A stupid script to scrape data from Facebook's Birthdays ICAL. Probably against terms of use. Who cares. Astrology!
Facebook used to have a API, but they scrapped it. So we need to go and do some old-school scraping, zuck style.
Usage Instructions - Scraper Script
Go to the bottom right of the Facebook Events Page. You should see a Birthdays option on the lower right, above the language selector.
- Clone this repo
- Download the ICAL, renaming it to my.ics
- Navigate to the directory in Gitbash or Terminal or whatever.
- Run Python ./script for the named version or Python ./anon_script for the slightly more GDPR compliant version.
- Try and follow through what the script is doing.
- Check results output.csv or output2.csv
Usage Introduction - Calendar to Zodiac
- Run Python ./days_signs
- Try to figure out what the script is doing
- Inspect results in signs.csv
