Your request couldn't be processed

Hi, I tried to log in with my account but I get the error:

File “…/main.py”, line 4, in <module> set_cookies(“facebook.com_cookies.txt”) File “…\Python38\site-packages\facebook_scraper_init_.py”, line 35, in set_cookies if not _scraper.is_logged_in(): File “…\facebook_scraper\facebook_scraper.py”, line 524, in is_logged_in self.get(‘https://m.facebook.com/settings’) File “…\facebook_scraper\facebook_scraper.py”, line 454, in get raise exceptions.UnexpectedResponse(“Your request couldn’t be processed”) facebook_scraper.exceptions.UnexpectedResponse: Your request couldn’t be processed

I tried another account and the login was successful but when I try to use this code:

set_cookies("facebook.com_cookies.txt") posts = get_posts('nintento', pages=10) print(len(posts))

It return 0

What can I do? Thanks

[NielsOerbaek]

It can’t really find a pattern in these errors. From my quick tests it seems that backing off for a few seconds and then retrying fixes the issue in most cases.

I made a quick-and-dirty recursive hack to add retrying to the FacebookScraper.get method, which seems to work. I haven’t made a pull request yet, since im not 100p certain about the viability of the method.

But here are the changes i made:

• Changed signature of get to def get(self, url, retry_count=0, **kwargs):
• Added the block to line 925:

               elif title.text.lower() == "error":
                    if retry_count < 5:
                        import time
                        logger.warning("Error in request processing, waiting for 10 seconds and then retrying. Retry_count = %d" % retry_count)
                        time.sleep(10)
                        return self.get(url, retry_count=retry_count+1, **kwargs)
                    else:
                        logger.warning("Failed 5 times. Raising an UnexpectedResponse exception.")                  
                        raise exceptions.UnexpectedResponse("Your request couldn't be processed")

[curiousier-george]

My impression is that Facebook is becoming stricter. Maybe they are specifically checking for facebook-scraper? I wonder what others’ experiences are …