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Facebook Page Scraper is a tool for collecting data from public facebook pages. This tool uses Facebook's Graph API to collect data. Using this tool, you can collect posts, comments, likes, shares data from public facebook pages. The collected data is written to a MySQL database. Optionally, the tool allows you to download the data in json format.
This tool is especially built for keeping it running and collecting large amount of historical, current and future data (posts, comments etc.) from multiple public facebook pages. Check config.properties.template file for various configuration options for running the tool.
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Install MySQL server
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Download db.schema.sql, config.properties.template and fb-scraper.jar from [latest release] (https://github.com/yhegde/fb-page-scraper/releases/)
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Create facebook database
CREATE DATABASE facebook
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
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Create tables in facebook database
mysql -u root -pRootPwd facebook < db.schema.sql
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Rename config.properties.template to config.properties, open in a text editor and make relevant changes by following inline instructions
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Start fetching data
java -jar fb-scraper.jar >> log.txt 2>&1 &
Note: Your config.properties and fb-scraper.jar should be located in the same directory
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