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Scrape images from wall photo album on facebook

Is it possible to scrape the pictures and titles of an album of a facebook group? Any ideas or know a good tutorial to get going with this?

Solution

  • It does not look like this is possible using the API.

    You should be able to make a call to /GROUP_ID/albums to get the album_id in the Graph API explorer then make a call to /ALBUM_ID to get the photos.

    Both of these calls to groups I admin result in OAuth Errors: "(#3) App must be on whitelist"

    Whitelisting apps appears to only be possible by a Facebook employee.

    You could try manually scraping the album URL as though you were a browser, but this is not supported and could get you and your group banned.