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17 changes: 9 additions & 8 deletions scraper.py
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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs


Expand Down Expand Up @@ -196,9 +197,9 @@ def _extract_html(bs_data):
def _login(browser, email, password):
browser.get("http://facebook.com")
browser.maximize_window()
browser.find_element_by_name("email").send_keys(email)
browser.find_element_by_name("pass").send_keys(password)
browser.find_element_by_id('loginbutton').click()
browser.find_element(By.XPATH,"/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/form/div[1]/div[1]/input").send_keys(email)
browser.find_element(By.XPATH,"/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/form/div[1]/div[2]/div/input").send_keys(password)
browser.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/form/div[2]/button").click()
time.sleep(5)


Expand Down Expand Up @@ -266,7 +267,7 @@ def extract(page, numOfPost, infinite_scroll=False, scrape_comment=False):
if scrape_comment:
#first uncollapse collapsed comments
unCollapseCommentsButtonsXPath = '//a[contains(@class,"_666h")]'
unCollapseCommentsButtons = browser.find_elements_by_xpath(unCollapseCommentsButtonsXPath)
unCollapseCommentsButtons = browser.find_elements(By.XPATH, unCollapseCommentsButtonsXPath)
for unCollapseComment in unCollapseCommentsButtons:
action = webdriver.common.action_chains.ActionChains(browser)
try:
Expand All @@ -279,7 +280,7 @@ def extract(page, numOfPost, infinite_scroll=False, scrape_comment=False):
pass

#second set comment ranking to show all comments
rankDropdowns = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('_2pln') #select boxes who have rank dropdowns
rankDropdowns = browser.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, '_2pln') #select boxes who have rank dropdowns
rankXPath = '//div[contains(concat(" ", @class, " "), "uiContextualLayerPositioner") and not(contains(concat(" ", @class, " "), "hidden_elem"))]//div/ul/li/a[@class="_54nc"]/span/span/div[@data-ordering="RANKED_UNFILTERED"]'
for rankDropdown in rankDropdowns:
#click to open the filter modal
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pass

# if modal is opened filter comments
ranked_unfiltered = browser.find_elements_by_xpath(rankXPath) # RANKED_UNFILTERED => (All Comments)
ranked_unfiltered = browser.find_elements(By.XPATH, rankXPath) # RANKED_UNFILTERED => (All Comments)
if len(ranked_unfiltered) > 0:
try:
ranked_unfiltered[0].click()
except:
pass

moreComments = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//a[@class="_4sxc _42ft"]')
moreComments = browser.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//a[@class="_4sxc _42ft"]')
print("Scrolling through to click on more comments")
while len(moreComments) != 0:
for moreComment in moreComments:
Expand All @@ -313,7 +314,7 @@ def extract(page, numOfPost, infinite_scroll=False, scrape_comment=False):
# do nothing right here
pass

moreComments = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//a[@class="_4sxc _42ft"]')
moreComments = browser.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//a[@class="_4sxc _42ft"]')

# Now that the page is fully scrolled, grab the source code.
source_data = browser.page_source
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