Facebook Scraper Pro

Facebook Scraper Pro is a powerful Apify actor designed to extract data from Facebook efficiently. It offers multiple scraping functions to gather data from Facebook searches, profiles, posts, and comments. Below is a detailed guide to help you understand and use this actor effectively.

Key Features

1. Facebook Search Scraper: Searches for specific keywords on Facebook and returns relevant posts.
2. Facebook Profiles Scraper: Extracts detailed information from Facebook profiles, including ID, name, friends count, likes count, location, gender, profile avatar, birthday, and profile posts.
3. Facebook Posts Scraper: Scrapes data from specific Facebook posts, including text, likes, comments, shares, and media.
4. Facebook Comments Scraper: Extracts comments from specific Facebook posts, including comment text, likes, replies, and author details.

Important Notes

• Actor Function: Specifies the scraping function to use (facebook_search_scraper, facebook_profiles_scraper, facebook_posts_scraper, facebook_comments_scraper).
• Rate Limiting: Use appropriate min_wait_time_in_sec and max_wait_time_in_sec to avoid blocking.
• Data Limits: Use the results_limit parameter to control the amount of data scraped.
• Strict Search: Use the strict_search parameter to only retrieve posts containing the exact keyword provided by keyword parameter.

Input Schema

The input schema for the Facebook Scraper Pro actor is as follows:

{
    // enum for "function" ["facebook_search_scraper", "facebook_profiles_scraper", "facebook_posts_scraper", "facebook_comments_scraper"]
    "function": "facebook_search_scraper",
    "filter_by_recent_posts": true, // used in facebook_search_scraper
    "strict_search": false, // used in facebook_search_scraper
    "since": "1d", // used to fetch data in interval time (1d, 7d, 30d)
    "keyword": "BBC", // used in facebook_search_scraper

    "results_limit": 5, // limit number of posts or comments returned
    "min_wait_time_in_sec": 2, // minimum seconds to wait for each cursor.
    "max_wait_time_in_sec": 6, // maximum seconds to wait for each cursor.
    "cookies": [], // Optional Facebook user account cookies for improved scraping reliability and maintainability.
    "fetch_reaction_map": false, // When enabled, fetches reaction breakdown for video posts only.

    "profile_urls": [
        // used in facebook_profiles_scraper
        {
            "url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61568555420777"
        }
    ],
    "post_urls": [
        // used in facebook_posts_scraper
        {
            "url": "https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=918725866988227"
        }
    ],
    "post_urls_for_comments": [
        // used in facebook_comments_scraper
        {
            "url": "https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=918725866988227"
        }
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
}

Output Schema

Facebook Search Scraper, Facebook Profiles Scraper, Facebook Posts Scraper

{
    // "author" only exists in Facebook Profile Scraper Responses
    "author": {
        "user_name": "Chief&Chill",
        "user_id": "61568555420777",
        "user_url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61568555420777",
        "avatar": "https://scontent.fcai20-6.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/326769796_731573711877409_5775268283301149505_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s200x200_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=2d3e12&_nc_ohc=XXAYvfYQ_XgQ7kNvwFiOR3P&_nc_oc=AdneB4lCDPZ95GwkBc18yPBqBDx0KJBbBs3BtpBIarAhHXX_Xe04Bt93nF8-rPbu4mQ&_nc_zt=24&_nc_ht=scontent.fcai20-6.fna&_nc_gid=82BoXRmuCctRCyAwsu2f_w&oh=00_AfJG6Qx8GljgLqvbHK-0LgEBFqp11KvgYfhKtCPYQ84lDw&oe=682E9F53",
        "intro": "Organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful.",
        "email": "for.loop.2020@gmail.com",
        "followers_count": "37K",
        "friends_count": null,
        "likes_count": "750",
        "following_count": null,
        "location": null,
        "gender": "UNKNOWN",
        "birthday": null,
        "created_at": "22 June 2020",
        "category": "Community"
    },
    "post_id": "122118274184618514",
    "action_id": "ZmVlZGJhY2s6MTIyMTE4Mjc0MTg0NjE4NTE0",
    "text": "No Man Sky !!\nCredits @qballgamingYT\n#gamingcommunity\n#gaming\n#besttime\n#funnymoments",
    "create_time": 1737231816,
    "post_url": "https://www.facebook.com/61568555420777/videos/8940928369328022/",
    "like_count": 47,
    "comment_count": 591,
    "share_count": 32,
    "view_count": 0,
    "reaction_map": [
        {
            "name": "Like",
            "count": 166,
            "parsed_count": "166"
        },
        {
            "name": "Love",
            "count": 19,
            "parsed_count": "19"
        },
        {
            "name": "Haha",
            "count": 5,
            "parsed_count": "5"
        },
        {
            "name": "Care",
            "count": 2,
            "parsed_count": "2"
        }
    ],
    "play_count": 0,
    "image_list": [],
    "video_list": [],
    "video_cover_image": [],
    "durationInSec": [],
    "type": "video",
    "author_username": "UNILAD",
    "author_user_id": "100064850344103",
    "author_profile_url": "https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag",
    "author_avatar": "https://scontent.fcai20-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/...",
    "comments": []
}

Note: The reaction_map field contains reaction breakdown data when fetch_reaction_map is enabled. It is an array of objects with name, count, and parsed_count properties. Example:

{
    "reaction_map": [
        {
            "name": "Like",
            "count": 337,
            "parsed_count": "337"
        },
        {
            "name": "Sad",
            "count": 229,
            "parsed_count": "229"
        },
        {
            "name": "Care",
            "count": 185,
            "parsed_count": "185"
        }
    ]
}

Facebook Comments Scraper

{
    "action_id": "ZmVlZGJhY2s6OTAyOTM5NjE2MzgxODE1N185MDI5NDA2MTUzODE3MTU4",
    "comment_id": "9029406153817158",
    "gender": "FEMALE",
    "author_user_id": "100009355176494",
    "author_username": "Lillian Mamdouh",
    "author_profile_url": "https://www.facebook.com/lillian.mamdouh.7",
    "author_avatar": "",
    "text": "Up",
    "like_count": 0,
    "reply_count": 0,
    "create_time": 1738101623,
    "image_list": [],
    "video_list": [],
    "video_cover_image": [],
    "post": {
        "post_id": "9029396163818157",
        "post_url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/5958702877554183/posts/9029396163818157/",
        "author_user_id": "pfbid036cJegrwq7rXF3Le6BCGDZd8nwuGw31mwx2smn8go2sbjRe23PocViB4H7DW4VgQ6l",
        "author_username": "Perihan Sameh",
        "author_profile_url": null,
        "author_avatar": ""
    },
    "input": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/5958702877554183/posts/9029396163818157/"
}