Is it possible to get last_post_id from get_profile()?

[Vanguard-52236]

Since we are doing a request to get the profile, is there a way to capture the last post_id from the already loaded page? instead of doing a second request with get_posts() just to check to see if there are any new posts?

[neon-ninja]

Sure, https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/commit/bd7690306d219d15ddc0fdb397ae488de031a923 should do it

[Vanguard-52236]

This works great!

I'm wondering, since you you need to do an extra request anyways to get the whole post, we might as well include the whole thing as top_post? You're thoughts?

        if kwargs.get("allow_extra_requests", True):
            logger.debug(f"Requesting page from: {account}")
            response = self.get(account)
            top_post = response.html.find(
                '[data-ft*="top_level_post_id"]:not([data-sigil="m-see-translate-link"])',
                first=True,
            )
            result["top_post"] = PostExtractor(
                top_post, kwargs, self.get
            ).extract_post()

[Vanguard-52236]

Provided a PR, if you're okay with it.

#761

[neon-ninja]

Sure, https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/commit/e4e1390c4186a0d23270a9d5908f5c7705514203 should do it. Removing source is pretty easy, top_post.pop("source") or del top_post["source"] can do it