issue with cookies/ facebook language

hello!

I had quite a weird issue: your script would scrape any group, however it would be very slow: in every retrieved post field, a lot of unnecessary text would get sucked in for some reason. For example, in the field post_text, you would get the post text first, but then also the text of the next post and of the next 30 posts, the group name, and pretty much all the text that figures on the webpage (+ a lot of human-unreadable text).

I actually resolved it by going to Facebook and setting the language to english (US) and re-exporting the cookies. I have absolutely no idea why, but it worked!

Thought I’d share! In case anyone runs into the issue.

EDIT:

actually, it did not fix the issue… Still getting a lot of extra text.

As an example: when scraping group 712266335452208, this is the text_post output of the first post:

Please report all non-room related posts

We can keep it clean togetherPlease report all non-room related posts

We can keep it clean together 
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[dr-nathan]

OK, i resolved the issue! It was painfully simple… I reinstalled the requirements.txt and now all runs fine. I was under the impression that cloning from github ran the requirements.txt file automatically? I have issues all the time with using both conda and pip, i guess that didn’t help here.

Regardless, thank you so much for your help!

[dr-nathan]

on my browser, 2 facebook account are remembered. Maybe that causes interference? I will try to remove the cookies, log in and try again. Ill let you know what happens

EDIT: Doesnt solve the issue, unfortunately