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Test Case Probe Error. Content Not Found

Open xlonn23 opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Instruction code:

from facebook_scraper import *
get_group_info("latesthairstyles", cookies="cookies.txt")

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\NASA\Desktop\07\2022\test3\main.py", line 2, in <module>
    get_group_info("latesthairstyles", cookies="cookies.txt")
  File "C:\Users\NASA\Desktop\07\2022\test3\venv\lib\site-packages\facebook_scraper\__init__.py", line 143, in get_group_info
    return _scraper.get_group_info(group, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\NASA\Desktop\07\2022\test3\venv\lib\site-packages\facebook_scraper\facebook_scraper.py", line 727, in get_group_info
    resp = self.get(url).html
  File "C:\Users\NASA\Desktop\07\2022\test3\venv\lib\site-packages\facebook_scraper\facebook_scraper.py", line 905, in get
    raise exceptions.NotFound(title.text)
facebook_scraper.exceptions.NotFound: Content Not Found

Process finished with exit code 1

xlonn23 avatar Aug 20 '22 23:08 xlonn23

Solved the problem by using get_page_info instead of get_group_info.

xlonn23 avatar Aug 21 '22 02:08 xlonn23

But I wonder why the get_group_info function does not work. It doesn't matter which page is accessed - the "Content Not Found" error is raised..

xlonn23 avatar Aug 21 '22 04:08 xlonn23

Looks like this group was removed from FB, I've updated the README example in https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/commit/2552c6f0188e9d7de894e0828106e3f011c6b110. This works fine for me with latest master

neon-ninja avatar Aug 31 '22 00:08 neon-ninja