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I am learning about social media analysis. I am aware that we can extract the data from twitter using hashtags and API. Ex; If I use #covid19, I will get all tweets that contain this hashtag for the duration that I specify.

Similarly, let's say I visit a public Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/A123

Will I be able to extract only the posts which contain the term covid in their text (from all of their posts) using my API credentials?

Is it possible? I don't like to extract all the posts from the page A123. However, I only wish to extract only the posts which contain the term covid in their text (from all of their posts)

Can you help me on how can it be done?

Any tutorial/tools available to extract this info?

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Yes, its called graph-api.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v7.0/page/feed

You should be aware that scraping data from facebook not using this api its violation of the regulations of fb laws and could you be ended with ban. So be careful.

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  • $\begingroup$ Yeah, I will only be using fb's API credentials. So, you say it's possible to extract specific posts (with a certain keyword) from all the posts present in a timeline. Am I right? btw, upvoted $\endgroup$
    – The Great
    Commented Jul 30, 2020 at 15:06
  • $\begingroup$ can you direct me to a resource on where it shows on how to extract posts which contain specific keywords? $\endgroup$
    – The Great
    Commented Jul 30, 2020 at 15:07
  • $\begingroup$ I cannot use the post id as mentioned in this medium.com/@DrGabrielHarris/…. Hence asking yoyu $\endgroup$
    – The Great
    Commented Jul 30, 2020 at 15:08
  • $\begingroup$ I am thinking that you should start get token : developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens $\endgroup$
    – fuwiak
    Commented Jul 30, 2020 at 15:39

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