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Facebook Group Scraper - Posts, Comments & Reactions

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Scrape posts from public & private Facebook groups. Extract post text, author info, reactions, comments, shares, images, videos, and group metadata. Cookie auth for private groups. Clean JSON/CSV output. No API key needed.

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Anas Nadeem

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          "cookies": {
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