[Air-L] Ideas? extracting posts and responses from a private Facebook group

[Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado]

Hello,  you can scrape the post but take care of being blocked by
Facebook,  if it is a massive quantity of data, if you dont have
programming skills you can use kimono or OutWit pro for this task.
Also be aware of the legal issues related to analyse private data, you can
have the administrators authorization but I dont know if the members of the
group  agree to analyse their post.
Best regards
El 16/11/2015 21:21, "Violeta Carrion" <vdcarrion at gmail.com> escribió:

> If it is private you have no options other than manually.. unless you can
> write some script in Mozilla which would do the repetitive steps for you.
> No API will give you anything whose permissions are not public. In fact,
> even when getting the data from GNIP is not possible.
>
> You would need to be quite creative by using a script that access that data
> from a browser that you have opened.
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Greetings all!
> >
> > I have a colleague with the following query?  Any ideas?
> >
> > I need to find the easiest possible way of extracting posts and
> > responses from a private Facebook group. I am a member of this group
> > and  I have permission from the administrators to access the posts for
> > the purposes of my research. I’ll likely be using NVivo to help
> > qualitatively analyze the posts. But, since I want to extract about a
> > year’s worth of posts and responses, and it’s a fairly busy group, to
> > do this manually is unmanageable.
> >
> > I’m wondering if there’s software out there to help me do this or if
> > there’s a third-party I might be able to hire to help me with this
> > work. The problem seems to stem from the fact it’s a private vs. a
> > public Facebook group.
> >
> > ​Cheerio
> > Tracey​
> >
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