Get Posts from Facebook Pages and Convert them to WordPress XML Import File using Python with Facebook Scraper

FbPage2WordPressXMLImport.py

# source file: https://gist.github.com/chriskyfung/e4c863699223206c23a05eebb89faa13
# last update at 2021-07-17T19:36:05+00:00

from datetime import datetime
from facebook_scraper import get_posts
import urllib

# Parameters
FBPAGE_ID = 'medium'    # e.g. The name of target facebook page
NUMOFPAGES = 3    # How many posts to scrape
EXPORTFILE = '{}-fb-page-export.xml'.format(FBPAGE_ID)    # Output file name, e.g. FB_PAGE_NAME-fb-page-export.xml
TITLELEN = 16    # The limit of the length of post title
CATEGORY = 'Imported from Fb Page'    # Which category that you want the post belongs to when import it to your WordPress
CATEGORY_SLUG = urllib.parse.quote_plus(CATEGORY)
COOKIES = '.cookies.json'    # The file path of your cookies

print(f'Start scraping https://www.facebook.com/{FBPAGE_ID}\n')

fb_posts = get_posts(FBPAGE_ID, pages=NUMOFPAGES, timeout=30, cookies=COOKIES)

print('\nFinish Facebook scrapping\n')

print(f'\nStart convert and output to {EXPORTFILE}\n')

# Write the File Header
x = open(EXPORTFILE, 'w')
x.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>')
x.write(
    '<rss version="2.0" xmlns:excerpt="http://wordpress.org/export/1.2/excerpt/" 	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" 	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" 	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" 	xmlns:wp="http://wordpress.org/export/1.2/">'
)
x.write('<channel><wp:wxr_version>1.2</wp:wxr_version>')

# Process Web Scraping
for idx, post in enumerate(fb_posts):
    # Print essential values to screen
    print('#{}'.format(idx))
    if len(post['text']) > TITLELEN:
      print('title: {}...'.format(post['text'][:TITLELEN]))
    else:
      print('title: {}'.format(post['text']))
    print('fb_url: {}'.format(post['post_url']))
    if post['image']:
        print('image: {}'.format(post['image']))
    if post['images']:
      print('images: {}'.format(post['images']))
    print(post['text'])
    print('wp:post_name: {}'.format(post['post_id']))
    print('wp:post_date_gmt: {}'.format(post['time']))
    print('wp:status: draft')
    # Start writing a post to file
    img_tags = ''
    x.write('<!-- ITEM #{} -->'.format(idx))
    x.write('<item>')
    # Copy the first N letters as the WP post title 
    if len(post['text']) > TITLELEN:
      x.write('<title>{}...</title>'.format(post['text'][:TITLELEN]))
    else:
      x.write('<title>{}</title>'.format(post['text']))
    # Encode the post content and add img tags before the text content if images are present 
    if post['images']:
      for img in post['images']:
        img_tags += '<p><img src="{}"></p>'.format(img)
      x.write(
          '<content:encoded><![CDATA[{}<p>{}</p>]]></content:encoded>'
          .format(img_tags, post['text']))
    else:
      x.write(
          '<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>{}</p>]]></content:encoded>'
          .format(post['text']))
    # Copy the FB post ID as the WP post name
    x.write('<wp:post_name>{}</wp:post_name>'.format(post['post_id']))
    # Copy the FB post date as the WP post date. Use the scrape time as the post datetime if failed to get the time attribute
    post_date = post['time'] if post['time'] else datetime.utcnow().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') 
    x.write('<wp:post_date_gmt><![CDATA[{}]]></wp:post_date_gmt>'.format(
        post_date))
    # Set the post as a draft
    x.write('<wp:status><![CDATA[draft]]></wp:status>')
    # Set allow comments
    x.write('<wp:comment_status><![CDATA[open]]></wp:comment_status>')
    # Clarify its post type
    x.write('<wp:post_type><![CDATA[post]]></wp:post_type>')
    # Assign the category in WordPress
    x.write('<category domain="category" nicename="{}"><![CDATA[{}]]></category>'.format(CATEGORY_SLUG, CATEGORY))
    # Add FB post URL as an XML comment
    x.write('<!-- orig_fb_post_url="{}" -->'.format(post['post_url']))
    x.write('</item>')
    # End a post item

# Write File Footer
x.write('</channel>')
x.write('</rss>')
x.close()

print('\nComplete!')

output_wordpress_xml_sample.xml

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