#Facebook Data Scraping

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How To Scrape Posts From Public Facebook Page In Four Different Steps?

Facebook comprises a vast amount of data to help your business grow. Facebook is the world’s largest social media platform, enabling consumers to connect directly with brands. In this ever-demanding market, competition is getting ferocious day by day. Hence, it is essential to have enough data to lead the competition. Analyzing customer behavior and tracking your competitors as a business owner is crucial. Learning how to scrape Facebook data from Facebook page is essential in such an instance. This blog will provide a step-by-step guide to scrape posts and comments from a public Facebook page. But before that, let’s understand why you need to scrape Facebook.

Requirements for Scraping Facebook

Having more than 2.80 billion monthly users, Facebook is a perfect place to share and discuss news, watch videos, enjoy shopping, and more. A vast portion of data is actionable. You require a Facebook posts scraper to scrape the data for three reasons.

Monitoring public opinion and performing trends is easy with Facebook’s large user base.

It helps create aggregation services, including posts, videos, images, etc., providing unlimited entertainment to prospective users.

Easily connects you with your customers via company-and industry-based Facebook Groups.

Use of Facebook Data Scraping

Facebook Data Scraping is beneficial in multiple ways. It helps in market research, sentiment analysis, and gain insights into customer behavior. Some of its uses are:

Understand your Competitors: Gain detailed insights into your competitors’ opinions by analyzing tone, content, and Facebook page activities.

Analyze Audience Engagement: Monitor the interests, demographics, and behaviors of any group using customer engagement metrics, like shares, comments, and reactions.

Identify Trends and Find Pain Points: Apply social listening to understand the Facebook Page audience and generate content that can easily resonate with them.

Create Targeted Advertising: Use the Facebook posts data scraping services to analyze it across interests, demographics, and community engagement metrics. Use this data to generate a powerful advertising campaign and target the right audience.

List of Data Fields

Posts URL

Post Text

Timestamp

Number of Likes

Comments

Share

Profile Information

Page URL

Steps to Scrape Facebook Posts

Step 1: Find Facebook Posts Scraper

We offer the best social media app data scraping service. Go to the iWeb Data Scraping and search for the Facebook Posts Scraper. Click on the Try free button to get started.

Step 2: Select Either One or Several Facebook Pages

Step 3: Click on Start Button

Once you are ready with the URL and the number of posts, click the Start button. The Facebook scraper will start data extraction from Facebook pages and posts. You can see the status as ‘Running.’ Wait until the whole process gets complete. After completion, the status will change from Running to Succeeded.

Step 4: Downloading Facebook Posts Data

Now, click on the Export button to download your data. The Humans of New York page will show 20 scraped posts with their complete details.

You can also preview and download the Facebook data in the required format, including JSON, CSV, EXCEL, XML, etc. Each extracted post will contain data for post text, number of likes, shares, URL, comments, etc.

Why Scrape Facebook Posts For your Business Goals?

Facebook Post data collection will help analyze the number of mentions for a company, product, personality, etc. You can easily track how frequently your seasonal product is available in a particular month.

Tracking the needs of your target audience will help you understand the right time to offer products or services to your customers.

What is The Best Method for Scraping Facebook Data?

Scraping Facebook posts data using iWeb Data Scraping is a perfect option, as it follows the complete data collection pipeline and the residential proxy for all Facebook content. Using our proxy configuration, you can save time and resources. It is essential because Facebook’s anti-scraping system depends on multiple factors for bot detection.

For more information, get in touch with iWeb Data Scraping now! You can also reach us for all your web scraping services and mobile data scraping service requirements.

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Facebook Data Scraping | Scrape Facebook Page Followers | Facebook Scraper

[imagineee-123]

(Copied from my clock app post)

As the screenshot says, Meta is datascraping. Everything on Instagram, your faces, private photos, art, EVERYTHING, is being used to train AI, and they took away the option to opt out. there's a form you can fill out to protest this, but you can't opt out. I'm trying to spread word across all platforms so more people can join the boycott!!!! the other solution would be deleting all your data from Instagram and other meta platforms.This is theft of intellectual property and an invasion of privacy.

If you think AI is currently harmless or is only being used to make our lives easier, you're only thinking at the base level. imagine what certain demographics will do when the AI is trained with children's faces. And other communities online are already getting taken over by AI. AI also greatly increases water consumption. For years, deepfakes and AI generated porn of people have been made without permission. Etc, etc. I need you all to critically think about this and the impact it may have on the entirety of the world instead of just brushing it off.

No AI!! If you support AI, don't interact with my page. Don't interact with AI until there's laws and legislation regulating it and protecting everyone.

[aurora1040]

ok we all know FB is bad for oh so many reasons. But despite that, it had some uses that I couldnt deny, like keeping in touch with people you know IRL.

TODAY FB HAS CROSSED A FLIPPING LINE

I was texting a paragraph to my mom and before i hit send, there was a pop up in messenger announcing AI stickers. Ok, i thought, no big deal, sticker suggestions are common and can be triggered by certain words or phrases.

