Facebook Events Scraper
Hi guys, I am new to Apify and try to get back all future events from some locations
My format I tried is https://www.facebook.com/locationname/events
But there is no result, just a lot of errors in the log
Any idea or suggestion?
Thanks a lot
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Hello @Deleted User ,
May you provide me with the specific url, you are putting into the actor's input so we may investigate this? (you can send it to the PM).
From my understanding, there are four ways how properly set the actor's input for the source of events, and they are all mentioned in the examples for the actor's input:
What you may be looking for could be the last one format. I suggest you to go to https://www.facebook.com/events select a location (or even other parameters) - you need to be logged in, otherwise the selection for location doesn't work, and then copy and paste the current url to the actor's input.
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The issue was with specific facebook pages that does not share their events publicly (without user being logged in). The Facebook Events Scraper is currently not capable to do it. I send suggestions to the developer, because it seems there is a way hot to get these data.
metropolitan-bronze•3y ago
Hi @Pepa J, I was hoping to use the Facebook event scrapper to collect event data from a specific set of Facebook pages that host events. Is there a way to input the facebook page url or the facebook page's event page (facebook.com/pagename/events) and collect those events?
Hello @PaulRice
There are currently issues with this actor, I checked your message in #💻hire-freelancers channel, and you are right for that input the actor currently does not provide any results. I reported it as a bug, hopefully this will be fixed soon.
metropolitan-bronze•3y ago
Awesome, I really appreciate the reply @Pepa J . Do you know if that is a feature on the roadmap for that Actor? If it's coming soon, then I would not want to proceed with building my own version.
I saw there were some changes regarding this issue yesterday, but that is currently only for internal testing version, that still needs to be tested and confirmed. All I can tell is that it is in move now. 🙂
metropolitan-bronze•3y ago
Thanks Pepa!
metropolitan-bronze•3y ago
@Pepa J Is there a bug on the current Facebook Event Scraping actor when using the search endpoint? I'm unable to use the default startUrls. I've submitted a ticket on the Issues tab. Thanks
Hello @Tomas | RootSoft, may you send me the runID to the PM so we may investigate this more?
metropolitan-bronze•3y ago
@Pepa J I've send you a DM
@Tomas | RootSoft The issue was that the users may get into problems due to limited amount of proxies on the free plan (5 default). At this case it happened, that all of the 5 usable proxies were blocked on the facebook's side, which let to no results have been scraped. Temporary solution just for testing the actor would be change the default proxy setting on the Actor's input.