Facebook Reels Scraper: Views, Likes, No Login

Facebook Reels Scraper: Views, Likes, No Login

Facebook Reels scraper for the reels of public Facebook pages and profiles, with no login, no cookies and no Facebook account: give page links, usernames, numeric ids or a link to a text file or Google Sheet, and get each page's reels from its Reels tab, newest first, down to the end of the tab or to the number of reels you ask for. Every row carries the reel's link, caption, hashtags, mentions, publish and upload time, duration and size, Facebook's play figure, exact reaction and comment counts, shares, music, thumbnail, HD and SD video links and the page's followers; one page row per page adds talking about, were here, the about line and the verified mark. Pay per reel, from $0.318 per 1,000.

Built for social media and content teams, agencies reporting on client pages, creator and brand research, trend tracking, newsrooms, academic studies and AI data sets, and for scheduled runs in n8n, Make or Zapier. Rows carry what Facebook shows a visitor who is not logged in; use them under the rules that apply to you.

At a glance

• A page's Reels tab read logged out from Apify's datacenter proxy: no account to lose, no cookies to keep fresh. Pages, public figures' profiles and personal profiles that show their reels to visitors are read the same way.
• Deep walks: the tab is read 10 reels a call to Facebook's end of the tab, to your number of reels, or to the start of your date window.
• Filters: a publish date window (dates or a time back such as 30 days), words to keep or leave out of the caption, a minimum number of plays, reels per page and reels per run. Reels a filter leaves out are free.
• Exact view count (add-on): each delivered reel's own watch page, for the exact play count behind the cut figure the tab shows ("230K"), the video views and the reactions by type.
• Comments (add-on): each delivered reel's comments, and replies if you like, as rows of their own.
• Free options: transcripts from Facebook's own captions, and page details (category, address, phone, e-mail, websites, hours, price range, rating, and from the Meta Ad Library whether the Page runs ads now).

Quick start

1. Open the Actor and type one or more pages in Facebook pages or profiles, one per line, for example https://www.facebook.com/natgeo or just natgeo.
2. Set Reels per page (the form starts at 10).
3. Optional: Published on or after (for example 30 days), caption words, Minimum plays, the Exact view count or Comments add-ons, Transcripts, Page details.
4. Click Start. Download the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

An input with no page at all returns a free sample: the newest 3 reels of facebook.com/natgeo, with only the start fee charged.

What you get

One row per reel (type reel), one row per page (type page), comment rows with the Comments add-on (type comment), one free coverage row per page, free status rows and one free summary row per run.

Reel rows

Field	What it is
reelId, postId, url, mediaType	Facebook's video id, its post id, the link (facebook.com/reel/<id>/, or facebook.com/watch/?v=<id> for a regular video Facebook lists on the page's reels tab) and reel or video
caption, hashtags, mentions, linksInCaption	the caption exactly as Facebook serves it, its hashtags, the people and pages it mentions (see Personal data) and the links written in it
publishedAt, uploadedAt, ageHours	when the reel was published (the date Facebook shows), when its video was uploaded, and its age in hours at the read (UTC)
durationSeconds, width, height, aspectRatio, orientation	length and size; portrait, landscape or square
playCountLabel, playCountMin, playCountMax	the play figure the Reels tab shows ("137K") and the range it stands for (137,000 to 137,999: Facebook cuts the figure, it does not round it)
reactionCount, commentCount	exact numbers of reactions and comments
shareCountLabel, shareCountMin, shareCountMax	the share figure Facebook shows (exact below 1,000, cut above) and its range
engagementCount, engagementRate, playsPerHour	reactions plus comments, that sum divided by the page's followers, and plays an hour since publication (from playCountMin, or from the exact play count with the add-on)
thumbnailUrl, videoUrlHd, videoUrlSd, videoUrlExpiresAt	the thumbnail, the HD and SD MP4 links Facebook's player plays, and the time those links stop working
captionsUrl, captionTracks	Facebook's own captions file and its tracks, where the reel has captions
music	title, artist, song, soundtrackId, audioType (original, library_music, or Facebook's own type name in lower case), isOriginalAudio; the title is Facebook's own sound line (artist and song, or the page and "Original audio")
isPinned	the reel Facebook shows first on the tab: the first reel uploaded more than an hour before the one after it
isReshare, reshareCreatorName, reshareCreatorId, reshareCreatorUrl, collaborators	a reshared reel's original creator, and the reel's collaborators
isBrandedContent, brandedContentSponsor	Facebook's paid partnership mark and the sponsor it names
aiGeneratedDetected, aiGeneratedSelfDisclosed, aiTransparencyType	Facebook's AI labels for the reel
ownerName, ownerId, ownerVerified	who posted it
instagramReactionCount, instagramCommentCount	the reel's Instagram counts where Facebook shows a cross posted reel's figures (empty on most reels)
phones, emails	phone numbers and e-mail addresses written in the caption, with personal data on only (see Personal data)
pageName, pageType, pageId, pageClassicId, pageUsername, pageUrl, pageVerified, pageFollowers	the page or profile whose Reels tab was read; pageType is page or person; followers exact
playCount, viewCount, reactionsByType, exactViewsStatus	with Exact view count: the exact play count, the video views and the reactions by type (like, love, care, haha, wow, sad, angry); exactViewsStatus is ok, no_figures, not_found, other_video, failed, not_read, skipped_charge_limit or not_requested
transcript, transcriptCues, transcriptLocale, transcriptStatus	with Transcripts: the captions' text, its timed cues and language; transcriptStatus is ok, truncated, no_captions, not_read or not_requested
tabPosition, pageInput, subjectKey, scrapedAt	the reel's place on the tab, the page's place in your input, a key, the time of the read