That is NOT WHAT THIS IS.

Messenger's AI stickers *actually READ YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES*. How do I kniw this? The very first sticker suggestion was the entire paragraph i typed out AND DID NOT YET SEND on a background.

I immediately scoured the settings and there is NO WAY TO OPT OUT OF THE AI.... unless you DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT ENTIRELY.

Needless to say, im telling the people i wanna stay in touch with my contact info and that im going to delete my account. That is going way too far and i most DEFINITELY DO NOT CONSENT TO MY PRIVATE MESSAGES BEING READ BY FLIPPING AI.

If you needed a final reason to delete you FB account, this is it. This is your sign.

Delete your Facebook.

[scarletfasinera]

I think my favorite thing about anti-AI people is when they act like AI has only existed for the past year or two and every problem they only just discovered is a brand new thing that just started happening.

[walks-the-ages]

[ID: a link preview of a stock image coffee table with a laptop with the facebook logo on the screen with text on top that says 'anyone who used facebook in the last 16 years can now get settlement money. here's how." end ID]

-USA Residents Only-

Time Sensitive- Apply before August 25th, 2023 (8/25/23)!

Filing a claim takes less than ten minutes, and can be done HERE

Excerpt from article:

Anyone in the U.S. who used Facebook in the last 16 years can now collect a piece of a $725 million settlement by parent company Meta tied to privacy violations — as long as they fill out a claim on a website set up to pay out money to the social network's users. 

The settlement stems from multiple lawsuits that were brought against Facebook by users who claimed that the company improperly shared their data with third-party sources such as advertisers and data brokers. The litigation began after Facebook was embroiled in a privacy scandal in 2018 with Cambridge Analytica, which scraped user data from the site as part of an effort to profile voters.

Meta denied any liability or wrongdoing under the settlement, according to the recently created class-action website. However, the agreement means that U.S. residents who used Facebook between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, can file a monetary claim as long as they do so before August 25, 2023. 

Please reblog to signal boost this! As many people as possible should know about this to make their claim, if you don't do anything you don't get anything. It takes less than ten minutes to file and pick your payment option including pay/pal and ven/mo .

-USA Residents Only-

This ended August 25th, 2023!

[anaquariusfox]

I spent the evening looking into this AI shit and made a wee informative post of the information I found and thought all artists would be interested and maybe help yall?

edit: forgot to mention Glaze and Nightshade to alter/disrupt AI from taking your work into their machines. You can use these and post and it will apparently mess up the AI and it wont take your content into it's machine!

edit: ArtStation is not AI free! So make sure to read that when signing up if you do! (this post is also on twt)

[Image descriptions: A series of infographics titled: “Opt Out AI: [Social Media] and what I found.” The title image shows a drawing of a person holding up a stack of papers where the first says, ‘Terms of Service’ and the rest have logos for various social media sites and are falling onto the floor. Long transcriptions follow.

Instagram/Meta (I have to assume Facebook).

Hard for all users to locate the “opt out” options. The option has been known to move locations.

You have to click the opt out link to submit a request to opt out of the AI scraping. *You have to submit screenshots of your work/face/content you posted to the app, is curretnly being used in AI. If you do not have this, they will deny you.

Users are saying after being rejected, are being “meta blocked”

People’s requests are being accepted but they still have doubts that their content won’t be taken anyways.

Twitter/X

As of August 2023, Twitter’s ToS update:

“Twitter has the right to use any content that users post on its platform to train its AI models, and that users grant Twitter a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to do so.”

There isn’t much to say. They’re doing the same thing Instagram is doing (to my understanding) and we can’t even opt out.

Tumblr

They also take your data and content and sell it to AI models.

But you’re in luck!

It is very simply to opt out (Wow. Thank Gods)

Opt out on Desktop: click on your blog > blog settings > scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle

Out out of Mobile: click your blog > scroll then click visibility > toggle opt out option

TikTok

I took time skim their ToS and under “How We Use Your Information” and towards the end of the long list: “To train and improve our technology, such as our machine learning models and algorithms.”

Regarding data collected; they will only not sell your data when “where restricted by applicable law”. That is not many countries. You can refuse/disable some cookies by going into settings > ads > turn off targeted ads.

I couldn’t find much in AI besides “our machine learning models” which I think is the same thing.

What to do?

In this age of the internet, it’s scary! But you have options and can pick which are best for you!

Accepting these platforms collection of not only your artwork, but your face! And not only your faces but the faces of those in your photos. Your friends and family. Some of those family members are children! Some of those faces are minors! I shudder to think what darker purposes those faces could be used for.

Opt out where you can! Be mindful and know the content you are posting is at risk of being loaded to AI if unable to opt out.

Fully delete (not archive) your content/accounts with these platforms. I know it takes up to 90 days for instagram to “delete” your information. And even keep it for “legal” purposes like legal prevention.

Use lesser known social media platforms! Some examples are; Signal, Mastodon, Diaspora, et. As well as art platforms: Artfol, Cara, ArtStation, etc.

