Facebook Events Scraper avatar
Facebook Events Scraper
Try for free

7 days trial then $35.00/month - No credit card required now

View all Actors
Facebook Events Scraper

Facebook Events Scraper

apify/facebook-events-scraper
Try for free

7 days trial then $35.00/month - No credit card required now

Facebook Events Scraper extracts data such as event name, location, description or number of users who are interested. You can use URLs of specific events or come up with search queries and explore pretty much unlimited number of events. Search queries can be combined with various search filters.

User avatar

Only new events

Closed

wilbert-de-vries opened this issue
8 months ago
  1. Is it possible to use this actor and only retrieve new events for searches that weren't found in previous scrapes (some sort of published_since option)?
  2. Would be nice to be able to search only in specifiek countries
  3. Would be nice to be able to limit a search to a specific location as filter (eg New York and not the difficult FB code like eyJycF9ldmVudHNfbG9jYXRpb246MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcImZpbHRlcl9ldmVudHNfbG9jYXRpb25cIixcImFyZ3NcIjpcIjEwODQyNDI3OTE4OTExNVwifSJ9)
User avatar

generous_harmonica

8 months ago

I agree!!

Can these features be added?

User avatar

Hello, thank you for reaching out!

You can achieve this by combining search queries with various other search filters on FB directly. You can filter out paid-only events, online events or events taking place in a specific city, or on a specific date. All you need to do is to set up the filters on Facebook's event search page, copy the URLs and paste them to startUrls input field. Our scraper will recognize the filters since Facebook includes them in search URLs.

When it comes to filters, we're entirely limited to what you see on FB, but there are quite a few and I believe they cover all of your above-mentioned cases.

As for your first question, I don't think the data about when the event was published is available on FB, but I'll have this discussed with our delivery team and in case it will be there we will consider adding it to the output.

We will keep you posted!

User avatar

Hey, so I've run the first question through our delivery and unfortunately, the data about when the event was published is not accessible without login, so as such this will not be possible to implement. Thank you for your understanding.

Developer
Maintained by Apify
Actor metrics
  • 85 monthly users
  • 76.2% runs succeeded
  • 0.84 days response time
  • Created in Mar 2023
  • Modified 7 days ago