Is there a way of scraping content from Facebook groups?

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Jonathan picture Jonathan · Jan 21, 2012 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

I'd like to get the content from a facebook group since there is a lot of valuable information in there. So is there way, hack or function that you could accomplish this with?

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DMCS picture DMCS · Jan 21, 2012

Simple, do an HTTP POST to the Graph API /{groupId} with your access code and you will get information programmatically. See: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/group/

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