Spider error processing

[lamvien13]

Sorry for this issue, I've tried Google it but still can't find a solution.

when I try follow command
scrapy crawl fb -a email="@gmail.com" -a password="_" -a page="DonaldTrump" -a date="2018-01-01" -a lang="en" -o output.csv

but I got this error
2020-03-27 19:34:59 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 2.0.1 started (bot: fbcrawl)
2020-03-27 19:34:59 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.5.0.0, libxml2 2.9.5, cssselect 1.1.0, parsel 1.5.2, w3lib 1.21.0, Twisted 20.3.0, Python 3.8.2 (tags/v3.8.2:7b3ab59, Feb 25 2020, 22:45:29) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)], pyOpenSSL 19.1.0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019), cryptography 2.8, Platform Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0
2020-03-27 19:34:59 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings:
{'BOT_NAME': 'fbcrawl',
'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 3,
'DUPEFILTER_CLASS': 'scrapy.dupefilters.BaseDupeFilter',
'FEED_EXPORT_ENCODING': 'utf-8',
'FEED_EXPORT_FIELDS': ['source',
'shared_from',
'date',
'text',
'reactions',
'likes',
'ahah',
'love',
'wow',
'sigh',
'grrr',
'comments',
'post_id',
'url'],
'FEED_FORMAT': 'csv',
'FEED_URI': 'DUMPFILE.csv',
'LOG_LEVEL': 'INFO',
'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'fbcrawl.spiders',
'SPIDER_MODULES': ['fbcrawl.spiders'],
'URLLENGTH_LIMIT': 99999,
'USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 '
'(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36'}
2020-03-27 19:34:59 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet Password: 41ca2711c3d9f1ce
2020-03-27 19:34:59 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
'scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FeedExporter',
'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats']
2020-03-27 19:34:59 [fb] INFO: Email and password provided, will be used to log in
2020-03-27 19:34:59 [fb] INFO: Date attribute provided, fbcrawl will stop crawling at 2018-01-01
2020-03-27 19:34:59 [fb] INFO: Language attribute recognized, using "en" for the facebook interface
2020-03-27 19:35:00 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened
2020-03-27 19:35:00 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2020-03-27 19:35:00 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023
2020-03-27 19:35:07 [fb] INFO: Going through the "save-device" checkpoint
2020-03-27 19:35:15 [fb] INFO: Scraping facebook page https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump
2020-03-27 19:35:18 [scrapy.core.scraper] ERROR: Spider error processing <GET https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump> (referer: https://mbasic.facebook.com/?_rdr)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\lam vien\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 1418, in _inlineCallbacks
result = g.send(result)
File "c:\users\lam vien\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\downloader\middleware.py", line 42, in process_request
defer.returnValue((yield download_func(request=request, spider=spider)))
File "c:\users\lam vien\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 1362, in returnValue
raise _DefGen_Return(val)
twisted.internet.defer._DefGen_Return: <200 https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump>

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\lam vien\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\scrapy\utils\defer.py", line 55, in mustbe_deferred
result = f(*args, **kw)
File "c:\users\lam vien\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 60, in process_spider_input
return scrape_func(response, request, spider)
File "c:\users\lam vien\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\scraper.py", line 148, in call_spider
warn_on_generator_with_return_value(spider, callback)
File "c:\users\lam vien\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\scrapy\utils\misc.py", line 202, in warn_on_generator_with_return_value
if is_generator_with_return_value(callable):
File "c:\users\lam vien\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\scrapy\utils\misc.py", line 187, in is_generator_with_return_value
tree = ast.parse(dedent(inspect.getsource(callable)))
File "c:\users\lam vien\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\ast.py", line 47, in parse
return compile(source, filename, mode, flags,
File "", line 1
def parse_page(self, response):
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
2020-03-27 19:35:18 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2020-03-27 19:35:18 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/request_bytes': 3867,
'downloader/request_count': 6,
'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 4,
'downloader/request_method_count/POST': 2,
'downloader/response_bytes': 57037,
'downloader/response_count': 6,
'downloader/response_status_count/200': 4,
'downloader/response_status_count/302': 2,
'elapsed_time_seconds': 18.180147,
'finish_reason': 'finished',
'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 3, 27, 12, 35, 18, 403258),
'log_count/ERROR': 1,
'log_count/INFO': 12,
'request_depth_max': 3,
'response_received_count': 4,
'scheduler/dequeued': 6,
'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 6,
'scheduler/enqueued': 6,
'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 6,
'spider_exceptions/IndentationError': 1,
'start_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 3, 27, 12, 35, 0, 223111)}
2020-03-27 19:35:18 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

as I said, I think the problem start from the line: ERROR: Spider error processing <GET https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump> (referer: https://mbasic.facebook.com/?_rdr)
Could anyone please tell me how to fix it? Many thanks!

