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Scaling Social Media Scraping Discovery Beyond Hardcoded Search Queries

A developer building a Facebook post scraper for niche-topic data collection has solved reliable extraction via GraphQL network interception, but the discovery phase is hardcoded to specific search URLs and doesn't scale to broad, country-level topic coverage. They are seeking established architectural patterns beyond brute-forcing keyword permutations for the discovery stage.

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