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Discussion on: Python Facebook Posts Scraper with Requests and BeautifulSoup4

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menbiamel • Edited

hello Hugo thanks for sharing this .am working on scraping facebook data but the facebook blocked my account several times . please make a video to help as to see how it works.
how many posts does it extract ?

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Hugo Sandoval

The key to avoid being blocked is scrap slowly (about 3-5 between profiles) and use an User Agent like above (an old phone) that don't requires javascript so the detection is harder for Facebook.