Facebook Post Scraper

Give it a link to any public Facebook post and get the post back as one clean row: who published it, when, its wording, the reaction total and the per-emotion breakdown, comment and share counts, video views and plays, the outbound link and the pictures or video attached to it. It works on ordinary posts, photo posts, videos, reels and permalinks, and it needs no Facebook account of any kind. Reels and photo permalinks publish less than ordinary posts do — where Facebook shows nothing, the field arrives empty rather than guessed.

What you can do with it

• Measure a campaign post by post. Pull the exact reaction, comment and share figures for every post you or a client published, and see which emotions people actually reacted with.
• Benchmark competitors. Track the posts a rival brand publishes and compare engagement per post, per format and per publishing time.
• Score creator and influencer content before you pay for it, using the real engagement on specific posts rather than a follower count.
• Feed a reporting dashboard on a schedule and keep a dated history of how a post performed, since the figures on Facebook keep moving.
• Study video performance properly — views and plays are two different figures on Facebook and both are reported separately here.
• Archive the wording and imagery of posts you care about, together with the date the picture and video links stop working.

What you get

One row per post. Abridged real example:

{
  "postId": "1591339195694784",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/videos/whats-up-august-2026/1596135602179420/",
  "postType": "video",
  "authorName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "authorPageId": "100044561550831",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-31T20:58:24.000Z",
  "text": "The sky is full of excitement this month! ...",
  "reactions": 2363,
  "reactionsText": "2.3K",
  "reactionsBreakdown": { "like": 1967, "love": 348, "haha": 2, "wow": 14, "sad": 1, "angry": 2, "care": 29 },
  "comments": 92,
  "shares": null,
  "views": 33155,
  "plays": 193813,
  "videoId": "1596135602179420",
  "durationMs": 163349,
  "mediaUrls": ["https://video.<...>.fbcdn.net/o1/v/t2/f2/m366/..."],
  "mediaUrlExpiresAt": "2026-08-06T05:41:19.000Z",
  "linkUrl": null,
  "availability": "OK",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-01T19:21:44.881Z"
}

Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
Post links	list of text	one example post	The posts you want. Open a post, video, reel or photo on Facebook and copy the link from your browser. Post, video, reel, photo and permalink forms are all accepted. For the wording and the author's name, link to the post; a link to a picture on its own page carries the numbers but not those two — see the limits. Required.
Include media links	true / false	true	Include the picture and video links attached to each post. Turn it off for a lighter dataset.
Browse from	choice	United States	The country to browse from. Some posts are shown differently depending on where the visitor is.
Posts at a time	whole number 1–8	4	How many posts to work on simultaneously. Four is the sweet spot; higher is not faster.

Anything that is not a post link — a Page link, a home page link, a link from another site — is skipped with a message saying why, and the run continues.

Output fields

Field	Description
postId	Facebook's own identifier for the post.
url	The link Facebook settled on for the post, after any redirect.
sourceUrl	The link you supplied.
availability	OK, or UNAVAILABLE when nothing real came back for that link.
identityMatchesRequest	Whether the post that came back is the one the link asked for. Empty when the link uses one of Facebook's opaque identifiers, which cannot be compared.
postType	link, photo, video, reel or text.
authorName, authorPageId	Who published the post. On reels and on a picture opened on its own page Facebook publishes only the identifier, so authorName is empty there.
publishedAt	Publication time, in ISO 8601.
text	The wording of the post, in full and untruncated. Empty — never borrowed from anything else on the page — when Facebook publishes no wording for that link.
reactions	Total reactions. Empty — never 0 — when Facebook publishes no figure.
reactionsText	The shortened figure as Facebook displays it, e.g. 2.3K.
reactionsBreakdown	Per-emotion counts: like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry, care. An emotion Facebook does not publish for that post is empty rather than 0.
comments	Number of comments Facebook shows on the post.
shares	Exact share count where Facebook publishes one.
sharesText	The share figure as displayed, which for some posts is only a shortened label such as 1.7K.
views, plays	Video figures. These are two different measurements and are never merged.
videoId, durationMs, isLive	Video details, where the post is a video or reel.
mediaUrls	Links to the pictures and video attached to the post.
mediaUrlExpiresAt	The moment those links stop working. See the limits below.
linkUrl, linkTitle, linkDomain	The destination, headline and source of a shared link.
scrapedAt	When the row was collected.

