I am creating an application that uses the Facebook API to collect publicly available data such as page feeds, post interactions (reactions, comments, etc.). Testing my queries using the Graph APIs allows me to access all this data.
How can I see a lot of potential to pick up valid ideas through collection and analysis for ex. reactions to messages from several pages (I do not own and do not administer these pages), this is what I would like to do and make my models available to the public.
Read platform policies at https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ and several hidden automated data collection conditions at https://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php
as well as cleaning forums, help centers, and stack overflows. I could not find the answer.
By the time of my questions:
Is it legal to collect, store and analyze data (compliance in accordance with sections 2.9 (deletion of data if the user sets it personally) and, of course, the entire platform policy)?
In addition, it is legal to sell ideas collected from the totality of this data (user privacy will not even be remotely compromised).
Do I correctly believe that the automatic data collection policy applies only to programs such as web crawlers (i.e. they do not apply when using the graph API policies)?
Thanks for the help, I know that this is not a development problem, but I did not turn anywhere else. If, however, you can refer to a place / contact on Facebook support where I would have such questions and answer to a request, please do so.
Micah
PS I'm not sure that they use the graphic API, but socialbakers is a comparable service that I would like to provide.
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