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v0.1.2

fb reads public groups in full: metadata, posts, and comments.

This release brings groups up to the same depth as pages and posts.

Groups read in full

fb group previously came back with little more than a name and a privacy flag. It now reads the same server-rendered group page everything else uses and returns the group's name, description, cover image, privacy, and URL.

A group feed lists its posts, and each post carries its id, author, date, reaction and comment counts, media, permalink, and text. Comments on a group post come back through the normal post read, so a public group can be walked end to end:

fb group python -o json
fb group python --posts -n 20 -o jsonl
fb post <group-post-url> --comments -o jsonl

Privacy is read from the page itself: an open group reports public, a closed or secret one reports private.

Notes

  • Member count is not part of the crawler surface, so it is only filled in when the group description happens to spell it out; otherwise it is left off.
  • Private groups still exit 4.