Facebook Reviews Scraper

What is Facebook Reviews Scraper?

It's a simple and powerful tool that allows you to scrape Facebook reviews data: review text, timestamp, review URL, likes&comments count and basic reviewer info. To get that data, just insert the page URL and click "Save & Start" button.

Why scrape Facebook reviews?

Scraping Facebook reviews can automate data collection to spot shifts in customer attitudes, analyze social media phenomena and their influence, monitor competition, identify hot spots of misinformation, fake news, hate speech, and more.

How do I use Facebook Reviews Scraper?

Facebook Reviews Scraper was designed to be easy to start with even if you've never extracted data from the web before. Here's how you can scrape Facebook data with this tool:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
2. Open Facebook Reviews Scraper.
3. Add one or more Facebook page/profile URLs to scrape its reviews.
4. Click "Start" and wait for the data to be extracted.
5. Download your data in JSON, XML, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

Input

The input for Facebook Reviews Scraper should be URLs of Facebook pages you want to scrape reviews from. Click on the input tab for an input example in JSON.

{
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "resultsLimit": 10,
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/HiltonGardenInnMontrealAirport"
    }
  ],
  "maxRequestRetries": 10
}
...

Output

This mini-scraper will deliver results in a dataset. You can choose in which format to download it: JSON, Excel, HTML CSV, or XML. Here's an excerpt from the JSON dataset you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

[{
  "id": "UzpfSTEwMDAyNDQ3MTA5Nzg4NjoxMzY1OTE2NTI3NTY3Mzcx",
  "user": {
    "id": "100024471097886",
    "name": "Babelle Germain",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/babelle.germain.5",
    "profilePic": "https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/311326070_1318671062291918_4808326534617419234_n.jpg?stp=cp0_dst-jpg_p40x40&_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7206a8&_nc_ohc=oCVzRScNOmAAX8kHqQo&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&oh=00_AfCnG2znNaeyk7O3tObJA_ow8UlAERTcH00fuPMMDQ86IQ&oe=639A0FA2"
  },
  "date": "2022-12-07T23:42:13.000Z",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/babelle.germain.5/posts/pfbid02Z9iXvMmZevLZasbGbtmALK3VsVYkda5VqS3BGY9QYfKi1UgxkcrpsXr7rKqzcnytl",
  "text": "Je recommande 👍 personnel courtois et amical, chambre confortable et bavette de bœuf délicieuse 👍",
  "likesCount": 0,
  "commentsCount": 0,
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/HiltonGardenInnMontrealAirport"
},
{
  "id": "UzpfSTczOTEzODU0NToxMDE1ODg1NDEzNzAxODU0Ng==",
  "user": {
    "id": "739138545",
    "name": "Aqeel Hafiz",
    "profileUrl": null,
    "profilePic": "https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/279263178_10158757775708546_4448762289371667718_n.jpg?stp=c0.0.40.40a_cp0_dst-jpg_p40x40&_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7206a8&_nc_ohc=8rH_j5QGPk4AX8qgEAO&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&oh=00_AfBQJqqxzXj-KiU6lo-8Rtw6XJZRjAl72mmiFH6LoCWUQQ&oe=639AB1AC"
  },
  "date": "2022-06-24T00:47:28.000Z",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/aqeel.hafiz/posts/pfbid02D5D5e5PccNg95Q5W2m9JnhhkbrbwKJsbWQy7Bcj6LuRVWAswrt4Vg6hS3497EDYJl",
  "text": "Gr8 and simple yet elegant place for a night",
  "likesCount": 0,
  "commentsCount": 0,
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/HiltonGardenInnMontrealAirport"
},
{
  "id": "UzpfSTcyNDY1MTYyNDoxMDE1ODAyMzg2MTYwMTYyNQ==",
  "user": {
    "id": "724651624",
    "name": "Colin Mc Intyre",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/colintyre",
    "profilePic": "https://scontent.fjbr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/262505944_10158177829011625_2023686115065185113_n.jpg?stp=cp0_dst-jpg_p40x40&_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7206a8&_nc_ohc=fNi0u-dMBAkAX9HPHrY&_nc_ht=scontent.fjbr1-1.fna&oh=00_AfCb8-eMIKKdWPaFbOn_asAO1uWVFqzOUVAs6UMxbCgmXw&oe=6399F49C"
  },
  "date": "2021-09-03T03:59:36.000Z",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/colintyre/posts/pfbid02V72LqbCnkNhJYcNC6puEZGZRmopeH1Vkk4cnMhwBvQMd2rxcBJyUrLNq1ao3NCBJl",
  "text": "Great all round service. front desk was great.",
  "likesCount": 0,
  "commentsCount": 0,
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/HiltonGardenInnMontrealAirport"
},
{
  "id": "UzpfSTY3NzM5MDc2NjoxMDE1ODM1MjU3MzY2NTc2Nw==",
  "user": {
    "id": "677390766",
    "name": "Cary Smith",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/cary.smith.5095",
    "profilePic": "https://scontent.fjbr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/294202380_10159829697905767_8492699057873588814_n.jpg?stp=cp0_dst-jpg_p40x40&_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7206a8&_nc_ohc=va6tGZq42sUAX9od4mr&_nc_ht=scontent.fjbr1-1.fna&oh=00_AfDqggE-oCVHAi_BmBLrAtVorBKGQvWAoRPb25_vxMqvpw&oe=6399F83F"
  },
  "date": "2020-08-16T13:58:55.000Z",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/cary.smith.5095/posts/pfbid0MKmZzdBHzqM6aTp9xmQ4RjTLC7bsZY45Xis5sTEg2R6afW1sukc8QAfL6fMUamUdl",
  "text": "We rented 2 rooms. 1 was a suite for my son and his large Family. I stayed in a regular room! Rooms were clean. The only disappointing thing was that the pool was closed cause of the whole Virus thing! Very pleased!",
  "likesCount": 0,
  "commentsCount": 5,
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/HiltonGardenInnMontrealAirport"
},
...

How much will it cost me to scrape Facebook Reviews?

If you run the scraper on the Apify platform, for successful Facebook scraping you will need residential proxies which are included in Apify's monthly Personal plan ($49).

For more details about how our pricing works, platform credits, proxies and usage, see the platform pricing page or this video guide on ▷ how to choose the right subscription plan.

Want to scrape Facebook groups or comments?

You can use the dedicated scrapers below if you want to scrape specific Facebook data. Each of them is built particularly for the relevant Facebook scraping case be it a group, posts, comments or photos. Feel free to browse them:

| | | |:-: |:-: | | 👥 Facebook Groups Scraper | 📝 Facebook Posts Scraper | | 💬 Facebook Comments Scraper | 🏞 Facebook Photos Scraper |

Integrations and Facebook Reviews Scraper

Last but not least, Facebook Reviews Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. You can integrate with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and more.

Or you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever Facebook Reviews Scraper successfully finishes a run.

Using Facebook Reviews Scraper with the Apify API

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more. To access the API using Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the apify-client PyPI package.

Check out the Apify API reference docs for full details or click on the API tab for code examples.

Is it legal to scrape Facebook Reviews data?

Our Facebook scrapers are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so.

If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. You can also read our blog post on the legality of web scraping and ethical scraping.