Automated-facebook-events-scraping

Automated scraping of facebook events info and images inside Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur, Nepal using beautifulsoup and selenium through eventScrape.py. A csv file with events info and a folder with images will be created as output in the script's directory

General requirements

• Python >=3.6
• pip

Installation

0. (Optional) Setup venv

python -m venv ./.venv/fb-events
source .venv/fb-events/bin/activate

1. Step-by-step setup:

Install python requirements and download geckodriver:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Download and setup geckodriver with setup.sh. E.g.,

sh setup.sh -v 32 -s macos

NOTE: MacOS is uneffected by specified version

Next step is system specific:

[MacOS/Linux]

Copy geckodriver to /usr/bin:

cp ./geckodriver /usr/bin/

[Windows]

Set your path variable to geckodriver.exe as it is described here

Usage

Start script eventSceape.py by specifying year and month. E.g.,

python eventScrape.py --year=2019 --month=1

Script work in background by default. To use it in foreground add argument --visible.

python eventScrape.py --year=2019 --month=1 --visible