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Facebook GraphQL Scraper — Open-Source, Lightweight, No Headless Browser

mhloo — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:32:21 +0000

🚀 I built an open-source Facebook GraphQL scraper — no API key required.

A lot of free, open-source Facebook scrapers are outdated or no longer work reliably. I built facebook-gql-scraper to provide a lightweight alternative for developers who need to work with Facebook data.

It supports scraping:

👤 Profiles and user posts
💬 Comments and reactions
👥 Groups
🛍️ Marketplace
🔎 Search results
📸 Photos, videos, and reels

Install it:

pip install facebook-gql-scraper

Get started:

🔑 Export your Facebook cookies as JSON using Cookie-Editor (Firefox) or EditThisCookie (Chrome), then save as facebook_cookies.json.

import facebook_gql_scraper as fgs

ctx = fgs.FacebookContext(cookies_file="facebook_cookies.json")

user = fgs.Profile.from_username(ctx, username="Ishowspeed")

print(user.name, user.biography, user.birthday)

for post in user.get_posts():
    print(post.id, post.text)

Want to retrieve comments, reactions, photos, videos, or other supported data? There's more to explore.

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/XD-MHLOO/facebook-gql-scraper

It's open source, and feedback, contributions are welcome!

If you're working on Facebook data collection with Python, give it a try and let me know what you think.

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mhloo — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:28:02 +0000

Not Just Scraping: OSINTGraph Turns Your Target’s Instagram Network into an Investigable Graph with an Integrated AI Agent - DEV Community

OSINTGraph — Mapping Instagram for OSINT Investigations What is OSINT? OSINT (aka Open...

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mhloo — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:08:03 +0000

Not Just Scraping: OSINTGraph Turns Your Target’s Instagram Network into an Investigable Graph with an Integrated AI Agent - DEV Community

OSINTGraph — Mapping Instagram for OSINT Investigations What is OSINT? OSINT (aka Open...

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Not Just Scraping: OSINTGraph Turns Your Target’s Instagram Network into an Investigable Graph with an Integrated AI Agent

mhloo — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:58:54 +0000

OSINTGraph — Mapping Instagram for OSINT Investigations

What is OSINT?
OSINT (aka Open Source Intelligence) is about using public information for investigations, analyzing it, and making decisions based on data available in public sources.

Most of us scroll Instagram daily — posting photos, liking memes, dropping a quick comment. It feels casual, but every like, follow, and reply leaves a trail. Put all these together, those trails become a very detailed picture of your habits, interests, and connections.

OSINTGraph, a Python command line tool for OSINT, targets a person's Instagram Network by gathering all Instagram data and maps it visually into a graph database.

^^^Click the video to view

Nodes = profiles, posts, comments
Relationships = follows, likes, replies, comments

With this, you can see at a glance:

Who follows mutually with your target
What post does your target commented on the most?
What are all the public interactions between your target and another person? (commented on each other post? have shared followers? frequent replying on each comment?)
What kind of post your target interacts with most?
... etc.

How it Works

OSINTGraph use a very simple reconnaissance methodology to gather relevant data on your target.

osintgraph discover → gathers all of a target account’s public Instagram data (profile, followers, followees, posts, comments, likes).
osintgraph explore → digs deeper by gathering all the target’s followee accounts. Why? Because followees often reveal interests, communities, or organizations the target connects to (friends, work, school, hobbies, etc.). This builds a wider, richer picture.
Everything is stored in a Neo4j graph database, where you can query and visualize connections.

AI-Powered Analysis

Looking at a huge graph is useful, but analysis can still be overwhelming. That’s why OSINTGraph integrates an AI agent with the command:

osintgraph agent → The agent knows your graph. You can ask it questions in plain English, like:

“Find all comments @john_doe made about ‘party’.”

The agent searches through your graph and shows the answer that matters to you without you manually reading hundreds of comments.

For more advanced investigations, OSINTGraph supports templates. Templates let you design custom AI “brains” using system prompts to analyze data however you need — finding clues, generating insights, summarizing accounts, or running any kind of investigation logic you want.

That’s the simplified explanation of the tool. If you’re interested in more, I recommend checking out the GitHub. Everything is built primarily using free services, so it’s accessible to anyone. (Of course, you’ll need a dummy Instagram account to start — preferably not your main one!).

OSINTGraph is both a tool for investigators and a reminder to be mindful about what we share online.

🔗 OSINTGraph on GitHub