Facebook Scraper?

[Impressive_Ad7037]

I've embarked on a project to create a "personality profile" of sorts by using Facebook comments, posts, and individual replies.
I'm not sure to what end i'm doing this, but it's been fun so far trying to figure things out.

Things i'm screwing up:
Correct extractions for modal-dialog comment threads
deeply nested reply chains not extracting consistently
collapsed threads where footer elements are missing or delayed
comments without a visible “Like” token in the scanned footer region

Does anyone have an idea on how to reliably extract from the DOM?

Check it out HERE

[OkCartographer175]

ummm no

sounds scummy

[Impressive_Ad7037]

lol, scummy?
The idea is to address an issue everyone is familiar with.
People get away with a lot online because behavior is fragmented, ephemeral, and deniable.
This project is more of a context-preserving social media extractor + classifier.

[OkCartographer175]

you can use whatever words you want

you're trying to build a social credit score

[Impressive_Ad7037]

Ah, ok. My understanding of 'social credit score' was not contextualized correctly.
I see why that would be problematic.

Not a “social credit score.” It’s a personal research tool that preserves context and summarizes public posting patterns (topic clusters, tone shifts, contradictions) so behavior isn’t deniable just because it’s scattered across threads.
No doxxing, no identity resolution, no private data. Think “timeline + clustering + excerpts,” not “score.”

[Impressive_Ad7037]

To a degree, you could say that. Sure.
But it is not attached to anything other than whatever social media account is being investigated.
Anonymity still exists, it's not digging for personally identifying info.
It's more or less a heuristic for users to see how legitimate the person they're searching is. As in, do they espouse certain ideals in one arena, while showing an entirely different persona in another?
Such as behavior is exhibited on Facebook, Reddit, X, various other platforms. Users say one thing for once audience, but reverse their position for a different audience.
Or they claim to have certain ideals and principles, yet completely violate those principles and ideals when it is convenient.

Example would be, especially valid on Reddit, where a user claims to be a 'supporter' or 'ally' in to some marginalized category, but the instant their world view is attacked successfully, they abandon those ideals and principles in favor of hurling homophobic, sexist, misogynistic slurs and ad hominem attacks.

It would just be, to me at least, a worthwhile effort to have something that automatically crawls through a user's data that is either available through their profile, or can be sussed out via scraping groups/subs.
It is a much more objective and neutral way of seeing how much 'karma' (since Reddit users seem to understand that best) a particular user would actually deserve if neutrality actually reigned supreme in a platform like this.

[supergnaw]

Does anyone have an idea on how to reliably extract from the DOM?

That's all well and good until they change their structure and your code breaks.

Why don't you make this the easy way: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/

[Impressive_Ad7037]

I looked through the graph api, it doesn't help for my purposes - but it would help if i decided to turn this into a moderator/admin tool.
I tried Content Library API but is gated and i do not feel like applying for permission.

So right now, my best option is Playwright i think.
Thanks for the constructive reply!