Facebook Groups Scraper
Pricing
$45.00/month + usage
Facebook Groups Scraper
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.
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Pricing
$45.00/month + usage
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Total users
11K
Monthly users
805
Runs succeeded
99%
Issues response
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Last modified
2 days ago
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I need to scrape more than 5000 posts on a group. I wanted to use posts older than onlyPostsOlderThan, but it doesnt exist. Is there anyway to implement this.
Hi!
Facebook does not provide a date range filter for groups, so the actor can not support it. The only way around this is to use a simple search per year with up to 20 results, see sample run: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/UPUM6IEyjqlALaoxr Search for the single letters "a", "b", "c" etc, and different years, up to 20 posts by letter-year might bring you a good amount of the old posts in total.
I will close the issue now, but if there is anything else we could help with, please let us know.
ogmios2
@alexey,
Can you please explain with workaround a little more? I am not fully understanding.
Also, it maybe a good idea to explain in information tab, that date ranges are not possible.
Hi!
The workaround is a bit tricky and experimental: for example, searching for the letter "a" and the year 2020, with numerous retries and limited results (https://console.apify.com/view/runs/K9tu618nRxuQoyc8t), but it might be better than nothing, right?
Year 2020 was reached as expected: https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/0lgmLhmDkkrcBnO3Z/items?clean=true&format=json&fields=url,time
Due to low demand for the feature, we will not apply changes to it in the foreseeable future. Check if it might be useful for your case "as is".
I will close the issue now, but if there is anything else we can help with, please let us know.
