Help for a beginner?

[dmdennislive]

Hey,

I am VERY new to coding and Python and would love to use this bot, unfortunately I can't get it running yet.

Is it possible that someone is helping me out with a step-by-step guide for dummies on how to run the bot? Or give me a hint on what I'm doing wrong?

Here's what I've done and tried yet:

• Python is installed on my Windows pc
• I downloaded and unpacked the zip
• I opened the folder with the code in Visual Studio Code and installed it with pip install
• I created a new file in the project folder
• I tried running this file with all different kinds of code variations, incl. the one in the documentation

It always gives back "SyntaxError: invalid syntax" or "ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package", no matter what I do.

What I would like to do:

I want to scrape ALL posts of a private Facebook profile, incl. caption, link to the post, number of reactions, publishing date and information about the creative that's being used, if that's possible.

[evildrome]

This is code I first wrote that is basic but works:

-- coding: utf-8 --

"""
Created on Fri Jan 21 09:37:03 2022

@author: wilson

"""

import os
import re
import cgi
import html
import codecs
import time
import datetime
import sys

groupname = "1988673888048607"

path_0 = "C:/scraper/FB Groups/"

path_1 = groupname

myfile = (path_0+path_1+".csv")

file1 = open(myfile, "w", encoding='utf-8')

cookies_file = ("C:/scraper/FB Groups/cookies.json")

if ( not os.path.isfile(myfile)):
print("Error: File not found", myfile)
else:
print("Connecting sqlite database using ...", myfile)

print (".", "\n")
print (".", "\n")

from facebook_scraper import *
from pprint import pprint

enable_logging()
set_cookies(cookies_file)

for post in get_posts(group=groupname, page_limit=200, cookies=cookies_file,
options={"comments": True, "allow_extra_requests": True}):
pprint(post)

file1 = open(myfile, "a", encoding='utf-8')
writer = csv.writer(file1)
for key, value in post.items():
writer.writerow([key, value])

[evildrome]

You'll need to space it properly as I don't know how to post it and keep the spacing.

[evildrome]

I use Anaconda & Spyder but VS ought to work too.

[dmdennislive]

Awesome, I'll look into it, thank you for sharing!!

[evildrome]

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