outputFormat compact gives 28 one level fields instead (reel and post ids, link, caption, time, duration, plays, reactions, comments, shares, engagement rate, thumbnail, HD link, music title, pinned, page, transcript).

Measured fill, real platform runs of 2026-10-24 UTC on the final build (256 MB, datacenter proxy). Sample A: 1,000 reels of facebook.com/natgeo in one run (run ngbJi8Sk5ncEhVqbn, published 2024-03-22 to 2026-10-23). Sample B: 45 reels, one each from 45 different pages (media, sports, retail, technology and creator pages; run pkgDFEuyytO1hIUan).

Field	Sample A (1,000 reels)	Sample B (45 reels)
reelId, postId, url, mediaType, caption, publishedAt, uploadedAt, durationSeconds, width, height	100 %	100 %
playCountLabel (and its range), reactionCount, commentCount, shareCountLabel, engagementRate, playsPerHour	100 %	100 %
thumbnailUrl, videoUrlSd, videoUrlExpiresAt	100 %	100 %
videoUrlHd	98.8 %	100 %
pageFollowers, pageVerified, ownerName	100 %	100 %
hashtags (at least one)	45.7 %	40 %
mentions (at least one)	45 %	11.1 %
music.title	7.4 %	37.8 %
captionsUrl (Facebook's own captions)	3.7 %	26.7 %

mediaType: 605 of the 1,000 natgeo rows were reel and 395 were video, regular videos Facebook lists on that page's reels tab (sample B: 40 reels and 5 videos), so filter on mediaType if you want reels only. With the add-ons on (smaller runs of the same day): Exact view count read 6 of 6 reels; Transcripts gave text for 7 of 10 reels of a public figure's profile (3 no_captions); Page details read the About tab and the Ad Library facts of 2 of 2 Pages (a media brand with 237 active ads, a bakery with its address, phone and rating) and marked the person's profile not_a_page.

Page rows

pageName, pageType, pageId, pageClassicId, pageUsername, pageUrl, pageVerified, pageFollowers, pageTalkingAbout, pageWereHere, pageAbout, pagePlace, pageProfilePictureUrl. With Page details on, for Pages: category, address, phone, email, websites, businessHours, priceRange, rating, recommendPercent, reviewCount, pageDetailsStatus, and from the Meta Ad Library isRunningAds, activeAdsCount, adLibraryUrl, pageCreatedAt, pageNameChanges, pageAdminCountries, adsStatus. Page details are never read for a person's profile (not_a_page).

Comment rows (Comments add-on)

commentId, reelId, postId, reelUrl, parentCommentId, threadCommentId, depth, text, language, createdAt, authorName, authorId, authorUrl, authorIsReelAuthor, authorBadges, reactionCount, reactions, replyCount, attachments, isEdited, mentions, phones, emails, commentUrl (the comment's link on the reel's own link, ?comment_id=), pageName, subjectKey, scrapedAt. Comments come oldest first, up to Comments per reel (replies included).

Coverage, status and summary rows (free)

• coverage (one per page): calls read, reels read, delivered and charged, repeats, reels another page already delivered, reels past the cap, every filter's count (filtered: newer, older, keywords, plays), whether a pinned reel was seen, the newest and oldest reel dates, stopReason (end_of_reels, max_reels_per_page, window_end, no_reels, page_not_found, page_not_public, max_items, charge_limit, work_allowance, max_run_seconds and the like) and complete.
• status: a page Facebook says is not available (page_not_found), a profile Facebook shows only behind its login page (page_not_public), values not used (values_skipped, positions only), an add-on that could not be read in the run (addon_unavailable), a call Facebook did not answer (lookup_failed), pages not started (skipped), invalid input (invalid), the empty input sample (sample), and a date window in the past that the walk did not reach (window_not_reached, with passedNewer and reachedBackTo: see Limits).
• summary (the last row): the run's counters, its requests, the work allowance and its charges per event.

