# Facebook Post Scraper - Reactions, Comments & Shares (`aolmo/facebook-post`) Actor

Facebook posts, reels and videos by URL without login: text, date, author, reactions (total and by type), comments, shares, video views, photos, video and link, plus the top comments with author, date, likes and replies. Growth of reactions, comments and shares on scheduled runs. $0.003 per post.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aolmo/facebook-post.md
- **Developed by:** [Antonio del Olmo Tena](https://apify.com/aolmo) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 post scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

Scrape public Facebook posts, reels and videos by URL without logging in, without API keys and without cookies. Paste post URLs and get one row per post with text, date, author, reactions (total and by type: like, love, wow, haha, care, sad, angry), comments, shares, video views, every photo, video and link, the original post when it is a share, and the top comments with author, date, likes and replies. Schedule it and each row carries the growth of reactions, comments and shares since the previous run: campaign reporting, competitor benchmarks, viral-post alerts and community research at $0.003 per post.

The Actor reads exactly what Facebook shows to a logged-out visitor on the post page.

### What you get

**Post**: `id`, `url`, `text`, `hashtags`, `createdAt`, `authorName`, `authorId`, `authorUrl`, `authorPicture`.

**Engagement**: `reactions`, `reactionsText` (as displayed, e.g. `210K`), `reactionsByType`, `comments`, `commentsTotal`, `shares`, `videoViews`.

**Media**: `media` (every photo, video or link with `type`, `url`, `image`, `videoUrl`, `durationMs`, `caption`, `title`, `description`, `source`), `images`, `videoUrl`, `sharedPost` (id, url, text and author of the original post when this one shares it).

**Top comments** (`topComments`, the comments Facebook shows to visitors, about 10 per post): `id`, `text`, `authorName`, `authorId`, `authorUrl`, `authorPicture`, `createdAt`, `likes`, `replies`, `url`.

**Growth** on scheduled runs: `reactionsChange`, `commentsChange`, `sharesChange` (null on the first run).

Posts that do not exist, were removed, are private or need login return a row with an `error` field and are not charged.

### How to use it

1. Open the **Input** tab.
2. Add **Post URLs**, one per line (up to 500 per run): `https://www.facebook.com/nasa/posts/pfbid...`, `https://www.facebook.com/reel/...`, a video URL (`/videos/...`, `/watch/?v=...`), a share link (`/share/p/...`), a `permalink.php` link or a public group post (`/groups/.../posts/...`).
3. Click **Start** and export the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.
4. Schedule the Actor to follow how a post or a campaign evolves.

### Input

```json
{
  "postUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0kAjTCFHeSmCB9TePMvGo3PhbNbh5jFVu3iUpC5HodB45dgpke1fCdRZQHaJr7hXYl"]
}
```

### Output

One row per post:

```json
{
  "id": "1658876782274358",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0kAj...",
  "text": "Float into the weekend... Like a space jellyfish! ...",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-16T04:05:02.000Z",
  "authorName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "reactions": 210434,
  "reactionsByType": { "like": 110138, "love": 73988, "wow": 21514, "care": 3878, "haha": 752, "sad": 94, "angry": 70 },
  "comments": 2261,
  "shares": 12836,
  "videoViews": null,
  "images": ["https://scontent.../851053257_1801758024305105.jpg", "..."],
  "topComments": [{ "text": "This looks like a PS2 cut scene", "authorName": "Alberto S.", "likes": 238, "replies": 1, "createdAt": "2026-10-16T08:31:04.000Z" }],
  "reactionsChange": null,
  "timestamp": "2026-10-18T10:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.003 per post scraped** (top comments included) and **$0.0005 per post whose stats changed** on a scheduled run. Posts that cannot be read are free. A run of 100 posts costs $0.30.

### Limits and notes

- Only public posts: pages, public groups and public profiles. Private posts, photo pages (`photo.php`) and anything Facebook hides behind login come back as an error row (free).
- Facebook shows visitors the most relevant comments (about 10). For one row per comment use the **Facebook Comments Scraper**.
- Reaction and share counts are exact; the `reactionsText` field keeps Facebook's abbreviated display.
- The Actor never bypasses logins, CAPTCHAs or rate limits.

### Related Actors

- **Facebook Page Scraper**: followers, contact details and the latest post of any page.
- **Facebook Comments Scraper**: one row per comment.
- **Instagram Post Scraper**, **X Tweet Scraper**: the same for other networks.

# Actor input Schema

## `postUrls` (type: `array`):

One per line: https://www.facebook.com/nasa/posts/pfbid..., https://www.facebook.com/reel/..., a video URL, a share link or a public group post. Up to 500 per run.

## `product` (type: `string`):

Internal. Leave as is.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0kAjTCFHeSmCB9TePMvGo3PhbNbh5jFVu3iUpC5HodB45dgpke1fCdRZQHaJr7hXYl"
  ],
  "product": "facebook-post"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items: url, changed, events, data, timestamp and error (when the target failed).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "postUrls": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0kAjTCFHeSmCB9TePMvGo3PhbNbh5jFVu3iUpC5HodB45dgpke1fCdRZQHaJr7hXYl"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aolmo/facebook-post").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "postUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0kAjTCFHeSmCB9TePMvGo3PhbNbh5jFVu3iUpC5HodB45dgpke1fCdRZQHaJr7hXYl"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aolmo/facebook-post").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0kAjTCFHeSmCB9TePMvGo3PhbNbh5jFVu3iUpC5HodB45dgpke1fCdRZQHaJr7hXYl"
  ]
}' |
apify call aolmo/facebook-post --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,aolmo/facebook-post"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/LoSj2GEFZgvLQnMbQ/builds/8BgfcTx5JqlLV1Jsy/openapi.json