Facebook user scraper returns no results

[GENETAY]

Hello, I have been using your package for the last two days for scrapping twitter and it worked very well!
now, I am trying to scrape facebook and it is apparently not working as smoothly. I get an empty output. Is that normal? I can't find help on the internet.

Here my code:

from snscrape.modules.facebook import FacebookUserScraper,FacebookCommunityScraper
scraper = FacebookUserScraper(username='muppets')
res = scraper.get_items()
list(res)

Output: []

I am using python version 3.8.5
Thank you for your help.

[JustAnotherArchivist]

The Muppets's Facebook page uses the new layout, which isn't supported yet by snscrape because Facebook has been very inconsistent at which layout it returned (cf. #121). It appears that they finally switched everything over by now though based on a small sample, so maybe fixing it in a sane way is finally possible (although working with Facebook always leads to insanity regardless).

[GENETAY]

oh i see.

Thank you for your answer.
I wish i could help to fix that but i feel unconfortable to submit commits to fix it (i am poor skilled at code in general). What i can recommand to you, though, is simply to add a comment in the code to warn the users that read the code that facebook layout is inconsistant, and maybe, you can add images of the layout supported by snscrape.

Thank you for your great job still!
Edouard.

[JonasMonas]

Is there any possibility we might see an update to Facebook scrapper any time soon? :)

[liurich12138]

Try facebook-scraper, but it requires cookies

https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper