Approaches for Facebook Bots

I'm making a few Facebook bots in python, and was hoping some of you may care to share your general approaches?

To be clear—I'm not asking for code, nor am I asking for your bots—I'm looking for conceptual approaches, libraries you've found useful, tips maybe, etc..

So far, I've coded a group and group member scraper that works pretty much soley through Graph API, and a messaging bot (which is still having the 'kinks' ironed out of it) which relies on Webdriver almost exclusively, with some usage of Beautifulsoup for locating of elements and etc.

I'm really interested in hearing the approaches that other people are taking.

Feel free to PM if you don't want to post.

Same as you, using API when it's possible, lib for generating user agents (you can find a few of them easily), requests lib mostly for scrapping, and automating browser for other tasks where heavy js scripting is involved.

weedsmoker said:

Same as you, using API when it's possible, lib for generating user agents (you can find a few of them easily), requests lib mostly for scrapping, and automating browser for other tasks where heavy js scripting is involved.

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Thanks for weighing in, I'm pretty new to tackling facebook (and also bots in general) and it's nice to know I'm approaching things as someone more seasoned might.

Also, props again for a post you made awhile back with a coupld spintax-handling functions. That's reeeally been useful.