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Facebook Search Scraper

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Powerful Facebook search that scrapes and searches posts, pages, and profiles by keyword. Get detailed info like author, engagement metrics, images, videos. Ideal for research, monitoring, and analysis.

Pricing

$30.00/month + usage

Rating

5.0

(3)

Developer

Alien Force

Actor stats

Bookmarked

1.1K

Total users

100

Monthly active users

18 hours

Issues response

a month ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

Videos

You can access the Facebook Search Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

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Facebook Search Scraper OpenAPI definition

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You can download the OpenAPI definitions for Facebook Search Scraper from the options below:

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