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facebook-groups-scrape-posts skill

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Scrapes posts from a Facebook group given a group URL, sort order, and desired count — returns structured post metadata including post_id, permalink, author, timestamp, body text, images/videos, reaction counts, reaction type breakdown, comment count, and share count. Use when: user wants to scrape/extract Facebook group posts, collect FB group content, harvest group data, get posts from a Facebook group, monitor Facebook group activity, bulk export group posts, facebook groups scraping, facebook-groups-scrape-posts, fetch FB group feed.

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Install the facebook-groups-scrape-posts skill

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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/browser-act/skills.git /tmp/skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/skills/solutions/social-listening/facebook-groups-scrape-posts ~/.claude/skills/facebook-groups-scrape-posts
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The instructions your agent would load

SKILL.md as published, without the frontmatter. Read it on GitHub

Facebook Groups — Scrape Posts

Input: Facebook group URL + sort order + desired count → Output: post list with full metadata (JSON).

Language

All process output to user (progress updates, process notifications) follows the user's language.

Objective

Given a Facebook group URL, scrape N posts sorted by the specified order and return structured metadata for each post.

Prerequisites

  • Target group page is already open in the browser: https://www.facebook.com/groups/{groupslugor_id}
  • Already logged into Facebook (user avatar, Messenger icon, and notification bell visible in the top-right corner)

Pre-execution Checks

1. Tool Readiness

If browser-act has been confirmed available in the current session → skip this step.

Invoke browser-act via Skill tool to load usage. If installation or configuration issues arise, follow its guidance to resolve then retry.

2. Login Verification

If Facebook login status has been confirmed in the current session → skip this step.

Otherwise, navigate to https://www.facebook.com/ and verify login status programmatically:

browser-act navigate 'https://www.facebook.com/'
browser-act wait stable --timeout 15000
browser-act eval "JSON.stringify({user_id: document.cookie.match(/c_user=(\d+)/)?.[1] || '0', USER_ID: (()=>{try{return require('CurrentUserInitialData').USER_ID;}catch(e){return '0';}})()})"

Verdict:

  • userid is a non-empty numeric string (e.g., "61560817072276"), or USERID !== "0" → logged in, continue
  • userid === null or USERID === "0" → not logged in; assist user: run browser-act browser open {browser_id} https://www.facebook.com/login --headed to open a headed window so the user can sign in manually (Stealth normal mode persists cookies — one login is reusable)

Facebook may clear cuser mid-session: if GraphQL errors such as fieldexception or missingrequiredvariable_value occur during execution, re-run this login check before assuming the script is broken.

User refuses or cannot log in → terminate execution. Facebook enforces strict restrictions on unauthenticated group access (login modal blocks pagination, feed returns partial data + field_exception); login is a hard prerequisite.

Capability Components

This Skill's operational boundary = what the user can manually do in their browser. It only reads data already displayed to the authenticated user, never bypassing authentication or access controls — equivalent to copy-pasting on the user's behalf. JS code is encapsulated in Python files under the scripts/ directory, invoked via eval "$(python scripts/xxx.py {params})". $(...) is bash syntax; use the bash tool for execution.

API: Scrape group posts (with auto-pagination)

Navigate to the target group page first, then invoke the scrape script (it auto-resolves the numeric group ID from the current page):

browser-act navigate 'https://www.facebook.com/groups/{group_slug_or_id}'
browser-act wait stable --timeout 20000
browser-act eval "$(python scripts/scrape-posts.py --sort CHRONOLOGICAL --count 20)"

Parameters:

  • --sort: Sort order, default CHRONOLOGICAL. See "Enum Parameters" below
  • --count: Desired number of posts, default 20. Script auto-paginates until count is met or feed is exhausted
  • --max-pages: Pagination safety cap, default 100
  • --doc-id: GraphQL persisted query doc_id for GroupsCometFeedRegularStoriesPaginationQuery, default 26577462205242925. Update via this flag if Facebook rotates the version (see "Known Limitations")

Output example:

{
  "ok": true,
  "group_id": "2580640642080467",
  "group_name": "Programmer Humor",
  "sort": "CHRONOLOGICAL",
  "total": 20,
  "posts": [
    {
      "post_id": "4052937798184070",
      "cache_id": "6790541484885792441",
      "id": "UzpfSTEwMDA4ODY4MzIx...",
      "permalink_url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/programmerhumor/posts/4052937798184070/",
      "creation_time": 1772941518,
      "message": "Those were the days my friend ...",
      "author": {
        "id": "100088683215191",
        "name": "Jeff Bramlett",
        "profile_picture": null,
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/JeffieB56"
      },
      "group": {
        "id": "2580640642080467",
        "name": "Programmer Humor",
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/programmerhumor/"
      },
      "reactions": {
        "total": 1,
        "total_formatted": "1",
        "breakdown": [
          { "name": "Haha", "reaction_id": "115940658764963", "count": 1 }
        ]
      },
      "share_count": 0,
      "share_count_formatted": "0",
      "comment_count": 0,
      "media": [
        {
          "__typename": "Photo",
          "id": "938454962453936",
          "photo_image": "https://scon

Video posts include additional fields in media: playableurl (mp4 direct link), playableurl_hd, and thumbnail.

