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Hey recently I took on a project where I had to design a website for a school club I belong to. Part of creating this website was enabling people to put content up on it. However due to the club being small and expecting low traffic, it is unlikely that people will regularly update it. To counteract this, I was thinking of creating a program that could read our Facebook group posts and then turn them into content for the website. I would do this by selecting key words that when posted would signify the post being website worthy (probably something like #important or w/e). The only problem is that the only tutorials on how to create such a program are ones that tell you how to get the page's HTML. Not only is that HTML difficult to go through, but you can't even find the posts in the Facebook's HTML. Right now getting all the text on the Facebook page and searching through that would be more effective, but I can't even do that.
This has been extremely confusing and difficult, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
(Note, I am currently using C# to create the program)
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I believe you are looking for this "edge" in the Facebook Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/group/feed. I would probably make a PHP script that requested, filtered, and saved the posts to a file on the server whenever relevant (hourly/daily/whatever).
If this seems unclear to you, please let me know, and I will add more details.
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Germany913 Posts
Which CMS are you using for your website? For example Wordpress has plug-ins to use facebook post as input iirc.
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i have a somewhat related question: how much time would i have to spend designing my own website? do i have to know some code or languages? is there any program that could help me with this even to buy? i am debating since we need to make a website, and wondering if it would be worth it to try and do it myself, since i also have my own blog that does not have a clear design;
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Vancouver14381 Posts
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