How would you go about creating a bot to find currently engaged Facebook Reels?

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chamsoi

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Hello.

I'm looking to automate finding Facebook reels that are currently getting high engagement, in the regions that I want.

I'm thinking to use proxies to create & curate the account's algorithm to the kind of posts I want, and have a bot on a browser that scrolls, and takes notes of the posts' stats, most importantly the level of comment engagement that it got in the past x hours. Then it would populate a live list of currently engaged posts.

Does anyone have any suggestions or issues with my approach?
 
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This is a rather clever approach; a bot can handle repetitive tasks for you, allowing you to save time for other things. Do you know how to create a bot?
 
The extend of my technical knowledge is that of basic Claude prompts, which makes me wonder if there would be obstacles presented by the algorithm/anti-abuse measures that I'd need to go around.
 
I'd try it with a couple of accounts first rather than building the whole thing straight away. The tricky part is knowing whether comments are actually coming in recently. A Reel might have loads of comments already but not be getting much attention now.
 
Alice9090 said:
I'd try it with a couple of accounts first rather than building the whole thing straight away. The tricky part is knowing whether comments are actually coming in recently. A Reel might have loads of comments already but not be getting much attention now.
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The thing is, if you scroll down on to a FB reel's comments, you will see when a comment was created. You can count how many comments have been created within the past 'x' hours, and measure comment engagement that way.
 
Alice9090 said:
I'd try it with a couple of accounts first rather than building the whole thing straight away. The tricky part is knowing whether comments are actually coming in recently. A Reel might have loads of comments already but not be getting much attention now.
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Yes, recent interactions should take precedence over comment count in my view. I would focus on monitoring the number of comments made during the past 24–48 hours for this reason.
 
tom.bantan said:
Yes, recent interactions should take precedence over comment count in my view. I would focus on monitoring the number of comments made during the past 24–48 hours for this reason.
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Yes, and I would also analyze that process over several days to see if the level of engagement is sustained or a flash in the pan. This will provide a much clearer indication of whether the Reel is becoming successful.
 
Avoid multiple accounts and proxies as Facebook may flag automated activity track public Reels views, comments shares and posting times while following Meta’s API rules
 
You should try retrieving data from publicly accessible pages and comparing engagement growth over specific time periods. This approach is also more scalable than relying on web-crawling bots.
 
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