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July 21, 2015 22:46
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Extract ALL status updates from wall.htm in your downloaded facebook data copy
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| import codecs | |
| import sys | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| wall_file = open(sys.argv[1], "r") | |
| wall = BeautifulSoup(wall_file, 'html.parser') | |
| comment_divs = wall.find_all(class_="comment") | |
| comments = [div.string for div in comment_divs] | |
| out_file = codecs.open(sys.argv[2], "w", "utf-8") | |
| for comment in comments: | |
| out_file.write("%s\n#######\n" % comment) |
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