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suddenly I get always facebook_scraper.exceptions.LoginRequired calling get_page_info

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Hi folks, not reporting a bug (at least I don’t think so), just looking for help. I started using facebook-scraper yesterday, and I was able to get results using get_page_info. Today, suddenly, everytime I call that method I get the following exception with every page I try to scrape (even the ones that were working):

  File "C:\ReleWant\git\nj-fb-scraper\venv\lib\site-packages\facebook_scraper\__init__.py", line 98, in get_page_info
    return _scraper.get_page_info(account, **kwargs)
  File "C:\ReleWant\git\nj-fb-scraper\venv\lib\site-packages\facebook_scraper\facebook_scraper.py", line 293, in get_page_info
    resp = self.get(post["post_id"])
  File "C:\ReleWant\git\nj-fb-scraper\venv\lib\site-packages\facebook_scraper\facebook_scraper.py", line 475, in get
    raise exceptions.LoginRequired(
facebook_scraper.exceptions.LoginRequired: A login (cookies) is required to see this page

Is there any reason? Am I doing something wrong?

Using facebook-scraper 0.2.45

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Created 2 years ago
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neon-ninjacommented, Aug 6, 2021

I think they last a year. Yes, multiple accounts might be useful depending on the scale of scraping you’re trying to do

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sla-tecommented, Aug 7, 2021

Ok, it seems like the method get_posts() in the packages __init__.py works differently than the one in the FaceBookScraper class. If we use the method get_posts() after instantiating an instance of the class, the cookies parameter is being ignored.