[vtgiang141]

I have the same error, do you solve this problem ?

[georgevak]

in my case it returns

(spiders-env) gvak@gvak-H61M-D2-B3:~/spiders-env/fbcrawl-master/fbcrawl/spiders$ scrapy crawl fb -a email="@gmail.com" -a password="*" -a page="DonaldTrump" -a lang="it" -o test.csv
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 2.0.1 started (bot: fbcrawl)
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.5.0.0, libxml2 2.9.10, cssselect 1.1.0, parsel 1.5.2, w3lib 1.21.0, Twisted 20.3.0, Python 3.5.2 (default, Oct 8 2019, 13:06:37) - [GCC 5.4.0 20160609], pyOpenSSL 19.1.0 (OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016), cryptography 2.9, Platform Linux-4.15.0-91-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings:
{'BOT_NAME': 'fbcrawl',
'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 3,
'DUPEFILTER_CLASS': 'scrapy.dupefilters.BaseDupeFilter',
'FEED_EXPORT_ENCODING': 'utf-8',
'FEED_EXPORT_FIELDS': ['source',
'shared_from',
'date',
'text',
'reactions',
'likes',
'ahah',
'love',
'wow',
'sigh',
'grrr',
'comments',
'post_id',
'url'],
'FEED_FORMAT': 'csv',
'FEED_URI': 'test.csv',
'LOG_LEVEL': 'INFO',
'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'fbcrawl.spiders',
'SPIDER_MODULES': ['fbcrawl.spiders'],
'URLLENGTH_LIMIT': 99999,
'USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 '
'(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36'}
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet Password: ee814f34085d5a10
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
'scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
'scrapy.extensions.memusage.MemoryUsage',
'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats',
'scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FeedExporter']
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [fb] INFO: Email and password provided, will be used to log in
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [fb] INFO: Date attribute not provided, scraping date set to 2004-02-04 (fb launch date)
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [fb] INFO: Language attribute recognized, using "it" for the facebook interface
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2020-04-04 21:36:01 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023
2020-04-04 21:36:10 [fb] INFO: Scraping facebook page https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump
2020-04-04 21:36:12 [scrapy.core.scraper] ERROR: Spider error processing <GET https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump> (referer: https://mbasic.facebook.com/home.php?refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fmbasic.facebook.com%2F&_rdr)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/gvak/spiders-env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1418, in _inlineCallbacks
result = g.send(result)
File "/home/gvak/spiders-env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/scrapy/core/downloader/middleware.py", line 42, in process_request
defer.returnValue((yield download_func(request=request, spider=spider)))
File "/home/gvak/spiders-env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1362, in returnValue
raise _DefGen_Return(val)
twisted.internet.defer._DefGen_Return: <200 https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump>

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/gvak/spiders-env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/scrapy/utils/defer.py", line 55, in mustbe_deferred
result = f(*args, **kw)
File "/home/gvak/spiders-env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/scrapy/core/spidermw.py", line 60, in process_spider_input
return scrape_func(response, request, spider)
File "/home/gvak/spiders-env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/scrapy/core/scraper.py", line 148, in call_spider
warn_on_generator_with_return_value(spider, callback)
File "/home/gvak/spiders-env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/scrapy/utils/misc.py", line 202, in warn_on_generator_with_return_value
if is_generator_with_return_value(callable):
File "/home/gvak/spiders-env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/scrapy/utils/misc.py", line 187, in is_generator_with_return_value
tree = ast.parse(dedent(inspect.getsource(callable)))
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/ast.py", line 35, in parse
return compile(source, filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST)
File "", line 1
def parse_page(self, response):
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
2020-04-04 21:36:12 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2020-04-04 21:36:12 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/request_bytes': 2298,
'downloader/request_count': 4,
'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 3,
'downloader/request_method_count/POST': 1,
'downloader/response_bytes': 41733,
'downloader/response_count': 4,
'downloader/response_status_count/200': 3,
'downloader/response_status_count/302': 1,
'elapsed_time_seconds': 11.239089,
'finish_reason': 'finished',
'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 4, 4, 18, 36, 12, 720698),
'log_count/ERROR': 1,
'log_count/INFO': 11,
'memusage/max': 36761600,
'memusage/startup': 36761600,
'request_depth_max': 2,
'response_received_count': 3,
'scheduler/dequeued': 4,
'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 4,
'scheduler/enqueued': 4,
'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 4,
'spider_exceptions/IndentationError': 1,
'start_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 4, 4, 18, 36, 1, 481609)}
2020-04-04 21:36:12 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

