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F@acebook ad scraper

by harrisunderwork
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I decided to make one for myself.

Made one in about 3-4 hours, but now I want more ideas and also thinking about a full fledged service where others can see the ads by entering the keywords.

Comments / suggestions are invited before I start full fledged development.
#f@acebook #scraper
  • Profile picture of the author mothert26
    whoa. that's neat! do you have multiple fb accounts?
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  • Profile picture of the author harrisunderwork
    Not now, but I am planning to make it scalable to atleast 50-100 accounts in parallel, to scrap all possible ads.

    Will try to make an interface to see sample ads by end of this week.
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    • Profile picture of the author celestmark
      Seeing more and more apps/systems centered around such due to the powerful and captive FB audience! I was just viewed a webinar where they were offering their platform for $997 for 12 month access! It was co-sponsed by the FB-Apps guy Joe who just compled a WSO here for his simple iframe type "app".

      I've been looking for a decent bot that will do such! It would seem that the multiple account is a crude way to go if you can get access to the FB ad database you could have a sweet and very lucrative endeavor here!

      I'd suggest a monthly with a client side app that connects to the server doing all the heavy and proxy work... Couldn't swing the full $1K, but would have if it was a decent monthly. They plan on going to $300 p/month and to charge large companies $25K+!

      Check this out: http://www.workingbase.com/project/A...te.899595.html
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    I believe someone did develop one a few years ago, but then received a C&D from Facebook and that ended that venture
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  • Profile picture of the author gmee
    Some people are accusing FB of running ad scams, according to this post. A commenter says that it's an ad scraper.
    http://performinsider.com/2012/07/fa...come-to-light/
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