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

[Alex Halavais]

If you are handy with python, I'm happy to share some scripts I used
to scrape posts & comments out of a private FB group, but you'll need
to tweak them slightly to your needs. If interested, shoot me a note
and I'll dig up the code.

- Alex

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado
<jorgelsalcedo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> >
>> > Assistant Professor
>> > Critical Media Studies and Big Data
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>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Facebook : groups/statausersgroup/
>> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/statausersgroup/> */raschmeasurement/
>> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/raschmeasurement/>  *
>> groups/systatusersgroup/ <
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// Alexander Halavais, Sociologist, Semiologist, and Saboteur Extraordinaire
// Associate Professor of Social Technologies, Arizona State University
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