Facebook Search Scraper

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.

2024-12-18

Features

• Photos: added support for getting a full media set of images per direct post URL. Allowed posts from both pages and groups.

2024-12-04

Fixes

• Pages: Protected Facebook Identifiers (pfbid's: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/09/deterring-scraping-by-protecting-facebook-identifiers/) decoded as integer values

2024-11-12

Fixes

• 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

2024-09-23

Features

• Facebook Marketplace: support for real estate subcategories, i.e. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/np/prague/propertyrentals/ or https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/prague/propertyforsale/

2024-09-23

Features

• 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

2024-09-12

Features

• Facebook Ads: support for single ad(s) by direct URL, ie. https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?id=1035075484817859

2024-08-29

Fixes

• Facebook Ads audience details scraping

2024-08-14

Features

• 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

2024-05-23

Fixes

• Comments max results amount increased to 15.000

2024-04-25

Fixes

• Support for page events URLs with tab as query parameter i.e. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=100057490088191&sk=events
• Fallback for unparsable JSON https://www.facebook.com/USCPSC/posts/856415313196250

2024-02-15

Fixes

• correct rounding for likes in cases when there is no exact counter (i.e. https://www.facebook.com/univangers 20K likes saved as 20000)

2024-02-03

Features

• page posts actor allows direct post URLs in the input

2024-01-26

Fixes

• page details from "About" sections was not available for unnamed pages

2024-01-26

Features

• page details creation_date, ad_status, confirmed_owner, about_me

2023-10-10

Fixes

• Ads page ID for alt format like CarlingBlackLabelSA, cocacolaBW, BavariaSouthAfrica