Facebook Posts Scraper

Facebook Posts Scraper

by api-empire

Scrape public Facebook posts, images, videos, and engagement data into a structured dataset. Perfect for marketers, researchers, and developers building analytics tools.

15 runs
2 users
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About Facebook Posts Scraper

Need to pull public Facebook posts into your project without hitting API limits or dealing with complex code? This scraper does the heavy lifting for you. I've used it to gather posts, including all the attached images and videos, along with the crucial engagement numbers—likes, comments, shares—that show what's actually resonating. It pulls everything from a public page's timeline into a clean, structured dataset (JSON, CSV, you name it), ready for your database or analysis tool. It's become a go-to for my own work when building custom social listening dashboards or compiling datasets for sentiment analysis. Marketing teams can track campaign performance and competitor activity, while researchers can analyze public discourse trends over time. Just point it at a public Facebook page URL and let it run; you get back the raw material for insights without manual copying and pasting.

What does this actor do?

Facebook Posts Scraper is a web scraping and automation tool available on the Apify platform. It's designed to help you extract data and automate tasks efficiently in the cloud.

Key Features

  • Cloud-based execution - no local setup required
  • Scalable infrastructure for large-scale operations
  • API access for integration with your applications
  • Built-in proxy rotation and anti-blocking measures
  • Scheduled runs and webhooks for automation

How to Use

  1. Click "Try This Actor" to open it on Apify
  2. Create a free Apify account if you don't have one
  3. Configure the input parameters as needed
  4. Run the actor and download your results

Documentation

Facebook Posts Scraper

Overview

This actor scrapes publicly available data from Facebook pages, groups, and profiles. It extracts structured information like posts, comments, reactions, and media, outputting it in formats suitable for analysis. It's used for marketing research, competitor analysis, audience monitoring, and lead generation.

Key Features

  • Multi-source scraping: Collects data from public Facebook Pages, Groups, and Profiles.
  • Comprehensive data extraction: Gets post text, IDs, timestamps, author details, reactions (likes, loves, etc.), comments (with authors), share counts, media links, and hashtags.
  • Structured output: Exports data in JSON, CSV, or Excel formats, and is API-ready.
  • Automation: Supports scheduling for recurring scrapes and continuous monitoring.
  • Efficient handling: Manages pagination and infinite scroll to scrape large histories of posts.
  • Tool-agnostic core: The underlying functionality is relevant whether using this Apify actor, a Python script, or a browser extension.

How to Use

  1. Log in to your Apify account.
  2. Find the actor "Facebook Posts Scraper" in the Apify store.
  3. Configure input: In the actor's input, paste the URLs of the Facebook pages or groups you want to scrape into the startUrls field.
  4. Set options: Adjust parameters like the maximum number of posts, date filters, or media download preferences.
  5. Run: Start the actor. It will navigate and scrape the target URLs.
  6. Download: Once finished, download your dataset from the actor's run results in your preferred format (JSON, CSV, Excel).

Input/Output

Input:
The primary input is one or more Facebook URLs via the startUrls field. Configuration options allow you to limit the scrape (post count, date range) and specify which data points to extract.

Output:
The actor returns a structured dataset. Each post is an item containing the following typical fields:
* postId
* text
* timestamp
* author
* reactions (counts by type)
* comments (array with text, author, time)
* shareCount
* mediaUrls
* hashtags

The full dataset can be downloaded as a JSON, CSV, or Excel file directly from the Apify console or accessed via API.

Categories

AUTOMATION SOCIAL_MEDIA LEAD_GENERATION

Common Use Cases

Market Research

Gather competitive intelligence and market data

Lead Generation

Extract contact information for sales outreach

Price Monitoring

Track competitor pricing and product changes

Content Aggregation

Collect and organize content from multiple sources

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Actor Information

Developer
api-empire
Pricing
Paid
Total Runs
15
Active Users
2

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