📘 Facebook Search Scraper

Facebook Search Scraper is a powerful tool that enables you to search and extract public content from Facebook based on a keyword. You can use it to discover posts, pages, or people matching your search criteria — ideal for research, monitoring, or competitive analysis.

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🚀 Key Features

• 🔎 Search Facebook by keyword
• 📝 Fetch public posts, pages, or people
• 📅 Optional filter to sort posts by recency
• 📅 New: Filter posts by start date and end date to retrieve posts within a specific date range
• 📊 Get engagement data: likes, shares, comments, views
• 👤 Author details (name, profile picture, ID)
• 🖼 Image, video, and post content extraction

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📥 Input Schema

Field	Type	Description
search_type	string	One of "posts", "pages", or "people"
keyword	string	The search term to use
filter_by_recent_posts	boolean	If true, filters to most recent posts
results_limit	number	Maximum number of search results to return
min_wait_time_in_sec	number	Minimum wait time between requests (to avoid rate limiting)
max_wait_time_in_sec	number	Maximum wait time between requests
cookies	array	Optional cookies for authenticated access
start_date	string	Optional filter to specify the start date for posts (YYYY-MM-DD)
end_date	string	Optional filter to specify the end date for posts (YYYY-MM-DD)

📥 Example Input

{
    "search_type": "posts",
    "keyword": "iron man",
    "filter_by_recent_posts": false,
    "results_limit": 10,
    "min_wait_time_in_sec": 1,
    "max_wait_time_in_sec": 4,
    "cookies": [],
    "start_date": "2022-01-01",
    "end_date": "2022-12-31"
}


### 📤 Example Output (Posts Type)

```json
[
    {
        "input": "iron man",
        "author": null,
        "post_id": "1202413085219598",
        "action_id": "ZmVlZGJhY2s6MTIwMjQxMzA4NTIxOTU5OA==",
        "text": "March Recap\n\nWhat was post to be an exciting month...",
        "create_time": 1575889354000,
        "post_url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1374619206869162/",
        "like_count": 8,
        "comment_count": 12,
        "share_count": 0,
        "view_count": 36,
        "play_count": 36,
        "image_list": [
            "https://scontent.fcai20-6.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.75761-10/..."
        ],
        "video_list": [
            "https://video.fcai20-6.fna.fbcdn.net/o1/v/t2/f2/m69/..."
        ],
        "video_cover_image": [
            "https://scontent.fcai20-6.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t51.75761-10/..."
        ],
        "durationInSec": [33],
        "type": "video",
        "author_username": "Michelle Bella",
        "author_user_id": "100063527524035",
        "author_profile_url": "https://www.facebook.com/chellsbohojungle",
        "author_avatar": "https://scontent.fcai20-6.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/..."
    }
]

📤 Example Output (Pages and People Type)

[
    {
        "input": "Google",
        "id": "100069202816629",
        "id_v2": "100069202816629",
        "name": "Google Cloud",
        "profile_url": "https://www.facebook.com/GoogleCloudIN",
        "profile_picture": "https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1...",
        "is_verified": true,
        "info": "Welcome to the official Google Cloud..."
    }
]