Scrape Facebook fanpage without API and get HTML content.

Hello there, the code below can be used to scrape any Facebook fanpage using CURL and there is no API credentials needed. Of course the fanpage has to be public as most are.


<?php
$fanPageName = "DisneyTheLionKing";
$ch = curl_init("http://www.facebook.com/".$fanPageName);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, false );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7");
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$data = curl_exec( $ch );
echo htmlentities($data);


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Output - Not everything pasted here but just to show you.

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en" id="facebook" class="no_js"> <head><meta charset="utf-8" /><meta name="referrer" content="default" id="meta_referrer" /><script>window._cstart=+new Date();</script><script>function envFlush(a){function b(b){for(var c in a)b[c]=a[c]}window.requireLazy?window.requireLazy(["Env"],b):(window.Env=window.Env||{},b(window.Env))}envFlush({"ajaxpipe_token":"AXikncviEy6Po_pv","timeslice_heartbeat_config":{"pollIntervalMs":33,"idleGapThresholdMs":60,"ignoredTimesliceNames":{"requestAnimationFrame":true,"Event listenHandler mousemove":true,"Event listenHandler mouseover":true,"Event listenHandler mouseout":true,"Event listenHandler scroll":true},"isHeartbeatEnabled":true,"isArtilleryOn":false},"shouldLogCounters":true,"timeslice_categories": ... e.t.c


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  1. Bhanu SreeMarch 27, 2020 at 10:33 PM

    Thanks for delivering a good stuff, Explanation is good, Nice Article.
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