Usage

Now that you are all set up, you’re ready to use FacebookPostsAnalysis! Application uses command line interface for its functionality:

analysis [COMMAND] [OPTIONS] [ARGUMENTS]

If you wish to list all of the available options and commands in your command line interface, just type

analysis

or

analysis --help

To get the posts of a Facebook open group/page, you have to use the command get_posts this way:

get_posts

Get posts of the specified group/page.

get_posts [OPTIONS] ENTITY

Options

--until <until>

Date until when to analyse Facebook posts.

--since <since>

Date since when to analyse Facebook posts.

--year <year>

Year to analyse Facebook posts.

Arguments

ENTITY

Required argument

Note

You can choose from two ENTITY arguments: page or group (depends on which you want to analyze).

The command will automatically gather all of the posts data, generate a .csv file containing all of it in a structured, demonstrative way and create a Jupyter Notebook containing the full analysis.

These two files will be located in the analysis folder, named analysis_{id}.csv/ipynb.

Please proceed to Working with the Jupyter Notebook.