Facebook Video Scraper

Give it a Facebook video link and get back how it actually performed: views, plays, reactions with the emotion breakdown, comments, length, dimensions, the author, the caption and direct media links. Watch links, /videos/ links and /reel/ links all work and can be mixed in one run — but note that Reels publish far less publicly: Facebook shows no view count, no play count and no emotion breakdown on that surface, so those fields arrive empty and isReel on every row tells you which surface it came from. Built for social teams, agencies and researchers who need real numbers on public video content instead of screenshots.

No Facebook account, no login and no personal details are involved. Paste links, press start.

What you can do with it

• Benchmark your video performance against competitors using the same public figures for both.
• Report on a campaign by feeding in every video link from a flight and exporting one clean sheet.
• Track how a video ages by running the same links on a schedule and watching views, plays and reactions climb.
• Study what earns reactions rather than just views — the per-emotion breakdown separates a Like from a Love, a Haha from an Angry.
• Build a content archive with titles, captions, publish dates, lengths and thumbnails.
• Compare Reels against regular video on the same Page, with a flag on every row telling you which surface a number came from.

What you get

One row per video. An abridged real record:

{
  "videoId": "1596135602179420",
  "postId": "1591339195694784",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1596135602179420/",
  "authorName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "authorProfileId": "100044561550831",
  "authorPageId": "54971236771",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-31T20:58:24.000Z",
  "title": "What's Up: August 2026",
  "text": "The sky is full of excitement this month! …",
  "views": 33155,
  "plays": 193813,
  "durationMs": 163349,
  "width": 1920,
  "height": 1080,
  "isLive": false,
  "reactions": 2363,
  "reactionsBreakdown": { "like": 1967, "love": 348, "care": 29, "wow": 14, "haha": 2, "angry": 2, "sad": 1 },
  "comments": 92,
  "shares": null,
  "hdUrl": "https://video.…fbcdn.net/…mp4",
  "sdUrl": "https://video.…fbcdn.net/…mp4",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://scontent.…fbcdn.net/….jpg",
  "mediaUrlExpiresAt": "2026-08-06T05:41:19.000Z",
  "isReel": false,
  "identityMatchesRequest": true,
  "availability": "OK",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1596135602179420",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-01T20:14:02.117Z"
}

Views and plays are two different measurements and both are reported. On the video above, views were 33,155 while plays were 193,813 — nearly six times higher. Anything that reports a single "view count" for a Facebook video is quietly picking one of them for you.

Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
Video and Reel links	list of text	empty	The videos you want. Watch links, /videos/ links and /reel/ links are all accepted, as is a bare numeric video id.
Include media links	true/false	true	Whether to include the direct video and thumbnail links in each row.
Browse from	choice	United States	Which country to browse from.
Parallel work	number (1–8)	4	How many videos are collected at the same time. Four is a good balance.

Output fields

Field	Type	Notes
videoId	text	The video's own id — the one in the link.
postId	text	The id of the post that published it. For a Reel this is a different number from the video id.
url	text	The video's page on Facebook.
authorName	text or empty	The publishing profile's name.
authorProfileId	text	The publishing profile's numeric id.
authorPageId	text or empty	The Page's numeric id, which is a different number in a different namespace. Both are given so neither is mistaken for the other.
publishedAt	text	Publish time in a fixed universal format.
title	text or empty	The video title, when the publisher set one.
text	text or empty	The caption.
views	number or empty	How many times it was viewed.
plays	number or empty	How many times it was played. A different measurement from views.
durationMs	number	Length in milliseconds.
width, height	number or empty	Pixel dimensions.
isLive	true/false or empty	Whether it is a live broadcast.
reactions	number	Total reactions.
reactionsBreakdown	object or empty	Reactions split by emotion. Covers the most common emotions, so it adds up to at most the total, never more.
comments	number	Comment count.
shares	number or empty	Only present where Facebook publishes an exact figure.
hdUrl, sdUrl, thumbnailUrl	text or empty	Direct media links. Temporary — see below.
mediaUrlExpiresAt	text	The exact moment the media links in this row stop working.
isReel	true/false	True when the row came from the Reels surface, where Facebook publishes fewer figures.
identityMatchesRequest	true/false	Whether the video that came back is the one you asked for.
availability	text	OK on every delivered row.
sourceUrl	text	The link you supplied.
scrapedAt	text	When the row was collected.

An empty field means "Facebook does not publish this for this video", never zero.

Pricing

You pay per video delivered — $1.50 per 1,000 videos, and nothing else. There is no monthly fee and no charge for a run that finds nothing.

A video that cannot be read publicly, or a link whose id does not exist, is not charged. It is counted in the run summary as unavailable and never appears in your results.

Worked example: a weekly competitor report covering 200 videos costs about $0.30. A one-off audit of 5,000 videos costs about $7.50.

Limits & what this actor cannot do

• Media links are temporary. Every direct video and thumbnail link Facebook hands out is time-limited — roughly four days for video. Every row carries mediaUrlExpiresAt so you know exactly when, and the run summary repeats the earliest deadline in the batch. The links cannot be renewed or extended, so a "download it later from the saved link" workflow is not possible: download inside the run, or run again when you need the file.
• Views and plays are different measurements. Both are reported and neither is merged into the other. If you need one headline number, choose deliberately.
• Reels publish much less. No view count, no play count, no per-emotion breakdown and no exact share figure — Facebook simply does not show them publicly on that surface. Those fields arrive empty rather than as a fabricated zero, and isReel on every row tells you why.
• A Reel's post id is not the id in its link. Both are reported so records join correctly.
• Exact share counts are not published on the video and Reel surfaces. Where only a rounded label such as "1.7K" exists, the field is left empty rather than turned into a number that looks exact but is not.
• Reaction, comment, view and play counts are a live snapshot and keep moving — two readings of the same video seconds apart differed.
• The per-emotion breakdown covers the most common emotions rather than every one, so it sums to at most the total. Do not treat it as a complete split.
• Some videos are set so they are only visible to logged-in visitors, and a link with an id that does not exist looks exactly the same from the outside. Both are reported as unavailable, never as an empty result, and neither is charged.
• Every row is the video you asked for. A deleted or mistyped link can come back as a normal-looking page that shows a suggested video instead — same size, same layout, real numbers, wrong video. Every figure, link and author on a row is matched to the id in the link you supplied, so a page like that is reported as unavailable and not charged, rather than delivered as somebody else's numbers under your id.
• Comment text is not collected — this actor reports the comment count.
• Speed depends on the size of the job and on Facebook's own response times. No fixed throughput is promised.
• Facebook's terms prohibit automated access, and video content and its metadata can contain personal data. You are responsible for using what you collect lawfully, in line with Facebook's terms and with applicable privacy law, and for respecting the rights of the people who made the content.

FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account? No. Nothing is collected that a logged-out visitor cannot see.

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

Can I schedule it? Yes. Running the same links daily is the simplest way to watch how a video ages.

Is the data complete? It is complete for regular video: views, plays, reactions with the emotion breakdown, comments, length and dimensions. It is deliberately thinner for Reels, because Facebook publishes less about them — see the limits above.

Can I download the videos later using the links in my results? No. Those links stop working after a few days and cannot be renewed. Every row tells you the exact deadline. Download during the run, or run again when you need the file.

Why is shares empty on so many rows? Because Facebook does not publish an exact share count on the video and Reel surfaces. Rather than convert a rounded label into a number that looks precise, the field is left empty.

Why does a Reel have fewer numbers than a regular video? Because Facebook publishes fewer numbers for Reels publicly. The isReel flag marks those rows so the gaps are never mistaken for zero engagement.