Pricing

You pay per result. Each post that produces a row costs $0.0015 — that is $1.50 per 1,000 posts. Nothing else is charged: no monthly fee, no charge for the time a run takes.

A link that turns out to be unavailable produces no row and costs nothing. So a run over 1,000 links where 940 are live costs $1.41.

Limits & what this actor cannot do

• Picture and video links are temporary. Facebook signs them with an expiry — roughly four days for video, roughly a month for pictures — and the expiry cannot be extended by anyone. Every row carries mediaUrlExpiresAt so you know exactly when its links die. Download what you need while the links are fresh; a "download it later" feature is not possible for this source.
• Reels publish much less than other posts. A reel has no per-emotion breakdown, no view figure, no play figure and no author name. Those fields come back empty rather than as invented zeros. A reel's own identifier is also not the number in its link, so both are reported.
• A link to a picture on its own page is not a link to the post. Opening a photo full-screen gives you a link of the /photo/?fbid=… form. Facebook publishes the reactions, the emotion breakdown, the comment and share counts and the picture itself on that page — but not the wording the author typed and not the author's name. Both come back empty, and neither is ever filled in with text taken from somewhere else on the page. If you want the wording and the name, use the link to the post itself.
• View and play figures belong to the post you asked for, or to nobody. Facebook shows related videos alongside a post, and those neighbours carry figures of their own. Nothing from them is ever reported as yours: a post with no view figure of its own is reported empty.
• Share counts are not published everywhere. They are present on link and photo posts, absent on some videos, and on reels only as a shortened label such as 1.7K. A shortened label is reported as text and never converted into a number that Facebook never published.
• The emotion breakdown is a top list, not a full split. It covers the leading emotions only, so it adds up to less than the total. Do not treat the sum as the total.
• Counts are a snapshot. Reactions, comments, shares and plays move within minutes of each other. Every row is stamped with the moment it was collected.
• Some posts are not publicly viewable at all. Posts on Pages or in groups that require signing in, and links to posts that no longer exist, are reported as unavailable rather than returned empty — and are not charged for.
• A link that looks fine can still be empty. Facebook answers a made-up post identifier with a perfectly normal-looking page. Those are detected by their content and reported as unavailable.
• There is no search. You supply the post links; the actor cannot find posts by keyword, topic or Page.
• Comment text is not included. This actor reports the comment count. For the comments themselves, use the Facebook Comments Scraper.
• Speed depends on the size of the job and on how quickly Facebook answers on the day. No fixed rate is promised.
• Use the data lawfully. Facebook's terms prohibit automated collection, and post content and author details may be personal data. You are responsible for using what you collect in line with the source site's terms and with applicable privacy law.

FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account? No. Only public posts are collected, and no account is ever involved.

Does it need my login or any personal details? No. There is nothing to connect and nothing to sign in to.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Schedule it like any other actor — daily or hourly runs are a good way to build a history of how a post's engagement grew, since the figures keep moving.

Is the data complete? For a public post, yes for everything Facebook itself publishes: text, author, time, reactions with the emotion breakdown, comments, shares and video figures. There are two exceptions, both in the limits section: Facebook publishes far less about reels, and a link to a picture on its own page carries the numbers but neither the wording nor the author's name.

A row came back with no text — is that a bug? No. It means Facebook published no wording for that link. The most common cause is a /photo/?fbid=… link, where the wording lives on the post rather than on the picture's own page; link to the post to get it. An empty field is always "Facebook did not publish this", never a guess at what the text might have been.

Why is a field empty instead of 0? Because empty means "Facebook did not publish this", which is a different fact from "the figure is zero". This actor never turns one into the other.

Can I use the picture and video links later? Only until mediaUrlExpiresAt. After that Facebook refuses them, and nobody can renew them. Collect the post again to get fresh links.

What happens with a link to a post that was deleted? It is reported as unavailable, produces no row, and costs nothing.