Facebook

General

Social Network Harvester supports data harvesting on Facebook (facebook.com).

The following is possible with the SNH Facebook module:

FACEBOOK (PERSONAL PROFILE)

• Save group
• Saving the public contact list of a profile
• Save all public contacts 2nd degree
• Update the saved contacts
• Save the public contributions of the Timeline (incl. images, videos, linked YouTube videos, comments, and reactions)
• Saving image galleries
• Save account information (employer, residences, education)

FACEBOOK (PAGES)

• Save the public contributions of the Timeline (incl. images, videos, linked YouTube videos, comments, and reactions)
• Save images from image galleries

FACEBOOK (GROUPS)

• Save group members
• Save group posts

Save Friends

The scraping of the basic data of all those profiles that have a connection to the target profile (friends) as well as those profiles that have a connection with the friends of the target profile is possible here.

SNH offers the following scan options:

• Scan Depth (friends, friends of friends)
• Connection type (friends/ follower)
• Save reactions as friends and other detailed options regarding this
• Save profile pictures of accounts (connections, reactions, comments)
• Update the collected dataset

Friends: https://facebook.com/[UserID1]/friends/

Save group member

The function “Save group member can only be used when you access the group page. Click on the marked icon to download the group members. Please note that the group must either be public or you must be a member of the corresponding group to collect data.

Here you have the exact same options as for the “Save Friends” function. Therefore the options are not listed again here.

Save Postings of a profile, group or page

Timeline scraping process saves public timeline postings of a profile.

General / Groups

• the scope of information to be collected can be specified(e.g. the entire timeline, only recent posts, or only in the specific time period)
• Posting images can be saved
• Posted videos can be saved
• Reactions (e.g. likes) can be saved
• Comments can be saved
• Save profile pictures of accounts that have given reactions can be saved

Save Images of a profile or page

Public photo albums are loaded for the selected accounts. You can select whether the reactions should be saved and which albums are to be saved.

Here you have the options:

• Save or discard reactions to the images
• Save profile pictures of accounts that have given reactions can be saved