any help please?

[georgevak]

my machine is 32 bit, i saw in terminal it says
'USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 '
'(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36'}

does the fbcrawl runs on 32bit machines?

[huynv161846]

I have the same problem. Then I tried to delete space between 'def' and 'parse_page' in 'def parse_page' and add a space character between them later. And it worked with me :)
Also, If you guys have problem with stopping crawler at date or max number of posts crawled in a page, you may want to change '//div[contains(@data-ft,'top_level_post_id')]' to '//article[contains(@data-ft,'top_level_post_id')]'

[proshock1509]

I have the same problem. Then I tried to delete space between 'def' and 'parse_page' in 'def parse_page' and add a space character between them later. And it worked with me :)
Also, If you guys have problem with stopping crawler at date or max number of posts crawled in a page, you may want to change '//div[contains(@data-ft,'top_level_post_id')]' to '//article[contains(@data-ft,'top_level_post_id')]'

Pls help me, i do the same way to you but error still is error. Can you get an email to me pls,
quangvuong98@gmail.com

[talhalatiforakzai]

Open fbcrawl.py and reformat the code ( ctrl+alt+L), this will solve the issue

[natsinger]

It didn't for me, still have the same issue
\softwaer\fbcrawl-master\fbcrawl>scrapy crawl fb -a email="" -a password="" -a page="https://mbasic.facebook.com/groups/1732237450380058?bacr=1590752528%3A2660531107550683%3A2660531107550683%2C0%2C3%3A7%3AKw%3D%3D&multi_permalinks&refid=18" -a date="2004-01-01" -a lang="en" -o test.csv
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 1.8.0 started (bot: fbcrawl)
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.4.1.0, libxml2 2.9.5, cssselect 1.1.0, parsel 1.5.2, w3lib 1.21.0, Twisted 19.10.0, Python 3.6.8 (tags/v3.6.8:3c6b436a57, Dec 24 2018, 00:16:47) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)], pyOpenSSL 19.1.0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019), cryptography 2.8, Platform Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings: {'BOT_NAME': 'fbcrawl', 'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 3, 'DUPEFILTER_CLASS': 'scrapy.dupefilters.BaseDupeFilter', 'FEED_EXPORT_ENCODING': 'utf-8', 'FEED_EXPORT_FIELDS': ['source', 'shared_from', 'date', 'text', 'reactions', 'likes', 'ahah', 'love', 'wow', 'sigh', 'grrr', 'comments', 'post_id', 'url'], 'FEED_FORMAT': 'csv', 'FEED_URI': 'nodular_prorigo_group1.csv', 'LOG_LEVEL': 'INFO', 'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'fbcrawl.spiders', 'SPIDER_MODULES': ['fbcrawl.spiders'], 'URLLENGTH_LIMIT': 99999, 'USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36'}
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet Password: 90bc392de7c46659
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
'scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FeedExporter',
'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats']
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [fb] INFO: Email and password provided, will be used to log in
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [fb] INFO: Date attribute provided, fbcrawl will stop crawling at 2004-01-01
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [fb] INFO: Language attribute recognized, using "en" for the facebook interface
2020-06-07 00:40:06 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened
2020-06-07 00:40:06 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2020-06-07 00:40:06 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023
2020-06-07 00:40:15 [fb] INFO: Going through the "save-device" checkpoint
2020-06-07 00:40:25 [fb] INFO: Scraping facebook page https://mbasic.facebook.com/groups/1732237450380058?bacr=1590752528%3A2660531107550683%3A2660531107550683%2C0%2C3%3A7%3AKw%3D%3D&multi_permalinks&refid=18
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 1, post_date = 2016-05-29
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 2, post_date = 2020-05-28
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 3, post_date = 2019-04-29 15:33:15
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 4, post_date = 2020-05-27
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 5, post_date = 2020-04-25 11:18:11
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 6, post_date = 2020-05-28
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 7, post_date = 2020-05-27 17:00:27
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 8, post_date = 2020-05-28
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: [!] "more" link not found, will look for a "year" link
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [scrapy.core.scraper] ERROR: Spider error processing <GET https://mbasic.facebook.com/groups/1732237450380058?bacr=1590752528%3A2660531107550683%3A2660531107550683%2C0%2C3%3A7%3AKw%3D%3D&multi_permalinks&refid=18> (referer: https://mbasic.facebook.com/?_rdr)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\utils\defer.py", line 102, in iter_errback
yield next(it)
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\offsite.py", line 29, in process_spider_output
for x in result:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\referer.py", line 339, in
return (_set_referer(r) for r in result or ())
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\urllength.py", line 37, in
return (r for r in result or () if _filter(r))
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\depth.py", line 58, in
return (r for r in result or () if _filter(r))
File "C:\Users\nathanaels\Desktop\nat folder\softwaer\fbcrawl-master\fbcrawl\spiders\fbcrawl.py", line 199, in parse_page
if response.meta['flag'] == self.k and self.k >= self.year:
KeyError: 'flag'
2020-06-07 00:41:06 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 14 pages (at 14 pages/min), scraped 2 items (at 2 items/min)
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.extensions.feedexport] INFO: Stored csv feed (8 items) in: nodular_prorigo_group1.csv
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/request_bytes': 26658,
'downloader/request_count': 22,
'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 20,
'downloader/request_method_count/POST': 2,
'downloader/response_bytes': 176073,
'downloader/response_count': 22,
'downloader/response_status_count/200': 20,
'downloader/response_status_count/302': 2,
'elapsed_time_seconds': 80.836427,
'finish_reason': 'finished',
'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 6, 21, 41, 27, 137961),
'item_scraped_count': 8,
'log_count/ERROR': 1,
'log_count/INFO': 23,
'request_depth_max': 5,
'response_received_count': 20,
'scheduler/dequeued': 22,
'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 22,
'scheduler/enqueued': 22,
'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 22,
'spider_exceptions/KeyError': 1,
'start_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 6, 21, 40, 6, 301534)}
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

