Facebook Comments Scraper

This Apify Actor extracts structured data from comments on specified Facebook posts. It's designed for tasks like social media monitoring, sentiment analysis, and engagement tracking.

Overview

The actor takes one or more Facebook post URLs and returns the associated comments, including text, author details, timestamps, and reactions. It handles the complexities of Facebook's page structure so you can focus on the data.

Key Features

• Multi-Post Scraping: Provide an array of post URLs to scrape comments from multiple sources in a single run.
• Comprehensive Data Extraction: Retrieves:
  • Comment text and unique IDs.
  • Author name, profile URL, and profile picture.
  • Timestamp and direct link to the comment.
  • Reaction counts (like, love, haha, support, etc.).
• Configurable Limits: Optionally set a maximum number of comments to scrape per post.
• Sorting Control: Choose to fetch comments sorted as "relevant" (default), "newest", or "all".

Input/Output

Input Parameters

Configure the actor using these parameters:

Example Input:

{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/examplePage/posts/12345"
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 50
}

Output Data

The actor outputs an array of JSON objects, one for each scraped comment.

Example Output Item:

{
  "commentText": "This is a sample comment.",
  "id": "Y29tbWVudDoxMTg2ODEyNDY5NDgyMjc1XzY2ODE2MzY0NTU0NjI3Mg==",
  "timestamp": 1742045152000,
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NFL/posts/...",
  "author": {
    "name": "Zack Crouch",
    "profilePictureUrl": "https://scontent...jpg"
  },
  "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NFL/posts/...",
  "reactions": {
    "like": 178,
    "love": 8
  },
  "reactionsCount": "186"
}

How to Use

1. Configure: In the Apify console or via API, set your postUrls and any optional parameters (resultsLimit, commentsSortType).
2. Run: Start the actor. You can monitor its progress in the logs.
3. Get Data: Once finished, download the dataset in JSON, CSV, or Excel format from the Apify storage.

Notes & Limitations

• Terms of Service: You must comply with Facebook's Terms of Service when scraping their data.
• Rate Limits: The actor is subject to rate limits. Free users have a daily request cap. Contact Apify for higher or custom limits.
• Data Accuracy: The extraction depends on Facebook's current page structure and the post's privacy settings. Data may be incomplete for some posts.
• Best Used With: For a complete workflow, first use the Facebook Posts Search actor to find posts by keyword, then feed those URLs into this Comments Scraper.