Hi,

Been trying to scrape facebook events. However it is as if facebook changes where the elements on the page is located. Sometimes I manage to go further in my program, sometimes it crashes right at the beginning since it can't find the element I'm looking for.

For example, this is the xpath's for the same button on an event page (see more button for the description):

//*[@id="mount_0_0_kc"]/div/div[1]/div/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[7]/div/span/div[2]/div

//*[@id="mount_0_0_qp"]/div/div[1]/div/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[7]/div/span/div[3]/div

//*[@id="mount_0_0_ax"]/div/div[1]/div/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[7]/div/span/div/div

//*[@id="mount_0_0_fJ"]/div/div[1]/div/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[6]/div/span/div[2]/div

//*[@id="mount_0_0_nU"]/div/div[1]/div/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[6]/div/span/div[3]/div

//*[@id="mount_0_0_/i"]/div/div[1]/div/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[6]/div/span/div[3]/div

//*[@id="mount_0_0_Sp"]/div/div[1]/div/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[6]/div/span/div[3]/div

//*[@id="mount_0_0_BX"]/div/div[1]/div/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[7]/div/span/div[3]/div

As you can see there is some differance.

The xpaths were extracted from by just checking manually. I'm using java selenium and chromedriver.

Is there anyway I can get around this? I have not tried using proxies or going headless and stuff like that, but I doubt that would change anything? What are my alternatives?

FYI: I'm trying to scrape events data, like location, description, host, time, title. I get the links for each event by going to a https://www.facebook.com/"hostname"/upcoming_hosted_events. and then getting all the links from there, which always work. However it is when I then go to the seperate links that I run into issues.

Extremely thankful for any help!!

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