Facebook Posts Scraper

Scrape posts from public Facebook Pages and profiles, plus single post, reel and video URLs, without login. Set a date window and receive a per-URL coverage report describing whether each feed was read completely. Each returned post costs $0.003 ($3 per 1,000); from October 21, 2026, each Page or profile checked also costs $0.003. A $0.00005 start fee applies per run.

What it returns

Each dataset item is one post. Optional fields may be omitted.

Name	Type	Meaning
facebookUrl	string	Supplied Page, profile, post or video URL.
inputUrl	string	Original input URL.
postId	string	Facebook post ID.
url	string	Post permalink.
topLevelUrl	string	URL built from author and post IDs.
time	string	ISO 8601 publication time.
timestamp	number	Publication time, Unix seconds.
text	string or null, optional	Post text; videos can have empty or null text.
user	object	Author's id, name, profileUrl and profilePic; values can be null.
pageName	string	Name from the URL or resolved author name.
facebookId	string or null	Resolved Facebook ID.
likes	number or null	Reaction count.
comments	number or null	Comment count.
shares	number or null	Share count.
topReactionsCount	number or null	Reaction types represented.
viewsCount	number or null, optional	Video views when exposed.
media	array, optional	Photos or videos with available thumbnails and media fields.
sharedPost	object or null, optional	Shared post when exposed.
link	string, optional	Attached URL.
isVideo	boolean, optional	Whether the row contains video.

Example row (shortened text and placeholder details):

{"facebookUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/PAGE","inputUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/PAGE","postId":"POST_ID","pageName":"PAGE","url":"https://www.facebook.com/reel/POST_ID/","time":"2026-10-06T13:22:32.000Z","timestamp":1791292952,"user":{"id":"AUTHOR_ID","name":"Author","profileUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/AUTHOR_ID","profilePic":"https://example.com/profile.jpg"},"likes":62,"comments":1,"shares":3,"topReactionsCount":4,"topLevelUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/AUTHOR_ID/posts/POST_ID","facebookId":"AUTHOR_ID","collaborators":[],"paidPartnership":false,"topComments":[],"text":"Example post text…","media":[{"thumbnail":"https://example.com/thumbnail.jpg","__typename":"Video","url":"https://www.facebook.com/reel/POST_ID/","id":"VIDEO_ID"}],"isVideo":true}

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
startUrls	Required	Array of objects containing a Facebook url.
resultsLimit	20	Maximum posts per URL; integer from 1–10,000.
onlyPostsNewerThan	No lower bound	Inclusive publication-time lower bound.
onlyPostsOlderThan	No upper bound	Exclusive publication-time upper bound.
captionText	false in the input editor	Compatibility boolean; ignored.

The half-open window is [onlyPostsNewerThan, onlyPostsOlderThan). Both bounds accept ISO dates, ISO datetimes or relative values such as 7 days, 12 hours, 2 weeks and 1 month, measured back from run initialization. Dates mean midnight UTC; datetimes without a timezone use UTC. Omit either bound; the lower bound must precede the upper bound. The window also filters single posts and videos.

Reading an older window starts directly at onlyPostsOlderThan, so long backfills can be split into shorter windows without re-reading newer posts.

Last seven days of one Page:

{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA/"}],"onlyPostsNewerThan":"7 days"}

One UTC day from several Pages:

{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA/"},{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanSpaceAgency/"}],"onlyPostsNewerThan":"2026-10-01","onlyPostsOlderThan":"2026-10-02"}

Supported URLs

Example paths use https://www.facebook.com; replace placeholder IDs/codes.

URL form	Example	Notes
Page or profile	/NASA/, /profile.php?id=123, /people/Name/123	Reads the timeline. Numeric paths work.
Post	/NASA/posts/123, /NASA/posts/pfbidCODE, /permalink.php?story_fbid=123&id=456, /photo/?fbid=123	Returns only the requested post; a reel's /posts/ URL also works.
Reel	/reel/123	Likes, comments and shares; viewsCount is null.
Watch	/watch/?v=123	Likes, comments and viewsCount; shares is null. /watch?v=123 also works.
Video	/NASA/videos/123	Same counts as watch; title-slug URLs such as /NASA/videos/title/123 work.
Group post	/groups/GROUP/posts/123, /groups/GROUP/permalink/123	Public groups only.
Share	/share/r/CODE, /share/v/CODE, /share/p/CODE	Follows redirects to the final URL.

