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RSS Lemmy Posting Bot from Facebook? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Jimbabwe@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I hate facebook and haven’t used it in years, but I live in a small town where many local events are only discussed on facebook or instagram. I’m wondering if there’s a way to create a niche lemmy community with a bot that regurgitates that content so I’m not out of the loop?

Any repo links or online guides for setting this up? Or maybe Meta’s walled garden is impenetrable to scraping?

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[–] borokov@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I dont know. I also though that, as post are public, it should be easy to scrap them but doesn't seems so. Probably Meta bloc scrapper so that their precious data won't be stolen by AI bots....

I've found a couple of lib to do Facebook bot, but they all require access to admin account.

The good news is that our new public council would like to get rid of MAGAFA. I'm in contact with them, so I hope I'll be able to setup an official solution instead of setting unofficial scrapper 😃