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Need Some Help : Scraping Facebook Groups - gunther - 05-07-2016
hi everyone, just wanna popping up a question.
is it possible to scrape geotargeted facebook groups using scrapebox?
let's say i'm looking for groups with keyword "handycraft" and all the members are japanese.
thanks in advance
p.s : sorry for my english since it is not my native language
RE: Need Some Help : Scraping Facebook Groups - loopline - 05-10-2016
You can scrape data from the groups if the pages are publicly view able without having to be logged in and can be viewed with javascript turned off.
So first find such a page and then turn javascript off in your browser and make sure you are logged out of facebook. Load the page, can you see the info you want?
If so then you can use the custom data grabber to grab that info.
If your just asking if you can find such pages in the first place, then go to google or bing etc.. in your browser. When you find the footprint/query that you can enter into google.com and get back the urls you want, just enter the same thing in Scrapebox and you will get the same results. Google and the rest see Scrapebox as a browser, just like firefox or chrome.