Prerequisite
- Python
- Selenium
Walk-through
config.json
{ "facebook": { "user_name": "indiacloudtv2020@gmail.com", "password": "" } }
demo_app_facebook.py
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # Import required package import json def get_user_name_password(): config_data = None with open('config.json') as json_file: config_data = json.load(json_file) return config_data["facebook"] if __name__ == "__main__": print("Web Scrapping Application Started ...") chromedriver_path = r"D:\work\web_scrapping\chromedriver.exe" driver_obj = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver_path) driver_obj.maximize_window() driver_obj.get("https://www.facebook.com") user_detail = get_user_name_password() username_element = driver_obj.find_element_by_id("email") password_element = driver_obj.find_element_by_id("pass") submit_btn_element = driver_obj.find_element_by_id("loginbutton") username_element.send_keys(user_detail["user_name"]) password_element.send_keys(user_detail["password"]) submit_btn_element.click() wait = WebDriverWait(driver_obj, 5) print(driver_obj.title) #profile_name_list = driver_obj.find_elements_by_class_name("profileLink") #for profile_name in profile_name_list: # print("profile_name: " + profile_name.text) driver_obj.get("https://www.facebook.com/groups/214914325234824/") profile_name_list = driver_obj.find_elements_by_class_name("profileLink") wait = WebDriverWait(driver_obj, 15) for profile_name in profile_name_list: print("profile_name: " + profile_name.text) print(profile_name.get_attribute("href")) driver_obj.close() print("Web Scrapping Application Completed.")
Summary
In this article, we have successfully learned how to extract the useful information from Facebook(www.facebook.com) using Web Scraping with Python and Selenium. Please go through all these steps and provide your feedback and post your queries/doubts if you have. Thank you. Appreciated.Happy Learning !!!
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