My question is "How can I download and store all of the comments from a Facebook post when there are a very large number of comments?"
You may have read recently about Ben Ellis, a teacher in Nashville who passed away from cancer last week. A few days before he died, the entire student body from his school sang for him outside his window. A video of their singing "went viral" after it was re-posted by country singer Tim McGraw. According to his Facebook page, the video has been viewed 32 million times, and has over 48,000 comments.
The reason I'm asking is that Mr. Ellis' mother Colleen is a good friend of ours. She asked if I could find a way to download and save the comments so she can read every single one. The comments are wonderful and have been a source of comfort to her.
I have been able to download the first 5000 comments using the Facebook Graph API Explorer. I did them 500 at a time and then cut and pasted them to a Word file. But when I try to go past comment 5000, I get an error message. I don't know if this is a hard limit in Facebook or if there's a way around it. A little Googling suggests others have been able to access comments beyond 5000, but I can't see how to do it.
I think you can view the post at
https://www.facebook.com/TimMcGraw/videos/10154563454093556/Any help would be greatly appreciated.
