Scraping Spotted: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 04:27, 1 October 2026

1. 1. 1. These are the detailed instructions for how to scrape a story from Facebook Spotted:

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 * You should have the Permalink URL of a Spotted story
 * Open that link using ''browser profile <code>chrome</code> on Tony Laptop Chrome''
-* Load all of the story and all of the comments, waiting for all comments to load. Facebook is slow, so give it plenty of time
+* Load all of the story and all of the comments
-* Click on all the "View Reply" or "View Replies" links to see all aspects of the conversation
+* Click the "Most relevant" dropdown → switch to "All comments"
+* Wait for all comments to load. Facebook is slow, so give it plenty of time
+* Scroll repeatedly in the relevant open tab until all comments are visible
+* Click on all the "View X Replies"
 * Once all replies have loaded and opened, select the entire post and all replies
 * Paste the post to a Google Doc with a descriptive name based on the post
 * Echo the Google doc name and URL to the active agent output space