4SCRAPING YOUR OWN FACEBOOK DATA
Social media is becoming a digital vault for our lives and our memories; its servers store a history of our behavior that allows us to remember important events with incredible precision. A number of social media platforms allow us to download archives of our social media history as data files or HTML web pages. These archives may contain posts from our Facebook timelines, messages we send to each other, or every tweet we’ve ever posted.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use Python to get data from our downloadable Facebook archives using an automated scraper. The scraper goes through each HTML element that ...
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