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Facebook Posts Scraper

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Extract data from hundreds of Facebook posts from one or multiple Facebook pages and profiles. Get post URL, post text, page or profile URL, timestamp, number of likes, shares, comments, and more. Download the data in JSON, CSV, and Excel and use it in apps, spreadsheets, and reports.

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request to include video plays

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copporon opened this issue
4 months ago

When scraping video posts, viewCount brings the number of people who watched the first 3 seconds of the video. But Facebook have changed their presented data and currently the number that appears under the video is now the number of video plays. Is it possible for you to update and enhance the actor so it fetches the number of video plays?🙏 This data is significant to us. Thanks!

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Hello, thank you for your feedback. We will investigate if those data exist publicly and are potentially able to be scraped and get back to you :)

alexey avatar

Hi!

Without Facebook login this counter only available for reels and as rounded value, so please try new actor designed exactly for it, sample run: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/Fe6El64cnDtQVJAx9 see https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/tVWqYhEvh5P0yj78K/items?clean=true&format=json "playCountRounded": 662

https://apify.com/apify/facebook-reels-scraper

I´m going to close the issue now, but if there would be anything else we could help with, please let us know.

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copporon

4 months ago

Thanks for your reply Jakub & Alexey,

Referring to this run: https://console.apify.com/actors/KoJrdxJCTtpon81KY/runs/kBZQocy7MzGrEnBsw#output > postID 122180878550205343 (22nd result). The viewCount returned with 13532 views, while the data shown under the video is 33K - much higher (see attached photo, or here - https://www.facebook.com/61556160299458/videos/812303177441890/ ). In this case, this is a post with a long video and not a reel, so unfortunately the facebook-reels-scraper can't help me there (I tried it).

Is it possible to add this number (which is visible & accessible without a Facebook login) to the Facebook Posts Scraper? I understand it may well be a rounded value.

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  • Created in Nov 2022

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