
Facebook URL to ID
- apify/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);
});
})();