Is there a way to view Facebook posts without an account? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I don't need anyone to tell me that Facebook sucks because I already know that, and I would never use it unless in my country, for reasons unknown to me, public and private institutions use Facebook as a primary method of sharing news, such as schedules or promotions.

I don't have the slightest intention of creating a Facebook account, but as I said, I need to see posts from certain Facebook accounts and every time I go to a Facebook page and scroll for 2 seconds I get a pop-up forcing me to create an account. And as far as I know, there is no sort of Piped front-end for Facebook, I would appreciate any help.

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[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I used to have a burner account and a program that logged in to FB with Selenium and converted certain "pages" into RSS feeds. It worked great when it did, but Facebook has a lot of measures against scraping, and I burned out trying to maintain this.

I don't know a way to read their content without an account, which excludes me from a lot of local events.

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Which reminds me that rss-bridge has a Facebook backend that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't

https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/

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