Comments dictionary changed format

[alvin-leong]

Facebook seems to have removed the "from" property from Comments. This causes a problem for the comment_author field in the comments scraper. Is there a possible workaround?

[iamrajeshchauhan]

That's true me too getting same error

[philippnkling]

For me, the same error occurs. Will someone adapt the existing script in the next weeks?

[matthiasfru]

Just FYI, as of 06/02, getting User information now requires a page access token (you need to be admin of that page afaik).
It appears that this change is permanent for all versions of the API.
see https://developers.facebook.com/ads/blog/post/2017/11/07/marketing-api-v211/
So I guess the "workaround" is to replace

comment_author = unicode_decode(comment['from']['name'])

with

comment_author = None

[leduyloc]

Yes, maybe because many competitive pages try to scan user's information of other pages so facebook locks this feature.

[wachmann]

Thanks, @matthiasfru. That really sucks though :/

[iamrajeshchauhan]

Hi @matthiasfru , Thanks for the twisting the code.

However, is there any other source to get the comment authour name ???