# Changelog of Facebook Pages Scraper · No Login · $1.5/1k (`alfalfa/facebook-pages-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/alfalfa/facebook-pages-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/alfalfa/facebook-pages-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-23 (proxy, share links, /p/ URLs, duplicates)

- Runs that use Apify Proxy now always go through the residential proxy group, even when the input selects no group or a different one. Before, an empty group list meant datacenter proxies, which Facebook answers with a login wall or a rate-limit error, so such runs returned nothing. The run log says so in one line.
- No extra cost: you pay per page, and proxy usage is not billed to you.
- Facebook share links of the form `facebook.com/share/<code>/` are now scraped as the page or profile they open. Before, they were skipped as post URLs. `facebookUrl` and `inputUrl` keep the link as given. The page fields come from the page it opens.
- Share links to posts, videos or reels (`/share/p/`, `/share/v/`, `/share/r/`) are still skipped with the existing "not a page" message, and group share links (`/share/g/`) with the group message.
- A share link that does not open a page or profile is treated like any other unusable page URL: it is reported as not usable and not charged, unless `includeFailedPages` is on, which writes and bills the failed row as before.
- Page URLs of the form `facebook.com/p/<Name>-<id>/`, Facebook's address for pages without a username, now work. Before, they were cut to `facebook.com/p` and failed.
- The same page named more than once in different forms (a share link, the vanity URL, the numeric ID, a `/people/` or `/p/` URL) is scraped and charged once. The extra URLs are skipped with a log line. The delivered row carries one of those URLs in `facebookUrl` and `inputUrl`, not necessarily the first.

### 2026-09-17 (prices)

- Prices lowered: $2.50 per 1,000 pages on the free plan, $2.20 / $1.90 / $1.50 on Starter / Scale / Business (was $3.50 / $3.15 / $2.80 / $2.45); the full About text $0.50 per 1,000 pages that have one on every plan (was $2). Page transparency stays at $2 per 1,000. No start fee; the price per page is the final price, platform usage included.

### 2026-09-15 (run log)

- Network error messages in the run log no longer include server addresses. The same applies to `errorDescription` of failed pages in the dataset.

### 2026-09-09

- Every request now gets seven attempts, so a rough proxy minute no longer loses a page.
- Store description and README now name the plain use cases (Facebook page scraper, email extractor, n8n, Make, Zapier, AI agents via MCP).
- A page or profile that Facebook does not show without a login (private profile, restricted page, wrong URL) no longer ends the run as failed: the run finishes with a status message saying which URLs could not be scraped, and nothing is charged for them.
- Pages that come back without their header are fetched again before being given up on, so a one-off bad response does not lose the page.
- The About text and Page transparency downloads are retried once when interrupted, so fewer rows miss them.
- The scraper always uses a residential proxy on the platform, even when the proxy is switched off in the input (Facebook blocks direct requests, so such runs could only fail).
- Small platform hiccups (input download, billing calls) are retried instead of failing the run.

### 2026-09-08

- Proxy handling hardened: the scraper checks its route at start and switches to a backup route by itself if the primary one fails, so runs finish instead of erroring.
- The proxy country picked in the input now applies to the default residential route as well.

### 2026-09-07

- Compatibility check against the official Facebook Pages Scraper schema.
- Full About text added as an add-on that is billed only when a page actually has one.
- Recent posts included at no extra cost, taken from the page itself.
- Duplicate inputs that differ only in capitalisation are now scraped and billed once.
- Eight ready-made example runs published, including bulk email extraction and local business research.

### 2026-09-07 (first release)

- Page and profile details: contact information, likes, followers, rating, price range, opening status, photos and Ad Library identifiers.
- Optional page transparency block with creation date and advertising status.
- Output field names match the official Facebook Pages Scraper, with contact details included rather than sold separately.