Facebook URL to ID

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Scraping any Facebook URL as data object with internal Facebook ID and metadata if-when available.

To run the code examples, you need to have an Apify account. Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> in the code with your API token. For a more detailed explanation, please read about running Actors via the API in Apify Docs.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with API token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "fbUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.facebook.com/nintendo"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NintendoAmerica/posts/pfbid02JESEPSvyiLGjvewuFYhviAwQjTdxZW1ZfnWTeCzxVWgZLT3xgoLHVDwvuenVRyKKl"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NintendoAmerica/posts/pfbid02AB8FNERMDYwpsgVJVYaEQ8K2vpH4JLzPTvTB71WqiMfNQhu99ZMBmqvKZSt2tqT4l"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/germtheory.vs.terraintheory/permalink/5671657859577842/"
        }
    ]
};

(async () => {
    // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
    const run = await client.actor("apify/facebook-url-to-id").call(input);

    // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
    console.log('Results from dataset');
    const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
    items.forEach((item) => {
        console.dir(item);
    });
})();