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    Pull all of a friends Facebook posts
  
        
  
    
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  | require 'json' | |
| require 'watir' | |
| require 'seconds' | |
| if ARGS.empty? | |
| warn 'Please provide the Facebook user number and query string that will appear in every post (first name usually works)' | |
| exit | |
| end | |
| b = Watir::Browser.new | |
| b.goto 'https://www.facebook.com/' | |
| b.driver.execute_script( "alert('Please log in')" ) rescue nil | |
| Watir::Wait.until { b.title['Log In'].nil? } | |
| FileUtils.mkdir ARGS.last | |
| (0..Float::INFINITY).each do |n| | |
| month = (Time.now - n.months).strftime '%Y-%m' | |
| warn "Pulling #{month} ..." | |
| query = { | |
| q: ARGS.last, | |
| filters_rp_author: { | |
| name: "author", | |
| args: ARGS.first | |
| }.to_json, | |
| filters_rp_creation_time: { | |
| name: "creation_time", | |
| args: { | |
| start_month: month, | |
| end_month: month | |
| }.to_json | |
| }.to_json | |
| } | |
| b.goto "https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?#{URI.encode_www_form(query)}" | |
| break if b.div(text: /We couldn't find anything for/).exists? | |
| until b.div(text: 'End of Results').exists? | |
| b.divs(text: 'See more').select(&:visible?).map(&:click) rescue nil | |
| b.driver.execute_script( "window.scrollBy(0,document.body.scrollHeight)" ) rescue nil | |
| end | |
| File.open(File.join(ARGS.last, month), 'w') do |file| | |
| b.divs("data-testid" => "results").each do |div| | |
| file.puts div.text | |
| end | |
| end | |
| end | 
  
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