Any piece of advice?

[talhalatiforakzai]

It didn't for me, still have the same issue
\softwaer\fbcrawl-master\fbcrawl>scrapy crawl fb -a email="" -a password="" -a page="https://mbasic.facebook.com/groups/1732237450380058?bacr=1590752528%3A2660531107550683%3A2660531107550683%2C0%2C3%3A7%3AKw%3D%3D&multi_permalinks&refid=18" -a date="2004-01-01" -a lang="en" -o test.csv
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 1.8.0 started (bot: fbcrawl)
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.4.1.0, libxml2 2.9.5, cssselect 1.1.0, parsel 1.5.2, w3lib 1.21.0, Twisted 19.10.0, Python 3.6.8 (tags/v3.6.8:3c6b436a57, Dec 24 2018, 00:16:47) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)], pyOpenSSL 19.1.0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019), cryptography 2.8, Platform Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings: {'BOT_NAME': 'fbcrawl', 'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 3, 'DUPEFILTER_CLASS': 'scrapy.dupefilters.BaseDupeFilter', 'FEED_EXPORT_ENCODING': 'utf-8', 'FEED_EXPORT_FIELDS': ['source', 'shared_from', 'date', 'text', 'reactions', 'likes', 'ahah', 'love', 'wow', 'sigh', 'grrr', 'comments', 'post_id', 'url'], 'FEED_FORMAT': 'csv', 'FEED_URI': 'nodular_prorigo_group1.csv', 'LOG_LEVEL': 'INFO', 'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'fbcrawl.spiders', 'SPIDER_MODULES': ['fbcrawl.spiders'], 'URLLENGTH_LIMIT': 99999, 'USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36'}
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet Password: 90bc392de7c46659
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
'scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FeedExporter',
'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats']
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [fb] INFO: Email and password provided, will be used to log in
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [fb] INFO: Date attribute provided, fbcrawl will stop crawling at 2004-01-01
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [fb] INFO: Language attribute recognized, using "en" for the facebook interface
2020-06-07 00:40:06 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened
2020-06-07 00:40:06 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2020-06-07 00:40:06 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023
2020-06-07 00:40:15 [fb] INFO: Going through the "save-device" checkpoint
2020-06-07 00:40:25 [fb] INFO: Scraping facebook page https://mbasic.facebook.com/groups/1732237450380058?bacr=1590752528%3A2660531107550683%3A2660531107550683%2C0%2C3%3A7%3AKw%3D%3D&multi_permalinks&refid=18
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 1, post_date = 2016-05-29
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 2, post_date = 2020-05-28
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 3, post_date = 2019-04-29 15:33:15
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 4, post_date = 2020-05-27
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 5, post_date = 2020-04-25 11:18:11
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 6, post_date = 2020-05-28
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 7, post_date = 2020-05-27 17:00:27
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 8, post_date = 2020-05-28
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: [!] "more" link not found, will look for a "year" link
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [scrapy.core.scraper] ERROR: Spider error processing <GET https://mbasic.facebook.com/groups/1732237450380058?bacr=1590752528%3A2660531107550683%3A2660531107550683%2C0%2C3%3A7%3AKw%3D%3D&multi_permalinks&refid=18> (referer: https://mbasic.facebook.com/?_rdr)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\utils\defer.py", line 102, in iter_errback
yield next(it)
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\offsite.py", line 29, in process_spider_output
for x in result:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\referer.py", line 339, in
return (_set_referer(r) for r in result or ())
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\urllength.py", line 37, in
return (r for r in result or () if _filter(r))
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\depth.py", line 58, in
return (r for r in result or () if _filter(r))
File "C:\Users\nathanaels\Desktop\nat folder\softwaer\fbcrawl-master\fbcrawl\spiders\fbcrawl.py", line 199, in parse_page
if response.meta['flag'] == self.k and self.k >= self.year:
KeyError: 'flag'
2020-06-07 00:41:06 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 14 pages (at 14 pages/min), scraped 2 items (at 2 items/min)
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.extensions.feedexport] INFO: Stored csv feed (8 items) in: nodular_prorigo_group1.csv
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/request_bytes': 26658,
'downloader/request_count': 22,
'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 20,
'downloader/request_method_count/POST': 2,
'downloader/response_bytes': 176073,
'downloader/response_count': 22,
'downloader/response_status_count/200': 20,
'downloader/response_status_count/302': 2,
'elapsed_time_seconds': 80.836427,
'finish_reason': 'finished',
'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 6, 21, 41, 27, 137961),
'item_scraped_count': 8,
'log_count/ERROR': 1,
'log_count/INFO': 23,
'request_depth_max': 5,
'response_received_count': 20,
'scheduler/dequeued': 22,
'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 22,
'scheduler/enqueued': 22,
'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 22,
'spider_exceptions/KeyError': 1,
'start_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 6, 21, 40, 6, 301534)}
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

Any piece of advice?

Try this, In function parse_page in fbcrawler change row
for post in response.xpath("//div[contains(@data-ft,'top_level_post_id')]"):
to
for post in response.xpath("//article[contains(@data-ft,'top_level_post_id')]"):

[natsinger]

@talhalatiforakzai i tried but for non public pages (that i am a member of) it doesn't work as before

[Rahulsunny11]

