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Data scraper for Facebook Pages, and also code accompanying the blog post How to Scrape Data From Facebook Page Posts for Statistical Analysis. Added MySQL support

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Facebook Page Post Scraper

Running the Crawler

1. Change the default values inside 'settings.py'.
2. Run the crawler using ant of these 2 command line options:

    * Scheduled Job:
    
            python crawler_job.py --s   #This option will run the crawler as an "scheduled" job. The crawler will wait for the right schedule time set on the 'settings.py' everyday before it begin crawling.
   
    
    * Unscheduled Job:
        
            python crawler_job.py --u   #This option will run the crawler as an "unscheduled" job. The crawler will immediately run after entering the command.

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