# Changelog of Facebook Games Scraper (`apify/facebook-games-scraper`) Actor - **URL**: https://apify.com/apify/facebook-games-scraper/changelog.md - **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/apify/facebook-games-scraper.md This changelog summarizes all changes of the Facebook actors provided by the [Apify organization](https://apify.com/store?search=facebook). The specific actors that are affected are listed for each change. #### 2026-05-21 *Breaking* - Facebook Posts (Breaking): Fixed typo — `paidParnership` → `paidPartnership` (renamed output field while restoring the property; breaking change). Please adjust your integrations. #### 2026-03-03 *Features* - Facebook Comments: Added `onlyCommentsNewerThan` letting you can extract only comments newer than a selected date/time (supports absolute and relative UTC formats). #### 2026-02-18 *Breaking* - Facebook Ads: Facebook has changed their internal structure. Our solution now correctly parses the new structure, but some fields have been renamed and `pageID` and `adArchiveID` are now strings rather than numbers. #### 2025-12-23 *Fixes* - Facebook Posts: Fixed time parsing for "shared memory" posts. #### 2025-12-17 *Fixes* - Facebook Comments: Fixed data loss issue in group post comments by implementing separate requests for nested reply threads when needed. #### 2025-12-16 *Fixes* - Facebook Page Posts: Updated to use a new internal data source for more accurate feed details. The legacy page feed format (previously seen on pages such as https://www.facebook.com/DanskeBankDanmark) has been deprecated as all pages have migrated to the unified format. #### 2025-11-14 *Fixes* - Facebook Likes Scraper: If an account has too many followers, only aggregate reaction counts are accessible; individual reactors are not available. Posts from such accounts are saved as error dataset items with the counters. #### 2025-11-10 *Fixes* - Facebook Reels Scraper: Restored reel publishing time parsing. - Facebook Posts Scraper: Restored likes and comments counters for reel(s) by direct URL. #### 2025-09-23 *Fixes* - Facebook Photos Scraper: Updated to use the new data endpoint. #### 2025-09-19 *Fixes* - Facebook Followers Scraper: Updated to use the new data endpoint. The Followers section must now be publicly visible without Facebook login (for example, see https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoDiCaprio/followers in an incognito browser). Both "Followers" and "Following" sections are supported. If only one section is available, it must match the specified "Relation type" (`followType`). If no relation is specified, the actor will scrape only the publicly available section. #### 2025-09-18 *Fixes* - Facebook Reels Scraper: Updated to use the new data endpoint. The Reels section must now be publicly visible without Facebook login (for example, see https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoDiCaprio in an incognito browser). If the Reels section is not visible (such as https://www.facebook.com/txt.daily.2024), the scraper will record an error item in the dataset. #### 2025-08-14 *Features* - Page details: Support for new properties of auto-generated pages. Specific naming is preserved to reflect differences in internal Facebook data. #### 2025-08-14 *Features* - Page details: 1. Support for extracting address, email, and phone details from the "About" section when not available in the Intro widget 2. Added `addressUrl` linking to Bing Maps 3. Social media links are now grouped by platform (e.g., `instagram: [ { username, url }, ...]`) 4. Additional information is now extracted from the updated formats of the "About" and "Page transparency" sections #### 2025-08-08 *Changes* - Facebook Reels Scraper: Added support for the newer than date #### 2025-05-09 *Changes* - Facebook Posts Scraper: No longer extracts transcripts by default This should speed up runs, and they can be included by setting `captionText: true` in the input #### 2025-05-07 *Fixes* - Facebook Photos Scraper: Added support for retrieving all photos from a direct group post URL. #### 2025-05-02 *Fixes* - Events: Restored support for parsing child events from the updated format. #### 2025-04-05 *Fixes* - Comments and Likes: Recent Facebook changes caused an issue where the repost ID was incorrectly parsed instead of the actual post ID, resulting in data being pulled from an incorrect source. #### 2025-01-23 *Features* - Posts: added support for inline references in post text as `textReferences` array, i.e. https://www.facebook.com/TSSPlatform/posts/pfbid02dyqd6ZY8NefArRZAsJEnfUiqUb3f43E4p2BniLzZ3Np2XfY8dXKNxjN4ZLw4pQmQl with https://www.facebook.com/InicjatywaPracownicza and https://www.facebook.com/AmazonWorkersInternational or https://www.facebook.com/groups/874728723021553/permalink/2055472031613877/ with "Let's welcome our new members!" #### 2025-01-17 *Features* - Reviews: added support for reviews, written by profile owner, i.e. https://www.facebook.com/RCYalamala/reviews\_written or https://www.facebook.com/crwjr007/reviews\_written #### 2025-01-17 *Features* - Events: added support for cover video #### 2024-12-18 *Features* - Photos: added support for getting a full media set of images per direct post URL. Allowed posts from both pages and groups. #### 2024-12-04 *Fixes* - Pages: Protected Facebook Identifiers (pfbid's: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/09/deterring-scraping-by-protecting-facebook-identifiers/) decoded as integer values #### 2024-11-12 *Fixes* - Events: added full image URL, isCanceled, address and usersResponded counter #### 2024-10-29 *Fixes* - Comments: handling for special cases when two sorting options available instead of three (Most relevant - Oldest VS Most relevant - Newest - All). Before such cases returned empty results, now picked up automatically. #### 2024-10-25 *Features* - Page events: upgraded from static (preloaded in page html source) to scrollable data. URL must be direct page event section (accepted both upcoming and past). Getting some more upcoming events than displayed in Facebook UI since Facebook filtering out events which scheduled too soon. #### 2024-10-16 *Fixes* - Facebook Comments: scrolling restored by migration to new Facebook scroll feature #### 2024-10-15 *Fixes* - Facebook Groups: top comments migrated to new format with backwards compatibility and fallback to raw output if comment items not recognized #### 2024-10-01 *Fixes* - Facebook Ads: some search filters was not applied in previous version and caused scraping more ads than specified by direct search URL #### 2024-09-29 *Fixes* - Facebook Ads: new formatting for internal search params, input-output not affected #### 2024-09-24 *Fixes* - Facebook Comments: nested comments was duplicated for any thread with pagination #### 2024-09-23 *Features* - Facebook Marketplace: support for real estate subcategories, i.e. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/np/prague/propertyrentals/ or https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/prague/propertyforsale/ #### 2024-09-23 *Features* - Facebook Comments: data source migrated to the new Facebook format with media attachements, optional inline replies, native `commentUrl` and `parentComment` #### 2024-09-12 *Features* - Facebook Pages: "Websites and social links" section scraped as `websites` array of URLs #### 2024-09-12 *Features* - Facebook Ads: support for single ad(s) by direct URL, ie. https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?id=1035075484817859 #### 2024-08-29 *Fixes* - Facebook Ads audience details scraping #### 2024-08-14 *Features* - Added optional values `previewTitle, previewDescription` to video Facebook Posts by direct URL(s) #### 2024-08-14 *Fixes* - Facebook Ads fully migrated to the new Meta Ads Library format with camelCase transformation *Features* - Added optional values `previewTitle, previewDescription, previewSource, previewTarget` to Facebook Posts for cases when preview auto-generate by Facebook (i.e. from external link) #### 2024-08-13 *Fixes* - Facebook Group Posts migrated to new pagination #### 2024-08-08 *Features* - Facebook Ads (without pageInfo) migrated to new Meta Ads Library data sources #### 2024-08-01 *Features* - Added group posts search by keyword. For popular groups some posts exposed by Facebook for SEO purposes, so group should be popular enough in order to get results without Facebook login, i.e. https://www.facebook.com/groups/182745791741355/ #### 2024-08-01 *Fixes* - Group post time was parsed from shared post, fixed - Contact page URLs allowed to be with names from 1 char length since its actually valid, i.e. https://www.facebook.com/g is real page by Bobby Goodlatte #### 2024-05-23 *Fixes* - Comments max results amount increased to 15.000 #### 2024-04-25 *Fixes* - Support for page events URLs with tab as query parameter i.e. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=100057490088191\&sk=events - Fallback for unparsable JSON https://www.facebook.com/USCPSC/posts/856415313196250 #### 2024-02-15 *Fixes* - correct rounding for likes in cases when there is no exact counter (i.e. https://www.facebook.com/univangers 20K likes saved as 20000) #### 2024-02-03 *Features* - page posts actor allows direct post URLs in the input #### 2024-01-26 *Fixes* - page details from "About" sections was not available for unnamed pages #### 2024-01-26 *Features* - page details creation\_date, ad\_status, confirmed\_owner, about\_me #### 2023-10-10 *Fixes* - Ads page ID for alt format like CarlingBlackLabelSA, cocacolaBW, BavariaSouthAfrica