It didn't for me, still have the same issue
\softwaer\fbcrawl-master\fbcrawl>scrapy crawl fb -a email="" -a password="" -a page="https://mbasic.facebook.com/groups/1732237450380058?bacr=1590752528%3A2660531107550683%3A2660531107550683%2C0%2C3%3A7%3AKw%3D%3D&multi_permalinks&refid=18" -a date="2004-01-01" -a lang="en" -o test.csv
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 1.8.0 started (bot: fbcrawl)
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.4.1.0, libxml2 2.9.5, cssselect 1.1.0, parsel 1.5.2, w3lib 1.21.0, Twisted 19.10.0, Python 3.6.8 (tags/v3.6.8:3c6b436a57, Dec 24 2018, 00:16:47) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)], pyOpenSSL 19.1.0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019), cryptography 2.8, Platform Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings: {'BOT_NAME': 'fbcrawl', 'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 3, 'DUPEFILTER_CLASS': 'scrapy.dupefilters.BaseDupeFilter', 'FEED_EXPORT_ENCODING': 'utf-8', 'FEED_EXPORT_FIELDS': ['source', 'shared_from', 'date', 'text', 'reactions', 'likes', 'ahah', 'love', 'wow', 'sigh', 'grrr', 'comments', 'post_id', 'url'], 'FEED_FORMAT': 'csv', 'FEED_URI': 'nodular_prorigo_group1.csv', 'LOG_LEVEL': 'INFO', 'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'fbcrawl.spiders', 'SPIDER_MODULES': ['fbcrawl.spiders'], 'URLLENGTH_LIMIT': 99999, 'USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36'}
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet Password: 90bc392de7c46659
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
'scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FeedExporter',
'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats']
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [fb] INFO: Email and password provided, will be used to log in
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [fb] INFO: Date attribute provided, fbcrawl will stop crawling at 2004-01-01
2020-06-07 00:40:05 [fb] INFO: Language attribute recognized, using "en" for the facebook interface
2020-06-07 00:40:06 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened
2020-06-07 00:40:06 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2020-06-07 00:40:06 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023
2020-06-07 00:40:15 [fb] INFO: Going through the "save-device" checkpoint
2020-06-07 00:40:25 [fb] INFO: Scraping facebook page https://mbasic.facebook.com/groups/1732237450380058?bacr=1590752528%3A2660531107550683%3A2660531107550683%2C0%2C3%3A7%3AKw%3D%3D&multi_permalinks&refid=18
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 1, post_date = 2016-05-29
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 2, post_date = 2020-05-28
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 3, post_date = 2019-04-29 15:33:15
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 4, post_date = 2020-05-27
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 5, post_date = 2020-04-25 11:18:11
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 6, post_date = 2020-05-28
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 7, post_date = 2020-05-27 17:00:27
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: Parsing post n = 8, post_date = 2020-05-28
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [fb] INFO: [!] "more" link not found, will look for a "year" link
2020-06-07 00:40:28 [scrapy.core.scraper] ERROR: Spider error processing <GET https://mbasic.facebook.com/groups/1732237450380058?bacr=1590752528%3A2660531107550683%3A2660531107550683%2C0%2C3%3A7%3AKw%3D%3D&multi_permalinks&refid=18> (referer: https://mbasic.facebook.com/?_rdr)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\utils\defer.py", line 102, in iter_errback
yield next(it)
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\offsite.py", line 29, in process_spider_output
for x in result:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\referer.py", line 339, in
return (_set_referer(r) for r in result or ())
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\urllength.py", line 37, in
return (r for r in result or () if _filter(r))
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\spidermw.py", line 84, in evaluate_iterable
for r in iterable:
File "c:\users\nathanaels\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\scrapy\spidermiddlewares\depth.py", line 58, in
return (r for r in result or () if _filter(r))
File "C:\Users\nathanaels\Desktop\nat folder\softwaer\fbcrawl-master\fbcrawl\spiders\fbcrawl.py", line 199, in parse_page
if response.meta['flag'] == self.k and self.k >= self.year:
KeyError: 'flag'
2020-06-07 00:41:06 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 14 pages (at 14 pages/min), scraped 2 items (at 2 items/min)
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.extensions.feedexport] INFO: Stored csv feed (8 items) in: nodular_prorigo_group1.csv
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/request_bytes': 26658,
'downloader/request_count': 22,
'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 20,
'downloader/request_method_count/POST': 2,
'downloader/response_bytes': 176073,
'downloader/response_count': 22,
'downloader/response_status_count/200': 20,
'downloader/response_status_count/302': 2,
'elapsed_time_seconds': 80.836427,
'finish_reason': 'finished',
'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 6, 21, 41, 27, 137961),
'item_scraped_count': 8,
'log_count/ERROR': 1,
'log_count/INFO': 23,
'request_depth_max': 5,
'response_received_count': 20,
'scheduler/dequeued': 22,
'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 22,
'scheduler/enqueued': 22,
'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 22,
'spider_exceptions/KeyError': 1,
'start_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 6, 21, 40, 6, 301534)}
2020-06-07 00:41:27 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)
Any piece of advice?

Try this, In function parse_page in fbcrawler change row
for post in response.xpath("//div[contains(@data-ft,'top_level_post_id')]"):
to
for post in response.xpath("//article[contains(@data-ft,'top_level_post_id')]"):

it worked for me, thank you.
I saw there a spider for profiles (profiles.py file). Does it work? If yes, what command does start it?

