web scraping facebook python code example
Example: python selenium facebook scraper
import time
import re
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
usr = "<your_facebook_email_address>"
pwd = "<your_facebook_password>"
url = "https://mobile.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156391722455952&id=157851205951"
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/zero/Documents/GitHub/SentimentAnalysis/chromedriver')
driver.get(url)
time.sleep(1)
if driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="viewport"] /div/div[3] /div/div[2]
/div/a'):
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="viewport"] /div/div[3] /div/div[2]
/div/a').click()
elem = driver.find_element_by_id("m_login_email")
elem.send_keys(usr)
elem = driver.find_element_by_id("m_login_password")
elem.send_keys(pwd)
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
hasLoadMore = True
while hasLoadMore:
time.sleep(1)
try:
if driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="viewport"] /div/div[4] /div/div/div/div/div/div[2] /div/div/div[5] /*[@class="async_elem"]
/a'):
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="viewport"] /div/div[4] /div/div/div/div/div/div[2] /div/div/div[5] /*[@class="async_elem"]
/a').click()
except:
hasLoadMore = False
users_list = []
users = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('_2b05')
for user in users:
users_list.append(user.text)
i = 0
texts_list = []
texts = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('_2b06')
for txt in texts:
texts_list.append(txt.text.split(users_list[i]
))
i += 1
comments_count = len(users_list)
for i in range(1, comments_count):
user = users_list[i]
text = texts_list[i]
print("User ",user)
print("Text ",text)