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Okay, guys.

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So in the previous section, I said that I couldn't find a way to scrape Facebook or mobile Facebook

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page without having JavaScript enabled, which means that we had to use something like puppeteer a JavaScript

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enabled browser to scrape Facebook at least also the mobile version.

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However, I was in contact with the author on this article and he told me to try it out on Firefox.

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And oddly enough, if you try to go on mobile dot Facebook.com on Firefox, there's no JavaScript.

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So I don't know why.

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Of course they have some kind of reason.

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Maybe Firefox is a different JavaScript engine.

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I don't know, but this page is only pure HTML, CSS.

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There's no JavaScript at all.

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So see we go down to the bottom.

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It's not going to auto load the page because there's no JavaScript that can do it.

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You have to manually press here to see more post and that's really great because that means there's

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way less chance of Facebook detecting that you're scraping the page and you can use something really

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basic, such as request to get the data on the page and scrape it.

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And of course it has its disadvantages.

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Maybe also it might be a little more complex to use requests compared to puppeteer, but let's try and

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see how we can scrape data on Facebook using request now.