# Changelog of Facebook page posts checker (`apify/facebook-page-posts-checker`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/apify/facebook-page-posts-checker/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/apify/facebook-page-posts-checker.md

## 2023-01-15

- Solved missed pageId for issue https://console.apify.com/actors/EfHlnWkAbpK15IdQg#/issues/gD8QRcnfpErvhnp7x/comments and URL formatting issue https://console.apify.com/actors/EfHlnWkAbpK15IdQg#/issues/fWGBgMB5wQMX5J7wy/comments

Reason: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/09/deterring-scraping-by-protecting-facebook-identifiers/

Explanation: Current IDs parsed from comments section widget, so when comments are disabled we can not get it from widget and need to decrypt `pfbid`

Samples:
https://www.facebook.com/icsshanghailive/posts/pfbid0P1XjK8AuzKtM89FtjXsPHGeV9JXU2qoGK6t8ipadQgUNEH2Aq3dBb73CD85tH7whl
https://www.facebook.com/icsshanghailive/posts/pfbid02KYh5Rxg7SjdnKqZXekmQJXg8kLEV7raXFW3NxnckxpDRWY2449jZVPunEL7gqtCTl
https://www.facebook.com/icsshanghailive/posts/pfbid0HLUoVFWryJJ2ApBVGKW4jEuwXZo96thXHudThRbDiiithnDdbAKNiaPhtLUsWoFUl

Solution:
https://apify.com/alexey/facebook-url-to-id where datasetItem.post.parentId is pattern `[DECODED_ID]:N:N` and datasetItem.post?.author?.identifier is `DECODED_PAGEID`, so from
https://www.facebook.com/icsshanghailive/posts/pfbid0P1XjK8AuzKtM89FtjXsPHGeV9JXU2qoGK6t8ipadQgUNEH2Aq3dBb73CD85tH7whl we getting
`datasetItem.post.parentId: "1781727915523352:9:0"`
`datasetItem.post?.author?.identifier: 100060258254826`
https://www.facebook.com/100060258254826/posts/1781727915523352

Competition:
Decrypting Facebook URLs
https://windsor.ai/connector/facebook\_organic/

## 2022-12-24

- Migrated to crawlee
- Enforced input.maxRequestRetries = 10
- Changed viewOption logic

## 2022-11-25

- Renoved getting `customProxies` on `unlockFacebook` because Proxy Scraper is "Under Maintenance"

## 2022-08-14

### Features

- Added `translatedText` (optional)

### Fixes

- Video detection