The last drawing shows the same person as the title saying, ‘I am, by no means, a ToS autistic! So feel free to share any relatable information to these topics via reply or qrt!

I just wanted to share the information I found while searching for my own answers cause I’m sure people have the same questions as me.’ \End description] (thank you @a-captions-blog!)

[cheese-water]

The moment when their worlds collide, world peace will finally be restored.

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Use our Facebook Ads Data Scraper to Scrape advertising data from one or multiple Facebook Pages. You can obtain page details, reach estimates, publisher platforms, report count, number of impressions, ad IDs, timestamps, and more.

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Our Facebook Data Scraper helps you extract data from Facebook. Use Facebook Data Scraping Tools to scrape posts, hashtags, etc. in countries like USA, UK, UAE.

Know more : https://www.actowizsolutions.com/facebook-data-scraper.php

[cyberianlife]

Meta has routinely fought data scrapers, but it also participated in that practice itself — if not necessarily for the same reasons. Bloomberg has obtained legal documents from a Meta lawsuit against a former contractor, Bright Data, indicating that the Facebook owner paid its partner to scrape other websites. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the relationship in a discussion with Bloomberg, but said his company used Bright Data to build brand profiles, spot "harmful" sites and catch phishing campaigns, not to target competitors.

[smttechmaster]

[keyofw]

I know it's no longer a novel observation how the entire internet is enshittified now but it's still shocking that so many of the things we depend on had such a sudden and marked decline in quality.

Google results are mostly ads. Facebook is 90% ads, 10% domestic terrorists. Twitter is... well, not Twitter and it's only good for Nazis to yell at each other in the hopes they make .0004 cents per tweet. Instagram is ads. TikTok is misinformation central. YouTube serves forty-seven ads per second of videos watched.

Every news article is behind a paywall, and some of them are just AI-text garbled from someone else's much better article, also behind a paywall.

AI art has made it impossible to find images you want. It's also exploded the use and potential use of misinformation. Your data is now being fed to generative AIs to make cheap slop that only makes information harder to find and source.

Everyone wants you using their app instead of a web browser so that you aren't allowed to block the 3,487 ads per page that have to load.

Amazon is full of fake or low-quality dupes of the things you actually want to buy. Netflix and other streaming services are raising prices, cutting available shows, and erasing the existence of shows in order to avoid paying writers. Art hosting sites such as DeviantArt allow your work to be scraped for NFTs and generative AI without your consent or any form of compensation. Spotify has demonetized over 80% of their tracks and pays the rest astoudingly low, worse than the other streaming services which also underpay.

Everything is a subscription service which means not only are you paying for the same product in perpetuity but you never technically own any tool you use and your right to use it can be revoked at any time. Everything has to be a "smart" product so when the business inevitably folds and/or the servers shut down, your product no longer works. Hope it's not something you need!

Every company no longer accepts phone calls but routes you through a series of automated messages until finally dumping you off to an overworked and underpaid person who has no power to help you. Speaking of phones, you can't use them for calls. There are so many robocallers and scams that no one in their right mind picks up the phone anymore. Texts are going the same way. No one wants to dig through 100 scam messages to find the one from the person they actually want to talk to.

It's all just the inevitable end result of capitalism. It doesn't have to be this way. But there needs to be regulation, and fast, or the "Dead Internet Theory" will no longer be a fringe theory.

[worthwebscraping]

Facebook scraping services are the best way to get relevant data from Facebook. A Facebook data scraping will download all of the data from any Facebook page for you. It means you will have a copy of all the data from the page, including posts, comments, likes, and more. A Facebook scraping is a great way to get data that you can use for marketing campaigns, research projects, and more. With a Facebook scraping service, you will have access to all the data you need without downloading it yourself manually.

If you want to build a presence on Facebook, we scraping services can help you with various services.

The Main Advantages of Facebook Scraping Services

Access to overall Facebook followers and engagement data: This includes the number of followers, shares, and comments for each Facebook page. You can also find out about the most engaging posts and the most engaged followers.

Global reach: With Facebook scraper, you can target users worldwide with your advertising campaigns. The platform allows you to reach any country or language relevant to your business.

Ease of use: Facebook, data scraping services, offer an easy-to-use platform requiring no coding knowledge. You can use the platform on both desktop and mobile devices. It only takes a few simple steps to scrape data from Facebook using Scrapehub.

Full access to data: With Facebook data scraping assistance, you have full access to all the data you scrape from Facebook. It provides you full access to how you use and share the information.

To Gather business details: To explore business one can collect Facebook page data also.

Final words

A Facebook scraping service is a great technology for anyone who needs access to Facebook data but does not want to spend time or resources downloading it. With a Facebook scraping service, you can get all the data you need without doing any work yourself. Our company makes it easy to access the Facebook data you need to develop your marketing strategy. Connect with our team and get professional assistance. We hire proficient scrapers and the best tools to scrape data from all possible sources of Facebook.