[TheSeedMan]

date="2004-01-01"

I'm having the same issue as those in this post, although the row change from //div to //article hasn't fixed the issue even when I am plugging in a public page. @talhalatiforakzai any help would be much appreciated. I have pasted my terminal output below.

scrapy crawl fb -a email="x" -a password="x" -a page="DonaldTrump" -a lang="it" -o test.csv

`2020-06-12 13:48:56 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 2.1.0 started (bot: fbcrawl)
2020-06-12 13:48:56 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.5.1.0, libxml2 2.9.10, cssselect 1.1.0, parsel 1.6.0, w3lib 1.22.0, Twisted 20.3.0, Python 3.7.7 (default, Mar 10 2020, 15:43:03) - [Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)], pyOpenSSL 19.1.0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020), cryptography 2.9.2, Platform Darwin-18.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
2020-06-12 13:48:56 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings:
{'BOT_NAME': 'fbcrawl',
'DOWNLOAD_DELAY': 3,
'DUPEFILTER_CLASS': 'scrapy.dupefilters.BaseDupeFilter',
'FEED_EXPORT_ENCODING': 'utf-8',
'FEED_EXPORT_FIELDS': ['source',
'shared_from',
'date',
'text',
'reactions',
'likes',
'ahah',
'love',
'wow',
'sigh',
'grrr',
'comments',
'post_id',
'url'],
'LOG_LEVEL': 'INFO',
'NEWSPIDER_MODULE': 'fbcrawl.spiders',
'SPIDER_MODULES': ['fbcrawl.spiders'],
'URLLENGTH_LIMIT': 99999,
'USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 '
'(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36'}
2020-06-12 13:48:56 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet Password: 7e64297a2a66e18d
2020-06-12 13:48:56 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
'scrapy.extensions.memusage.MemoryUsage',
'scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FeedExporter',
'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats']
2020-06-12 13:48:56 [fb] INFO: Email and password provided, will be used to log in
2020-06-12 13:48:56 [fb] INFO: Date attribute not provided, scraping date set to 2004-02-04 (fb launch date)
2020-06-12 13:48:56 [fb] INFO: Language attribute recognized, using "it" for the facebook interface
2020-06-12 13:48:56 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened
2020-06-12 13:48:56 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2020-06-12 13:48:56 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023
2020-06-12 13:49:04 [fb] INFO: Going through the "save-device" checkpoint
2020-06-12 13:49:13 [fb] INFO: Scraping facebook page https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump
2020-06-12 13:49:16 [scrapy.core.scraper] ERROR: Spider error processing <GET https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump> (referer: https://mbasic.facebook.com/?_rdr)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1418, in _inlineCallbacks
result = g.send(result)
StopIteration: <200 https://mbasic.facebook.com/DonaldTrump>

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/utils/defer.py", line 55, in mustbe_deferred
result = f(*args, **kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/core/spidermw.py", line 60, in process_spider_input
return scrape_func(response, request, spider)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/core/scraper.py", line 152, in call_spider
warn_on_generator_with_return_value(spider, callback)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/utils/misc.py", line 202, in warn_on_generator_with_return_value
if is_generator_with_return_value(callable):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scrapy/utils/misc.py", line 187, in is_generator_with_return_value
tree = ast.parse(dedent(inspect.getsource(callable)))
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ast.py", line 35, in parse
return compile(source, filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST)
File "", line 1
def parse_page(self, response):
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
2020-06-12 13:49:16 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2020-06-12 13:49:16 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/request_bytes': 3855,
'downloader/request_count': 6,
'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 4,
'downloader/request_method_count/POST': 2,
'downloader/response_bytes': 49932,
'downloader/response_count': 6,
'downloader/response_status_count/200': 4,
'downloader/response_status_count/302': 2,
'elapsed_time_seconds': 20.065659,
'finish_reason': 'finished',
'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 12, 17, 49, 16, 886653),
'log_count/ERROR': 1,
'log_count/INFO': 12,
'memusage/max': 52617216,
'memusage/startup': 52617216,
'request_depth_max': 3,
'response_received_count': 4,
'scheduler/dequeued': 6,
'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 6,
'scheduler/enqueued': 6,
'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 6,
'spider_exceptions/IndentationError': 1,
'start_time': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 12, 17, 48, 56, 820994)}
2020-06-12 13:49:16 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)`