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The library doesn't seem to extract all the comments

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Hi, I am trying to run the following code and it extracts the comments and replies but the total comment count is larger than the sum of comments and replies extracted. Any reason why this is happening?

for post in get_posts('zongers', cookies='facebook_cookies.txt', extra_info=False, pages=30, options={"comments": True}):
    post_entry = post
    print('Actual num of comments:', post['comments'])
    print('Comments + replies:', len(post['comments_full']) + sum(len(c["replies"]) for c in post["comments_full"]))

Actual num of comments: 608
Comments + replies: 344

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Created 2 years ago
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neon-ninjacommented, Feb 17, 2022

The scraper uses m.facebook.com. It’s limited by the features available on m.facebook.com. You can only see “most relevant” comments on m.facebook.com, not “all comments”. Therefore, the scraper can only see “most relevant” comments.

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wahabaftabcommented, Feb 17, 2022

Thanks that explains it.

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