Extract data from one or multiple public Facebook groups. Get group and post URLs, post text, comments, timestamp, likes and comments count, and basic commentator info. Download the data in JSON, CSV, and Excel and use it in apps, spreadsheets, and reports.
This changelog summarizes all changes of the Instagram actors provided by the Apify organization. The specific actors that are affected are listed for each change.
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:
Support for extracting address, email, and phone details from the "About" section when not available in the Intro widget
Added addressUrl linking to Bing Maps
Social media links are now grouped by platform (e.g., instagram: [ { username, url }, ...])
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.
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
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
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
