Facebook group post scraper
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Facebook group post scraper
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Scrape post from facebook groups you are member of and get details such as poster's name, id, url, and post text, reactions and comments count, time, etc
Facebook post/comment timestamp
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This is NOT an issue. I have noticed that there is no proper documentation for this actor, but that some documentation comes out from actual issues. So I thought to add this issue as a way to documenting one of the fields in the data scraped, for those not familiar with the actual Facebook Graph API.
The actor returns also the created_time field of posts, comments, etc. This timestamp is expressed as UNIX timestamp (as per FB Graph API documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/post/).
A UNIX timestamp (also known as POSIX time or epoch time) is a system for tracking time as the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970, at 00:00:00 UTC), not counting leap seconds. This means that a UNIX timestamp is simply an integer (or sometimes a floating-point number if you include fractional seconds) that represents a point in time relative to that starting date.
UNIX timestamp can be converted to actual date and time quite simply:
1import datetime 2 3# Example UNIX timestamp (seconds since epoch) 4unix_timestamp = 1672531199 5 6# Convert timestamp to datetime object (in UTC) 7dt_utc = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(unix_timestamp) 8print("UTC time:", dt_utc) 9 10# For local time, you can use fromtimestamp 11dt_local = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_timestamp) 12print("Local time:", dt_local)
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Created in Aug 2023
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