Facebook: Scraping Names of Posts

How to?
#1

Hi,

Ive a problem: I want to analyse a facebook-group. In the first step, I want to scrape all the names of the people, who published a Post within the last 12 months. But obviously, the side-elements of the names are not the same; the webscraper cant scrape the text such easy as on other websites. So i checked the side-elements manually. Pls have al look to the screenshot. I need the text of the red frame. I thought about scraping it with a html-selector and a special command. But it did not work. I just dont know how to scrape it. It would be fine if someone could help <3 Thx!

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#2

I need to test it out but I would use element scroll down tied to selector ._1w_m
Set a high delay depending on how far back you need it go

In side the Scroll Selector

Name = ._7tae._14f3._14f5._5pbw
Date = abbr
Content = .userContent

This looks to get the original poster and not the responses that post gets.

#3

Those type of selectors with random characters are likely to fail later, as the site can change the characters at any time. For the name in the red box try:

Type: Element attribute
Element: div[class^='clearfix'] div h5 span span a.profilelink
Attribute name: title

Ref: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp

#4

Thank you! Ill have a look und try it!