Enum Parameters

[AI] --sort sort order — Facebook accepts the following three values:

  • TOP_POSTS — most relevant (default web sort)
  • CHRONOLOGICAL — newest first (reverse chronological by post time)
  • RECENT_ACTIVITY — most recently active (reverse chronological by latest comment/reaction time)

Values are fixed and validated by argparse choices; no runtime query needed.

Pagination

API Pagination: handled automatically by the script.

  • Pagination parameter: cursor (embedded in GraphQL variables)
  • Type: opaque cursor (server-side state, base64-encoded)
  • Initial value: null (first request)
  • Next page value: data.node.groupfeed.pageinfo.end_cursor
  • Each response returns 3 edges (FB streaming mode ignores client-provided count)
  • Termination: hasnextpage === false, or --count / --max-pages limit reached

Success Criteria

  • ok === true and total >= 1
  • posts[].postid non-null rate = 100% (non-post units such as Section Headers are filtered out by the script)
  • posts[].permalinkurl and posts[].creationtime non-null rate = 100%
  • When using CHRONOLOGICAL sort, creation_time is strictly monotonically decreasing

Known Limitations

  • Public groups only: private groups require membership; returns empty or permission error when not a member
  • No comment body: commentcount returns total count but the group feed GraphQL does not include topcomments content or authors. Facebook places comment data in a separate CommentsRenderer query triggered only when the user clicks "Comments" — fetching comment bodies requires additional per-post_id GraphQL requests (out of scope)
  • docid rotates with Facebook frontend versions**: when the default 26577462205242925 expires (PersistedQueryNotFound or HTTP 404), retrieve a fresh one:
  1. Open any group page while logged in
  2. Scroll down to trigger a new batch of posts
  3. browser-act network requests --filter api/graphql --method POST
  4. Check X-FB-Friendly-Name header on each request; find GroupsCometFeedRegularStoriesPaginationQuery
  5. Extract doc_id from that request's POST body and pass it via --doc-id
  • groupname can be null: parsed from page HTML via heuristic regex; prefer posts[].group.name (more reliable)
  • Localized count fields: reactions.totalformatted and sharecount_formatted format depends on Facebook's UI language (e.g., non-English Facebook UI may return locale-specific number abbreviations instead of "12K")
  • Rapid requests trigger temporary throttling: paginating too fast or calling multiple groups concurrently may return empty responses or temporary bans. Serialize group requests with a 2–5 s sleep between each
  • GraphQL fieldexception / partial edges + errors: almost always caused by session cookie being cleared. Check cuser cookie and require('CurrentUserInitialData').USER_ID — if 0 / null, return to "Login Verification" and re-login; do not attempt to extract data from error responses
  • Author avatar often null: author.profile_picture is frequently unloaded in the group feed default response (Facebook lazy-loads avatars); a separate query is required if avatars are needed

Execution Efficiency

  • Batch orchestration: for small counts, call each group directly; for large counts, write a bash script to loop serially — do not parallelize (prone to anti-scraping triggers). Test with a minimal sample before running the full batch. Add appropriate intervals per rate guidance in "Known Limitations" above
  • Test before batch execution: always test with 1–2 items to verify the script runs correctly before running the full batch
  • Reduce redundant pre-operations: when multiple steps share the same prerequisite state, complete them in batch under that state to avoid repeatedly re-establishing it
  • Error resumption: save results item by item during batch processing; resume from the breakpoint on failure rather than starting over

Experience Notes

Path: {working-directory}/browser-act-skill-forge-memories/facebook-groups-scrape-posts-facebook-groups-scrape-posts.memory.md (working directory is determined by the Agent running the Skill, typically the project root or current working directory)

Before execution: If the file exists, read it first — it records unexpected situations encountered during past executions (e.g., a strategy has become ineffective); adjust strategy order accordingly.

After execution: If an unexpected situation is encountered (strategy became ineffective, page redesigned, anti-scraping upgraded, better path discovered), append a line: {YYYY-MM-DD}: {what happened} → {conclusion}

Normal execution does not write to the file. Do not record which groups were used or how many posts were returned — those are task outputs, not experience.

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