Using python 3.7
I would like to access all comments available through the facebook api based on a search criteria. I have created a developer account and started playing around with pyfacebook and facebook-sdk. Currently, I have only been able to access content on pages I have admin rights to, by using this posts and this one.
I haven’t been able to find out what I need to do to effectively search facebook for some terms of interest and collect all the comments for each object that come out.
Example: I would like to search the facebook page for ‘airlines’, and then get all the comments for each of the posts and public groups that are listed. I would be happy with just the comments from the posts if necessary.
I would like to do some sentiment analysis and possibly topic identification.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
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Answers
There is no way to search for posts or comments in general, you can only get posts of specific Pages and search in those on your own – either by using a Page Token or by applying for Page Public Content Access for Pages you do not own.
According to facebook API docs:
More information here