, when I pass a URL with filters to the scraper, such as:

https://www.facebook.com/events/search?q=aquila&filters=eyJmaWx0ZXJfZXZlbnRzX2RhdGVfcmFuZ2U6MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcImZpbHRlcl9ldmVudHNfZGF0ZVwiLFwiYXJnc1wiOlwiMjAyNC0xMS0wM34yMDI0LTEyLTAzXCJ9IiwiZmlsdGVyX2V2ZW50c19kYXRlX3JhbmdlOjEiOiJ7XCJuYW1lXCI6XCJmaWx0ZXJfZXZlbnRzX2RhdGVcIixcImFyZ3NcIjpcIjIwMjQtMTEtMTZ%2BMjAyNC0xMS0xN1wifSIsImZpbHRlcl9ldmVudHNfZGF0ZV9yYW5nZToyIjoie1wibmFtZVwiOlwiZmlsdGVyX2V2ZW50c19kYXRlXCIsXCJhcmdzXCI6XCIyMDI0LTExLTExfjIwMjQtMTEtMTdcIn0iLCJycF9ldmVudHNfbG9jYXRpb246MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcImZpbHRlcl9ldmVudHNfbG9jYXRpb25cIixcImFyZ3NcIjpcIjExMDc4NDUzODk0OTEzNVwifSJ9

The scraper transforms the & symbol in the URL into & in the logs and in the final request, like so:

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Alexey Udovydchenko (alexey)

Hi!

Tried to run with you search: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/ZrRyRkLGfffniQ4xU Getting around same amount of events as seen in incognito browser (event https://www.facebook.com/events/943767761131704/ reached by run)

Input URL not malformed, not sure why you see encoded & in UI, in plain text log its correct: https://api.apify.com/v2/logs/ZrRyRkLGfffniQ4xU

Please note that scraping is done for public data, means actor not using Facebook login in any form (can not do that due legal reasons), so you will get less average results than visible to logged Facebook user.

Please check attached screen with scrolling, blocked by login form. "BON JOVI" is https://www.facebook.com/events/943767761131704/ and its in dataset of sample run. Actor trying getting some more events by using up to 5 random IPs however we always expecting data limits.

I´m going to close the issue now, but if there would be anything else we could help with, please let us know.

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101 monthly users
25 stars
>99% runs succeeded
1.7 days response time
Created in Mar 2023
Modified 2 days ago

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