Scraping Facebook

im working on an automated facebook scraper, it already works. i have several old accounts, and while im logged into one account, im able to scrape any profile. the goal is to collect demographics, likes, and friends of each profile. it seems each account i have can send 400 requests before being banned for 24-48 hours. my solution to this is to create new accounts, and iterate through the accounts until the scrape job is complete. but the new accounts are hitting a 'security checkpoint' after just 5 or 6 requests that i cant get past.

does anyone know what ways i might be able to create an account in such a way that facebook will allow the account the privilege of making those 400 requests instead of getting kicked off for being too new. my only guess would be to create a bunch of accounts and try to use them after some amount of time, and possibly add friends on the account and post updates as well. but thats still a very broad solution that could take an unreasonable amount of time to implement with the possibility of still being the wrong answer.

readallaboutit said:

my only guess would be to create a bunch of accounts and try to use them after some amount of time, and possibly add friends on the account and post updates as well.

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Your guess is right.

after posting this, i immediately realized thats probably the exact right answer. so im working on that as we speak. ill create like 15 full fledged accounts, and i'll auto post updates on like 6 of them, and wait about a month before i use those ones. and i'll try the remaining 9 with more short-term trials.

*Ding ding*

Totally.. You want to make automated SM accounts, you have to "age" them with posts and friend adds, and joins first.

Then, trot them out for their real job, and make sure 1/3 requests you do something "human-y" (like someone elses post, or reshare some crap from a *friend*)

I think I would need to farm Facebook accounts. If I can only get about 400 requests per account (per month? per week?), I'm probably gonna need to send a solid 50k requests or potentially exponentially more.

Buying accounts seemed feasible at first, but now not so much. So I think you're right, I need to automate a Facebook Farm.

you didn't tell us how you run these accounts what type of bots you use , (php/webdriver/custom one)
anyway checkout this discussing related to your question
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/h...-manged-to-get-yt-bot-viewer-working.1059519/

thanks for your input, that link have me good ideas of things to consider.

I'm using python and selenium webdriver. This "Facebook Farming" program is a go. I collected pictures of a few thousand different people. The next step is to crank out several hundred accounts if possible, and add them as friends to each other. It'll be my own closed network of fake ccounts and will do likes, status updates, comments and shares from only within the group.

if I can crank out 500 accounts in a day, and have each account do one or two status updates everyday, and one or two friend requeste per day, Im hoping I can have something that works.

readallaboutit said:

if I can crank out 500 accounts in a day, and have each account do one or two status updates everyday, and one or two friend requeste per day, Im hoping I can have something that works.

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Just one advice run the bots account to serve your business only , don't think sell it as service to earn some crappy gigs

how is it working? are u willing to sell

zombieofzombia said:

how is it working? are u willing to sell

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Familiarise yourself with form rules about who can and cannot sell on here.
If you want to buy anything, open a WTB thread.