fbSimPosts: Show posts of a public Facebook page and stores some...
In morenomancosu/fbSim: Simulates a Facebook user's behavior

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View source: R/fbSimPosts.R

Show posts of a public Facebook page, by returning a data frame in which are collected the text of the post, the unique identifier, an indicator of whether the post is pinned or not, number of reactions, likes, shares, and comments. The function needs a valid profile Chrome folder (see fbSetAccount for more information)

1 2	fbSimPosts(page_id, user_path, n_posts = 25, timeout = c(3, 6), chrome_ver = 77)

`page_id`	The public Fb page to be shown.
`user_path`	The location of the profile folder (folder name included).
`n_posts`	The number of posts to be shown (from the most recent to the oldest)
`timeout`	The system timeout between a browser action and the other. Default is c(3, 6), namely a random time between 3 and 6 seconds.
`chrome_ver`	The installed version of Google Chrome. To get the Chrome version go to chrome://version in Chrome's address bar and use the first two digits - e.g. if the version is 73.0.3683.86, just use 73).

A dataframe with information on public posts.

Moreno Mancosu moreno.mancosu@carloalberto.org, Federico Vegetti vegetti.fede@gmail.com

setFbAccount

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page_id <- "116716651695782" #Silvio Berlusconi's official page ID
user_path <- "C:/Users/Username/Desktop/Chrome_profile"
data <- fbSimPosts(user_path, page_id, n_posts = 10)