Hi Virginia, You can do that with Rfacebook, if you know R (use the getPage function): https://github.com/pablobarbera/Rfacebook I made a similar thing for Python, but it only lets you start from the beginning and pick your end date, rather than starting in the middle and proceeding backward: https://github.com/dfreelon/fb_scrape_public Best, /DEEN On 1/16/2018 6:02 PM, Virginia Balfour wrote:

Hello

I'd appreciate if anyone knows how to "go to" a specific date on a public Facebook page (i.e. not my own, one belonging to a company). I am researching comments and posts made of the last few years and want to be able to pick where I finished off on the previous day without always having to scroll back from today to the point where I left off. So say I wanted to start my research on Sept 1st 2014 and then be able to work forwards or backwards from there - is there a way to do that? I am in touch with the site's administrators, and although I don't know that they would let me have any kind of admin access - is this what I need? Or is there a way that I can do it independently?

thanks

Ginny

Virginia Balfour

Masters of Philosophy candidate

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