Facebook Groups Scraper
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Facebook Groups Scraper
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Extract data from one or multiple public Facebook groups. Get group and post URLs, post text, comments, timestamp, likes and comments count, and basic commentator info. Download the data in JSON, CSV, and Excel and use it in apps, spreadsheets, and reports.
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Get a demoMissing author name when sharing from another group
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I'm scraping facebook groups for all information within a post (I have no coding knowledge). When one user in the group has shared another post from another group, the author comes out as the author from the other group.
Example:
In group A, John has shared a post from group B. The author of the post from group B is Chris.
In the scraping results, I only get Chris as an author, John is not mentioned.
For my research, I need both the names. Would you be able to fix this?
nicolaifd
Here's the URL for the run:
https://console.apify.com/view/runs/sKFNGMG0SNq097qVg
I downloaded All fields, still only the original author from the other group show up.
Hi!
In your run there is 75 shared posts: https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/OUWmP8kHn8oprVyl7/items?clean=true&format=json&fields=url,sharedPost and no user for three:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/stortingsvalget2025/permalink/1114334336707579/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/stortingsvalget2025/permalink/1114179370056409/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/stortingsvalget2025/permalink/1113275426813470/
because its political ads
For the rest if "user" object do not have "name" value its because of profile privacy settings and we not getting name from Facebook.
I´m going to close the issue now, but if there would be anything else we could help with, please let us know.
nicolaifd
Hi, Alexey. Thanks for getting back to me. I reopened the issue, as I can see I was unclear and the problem still isn't solved. I'll give you a few more examples from my last run:
https://console.apify.com/view/runs/bvuQRSznrb8aS8hiL
I've attached four screenshots as examples, referenced in parenthesis.
Example 1: Tommy Borgstein has posted in the group (1.1). The post is a reference to another post from the private profile of Rainer Prang. In the run, the author of the post comes out as Rainer Prang (1.2), even though he himself did not post in the group. The name Tommy Bergstein is missing – even from All fields. For this example I'd like All fields to return the following:
- Author: Tommy Borgstein
- Original author: Rainer Prang
Example 2: Per Erik Svelle has posted in the group (2.1). The post is a reference to another post made by Roald Johan Johannessen in the group "Nei til utenlandskabler". In the run, the author comes out as Roald Johan Johannessen (2.2), and only the link to the original group is included, not the name – even in All fields. For this example I'd like All fields to return the following:
- Author: Per Erik Svelle
- Original author: Roald Johan Johannessen
- Original group: Nei til utenlandskabler
Hi!
Thanks a ton for detailed feedback and patience! Fixed in latest build, see sample run https://console.apify.com/view/runs/t1f6eQ46O6UQ4DakB
I´m going to close the issue now, but if there would be anything else we could help with, please let us know.
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