Nick Young

Why not use Facebook's web interface to do this search? For example: https://www.facebook.com/search/groups/?q=games or https://m.facebook.com/search/groups/?q=games&source=filter&isTrending=0&tsid=0.44263932103561143

I meant, why not do it manually in your browser? Do you have hundreds of search terms or something?

Related issue: https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/issues/419

Great - could you please submit a pull request?

How many posts / comments / replies did you scrape? In what timeframe?

You're probably scraping too much too fast. Increase your `time.sleep`. Try one minute per

The scraper uses m.facebook.com. The two domains have different rate limits

Hi @bessiethacow - I don't think you're banned, I just think you're scraping Facebook unauthenticated. This page requires you to be logged in to see posts (try open https://m.facebook.com/MinistryofHealthTT in...

That might be a useful function though, I've added that new functionality in https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/commit/b0acdf28defc5352182d91d056de757638419def

That doesn't sound reasonable for a human to do. See https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/issues/409#issuecomment-907639417