Missing count fields are null, never estimated. Absent single-video media fields are also null. An absent post or video returns no row or post charge; its report uses stopReason: "not_found" and status: "unavailable".

How coverage is checked

Each accessible Page or profile feed is read at least twice using different IP addresses, with a third read when the first two differ. In-window results are merged by post ID. The first read stops after six consecutive posts older than the window start; later reads stop after three. Pinned posts and duplicates do not advance that streak.

complete and empty are reported only after two reads agree, or after a third read when the first two differ. All reads are merged by post ID, so a post found by any read is returned.

Status	Meaning
complete	Posts returned; verification finished and traversal reached the date boundary or feed end.
empty	Same traversal conditions, with no posts in the window.
partial	Coverage limited by the post limit, charge cap, free plan limit or failed verification; possibly no rows.
unavailable	Target missing or hidden from logged-out visitors.
failed	Coverage could not be established and no posts were returned.

Single-post URLs use one read. An available post outside the window returns no row and reports empty.

stopReason identifies the boundary (passed_window_start, end_of_feed), limit (max_posts, charge_cap, free_plan_limit), failure (timeout, rate_limited, error) or visibility issue (not_found, private, login_wall, age_gated, restricted, not_visible_or_missing). timeout means the run's time limit was reached before the URL was fully read (or its first page could not be loaded); the posts collected so far are returned.

The default key-value store's OUTPUT record contains the normalized window and reports in targets, with a COVERAGE log line per URL.

Report field	Meaning
walks	Number of reads attempted.
walksDisagreed	Whether the first two reads differed.
postsAddedByVerification	Additional posts found before applying the results limit.
outOfOrderPosts	Older posts followed by an in-window or newer post during the first read.
boundaryPost	First post in the first read's final older streak.
profileCharged	Whether the profile event was charged.
continueOlderThan	Time of the oldest returned post when the date window was not fully read because of a time limit, results limit, charge limit or error. Pass it as onlyPostsOlderThan in the next run to continue; null when the window was read completely.

Reports also include postsEmitted, newestPostAt, oldestPostAt, skipped, feedPagesRead, requestsFailed, retries and errors. Compatibility fields firstPageFetches and firstPageDisagreed mirror walks and walksDisagreed.

Read /records/OUTPUT in the default store or through /v2/actor-runs/{runId}/key-value-store/records/OUTPUT.

Pricing

• post: $0.003 per returned post ($3 per 1,000).
• profile: $0.003 per Page or profile checked, starting October 21, 2026, for complete, empty or partial results. Unavailable and failed URLs are free; single posts and videos pay only the post event.
• apify-actor-start: $0.00005 per run. There is no minimum post count.

From October 21, one profile checked for one day with four posts costs $0.015 in events, plus the start fee. Reaching your charge limit stops emission and crawling with charge_cap; coverage is partial.

Limits

Runs by users on Apify's free plan are limited to 3 URLs and 20 results per run.

Only public content visible without login is available. Hidden or restricted Pages and age-gated posts cannot be returned. Comments and group feeds are not collected; topComments is always empty. Reels that appear on a timeline are returned like other posts.

The Actor keeps a small cache of Page/profile IDs in the runner's account (facebook-posts-scraper-cache), and deleting it only makes the next run slower.

A reel page can report a creation time a few minutes different from the feed's. Refresh counts by matching postId. captionText is accepted but does nothing.

Use via API

Send JSON to the synchronous dataset-items endpoint:

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/LordFloofington~facebook-posts-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA/"}],"onlyPostsNewerThan":"7 days","resultsLimit":20}'

Compliance

Users are responsible for complying with Facebook's terms and applicable law when using this Actor.