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How to Increase the number of returned comments

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Hi @neon-ninja , Good Morning from Algeria; Just would like to know how to set the number of retrieved comment of particular posts? I tried this for post in get_posts("zuck", options={"comments": True,"limit": 13000, "progress": True},cookies="cookies.txt" ): and this for post in get_posts("zuck", options={"comments": 13000, "progress": True}, cookies="cookies.txt" ): but the number of retrieved comments was 5000? is there a limit of facebook-scraper ? Im wondering if you can help??? How can I set a number of retrieved comments? Can I use facebook-scraper in order to collect data in real-time?? Thank you very much in advance!!!

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neon-ninjacommented, Apr 12, 2022

You’re not wrong, this is a limitation of m.facebook.com. Perhaps you could check the total comment count, and only extract comments if it’s increased significantly.

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MatteoSerafinocommented, Apr 6, 2022

Hi @neon-ninja when you say:

It depends what you mean by real-time. You can run it regularly. For example, you could run it every minute to check for new posts. So, near real-time.

How could we do that? As far as I can see the DateTime of comments are not in time order, so a real-time scrape would require a complete scrape and a check for new comments by means of their ID. Am I wrong?

Of course, I refer to posts younger than 24 hours.