Learn how to create an automated web scraping bot using Python, Selenium, and Chrome Driver to download entire Facebook image galleries, including tagged and personal photos. Master the process of setting up the development environment, implementing login functionality, navigating through Facebook's interface, and extracting image data. Explore techniques for handling alerts, scrolling through dynamic content, targeting specific HTML elements, and downloading images to a local directory. Gain practical skills in web automation and data extraction, enabling you to adapt the code for future changes in Facebook's structure.
Web Scraping Facebook with Selenium - Automated Bot
Overview
Syllabus
- 2:23 intro
- Install Selenium
- Install Wget
- Download Chrome Driver
- Launch Jupyter Notebook
- Imports and Intro
- Webdriver get command
- Developer Tools Guide
- Login: Username, Password, Submit
- Dismiss Alerts: Stackoverflow
- Shortcut to get Photo Gallery
- Loop over tagged and personal photos
- Scroll to the end of the page: Loop
- Target all anchor elements on the page
- Target specific anchor elements
- Target all image elements on the page
- Target a specific image element
- Create a new directory at the root
- Download all the photos
- Last Automation Step
- Run the bot
- Test the bot
Taught by
Python Simplified