Example reel row (Apify platform run of 2026-10-24, links shortened, some empty fields left out)

{
  "type": "reel",
  "reelId": "1474215734570532",
  "postId": "1697487478415342",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1474215734570532/",
  "mediaType": "reel",
  "caption": "No wrong answers to this question.\n\n#IndiaFromAbove is now streaming on Disney+",
  "hashtags": ["IndiaFromAbove"],
  "mentions": [{ "name": "Disney+", "type": "person", "id": null, "url": null }],
  "linksInCaption": [],
  "phones": null,
  "emails": null,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-21T22:00:13.000Z",
  "uploadedAt": "2026-10-21T22:00:00.000Z",
  "ageHours": 50.5,
  "durationSeconds": 15.018,
  "width": 1080,
  "height": 1920,
  "aspectRatio": 0.563,
  "orientation": "portrait",
  "playCountLabel": "137K",
  "playCountMin": 137000,
  "playCountMax": 137999,
  "reactionCount": 886,
  "commentCount": 24,
  "shareCountLabel": "21",
  "shareCountMin": 21,
  "shareCountMax": 21,
  "playsPerHour": 2712.86,
  "engagementCount": 910,
  "engagementRate": 0.000018,
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/863384256...",
  "videoUrlHd": "https://video-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/o1/v/t2/f2/m366/AQO4w1xE4-...",
  "videoUrlSd": "https://video-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/o1/v/t2/f2/m412/AQMubjmvH_...",
  "videoUrlExpiresAt": "2026-10-28T09:58:18.000Z",
  "captionsUrl": null,
  "captionTracks": [],
  "music": { "title": null, "artist": null, "song": null, "soundtrackId": null, "audioType": null, "isOriginalAudio": true },
  "isReshare": false,
  "isPinned": false,
  "isBrandedContent": false,
  "aiGeneratedDetected": false,
  "aiGeneratedSelfDisclosed": false,
  "aiTransparencyType": "NONE",
  "collaborators": [],
  "ownerName": "National Geographic",
  "ownerId": "100044623170418",
  "ownerVerified": true,
  "pageName": "National Geographic",
  "pageType": "page",
  "pageId": "100044623170418",
  "pageClassicId": "23497828950",
  "pageUsername": "natgeo",
  "pageUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/natgeo",
  "pageVerified": true,
  "pageFollowers": 51425370,
  "playCount": null,
  "viewCount": null,
  "reactionsByType": null,
  "exactViewsStatus": "not_requested",
  "transcript": null,
  "transcriptStatus": "not_requested",
  "tabPosition": 5,
  "pageInput": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T00:30:13.603Z"
}

The mention shows the personal data switch at work: Facebook did not type that mention as a Page, so with personal data off it keeps its name and its id and link stay empty.

How fast

Measured on the platform (final build, 256 MB, datacenter proxy), 2026-10-24 UTC: the prefill (10 reels) in 7 seconds; 1,000 reels of one page in 953 seconds (about 63 a minute), peak memory 108 MB; 3 pages at once (maxConcurrency 3) delivered 26 reels in 10 seconds; 6 reels with Exact view count in 48 seconds; 3 reels with their comments and replies in 8 seconds; 50 pages of one reel each in 447 seconds.

How much does it cost to scrape Facebook reels?

Pay per event: you pay for the reels delivered, once for each page that delivered a charged reel, and for the add-ons you turn on. A repeat, a reel a filter leaves out, a page that is missing, private or has no reels, a failed call and an input that cannot be used are never charged.

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Reel (reel), per 1,000 reels	$0.45	$0.41	$0.37	$0.318
Page (page), per 1,000 pages	$1.80	$1.65	$1.50	$1.30
Exact view count (exact_views), per 1,000 reels, add-on	$1.26	$1.15	$1.05	$0.90
Comment (comment), per 1,000 comments, add-on	$0.27	$0.24	$0.22	$0.19
Actor start (apify-actor-start), once per run	$0.008	$0.008	$0.008	$0.008

Platinum and Diamond plans pay the Gold price. There is no discount on the Actor start event (one event per GB of run memory; this Actor runs at 256 MB, so a run pays one). The Store pricing card shows these same prices per 1,000 events: "$0.45 / 1,000" on the Reel row means one reel costs $0.00045 on the Free plan, under a twentieth of a cent, and "$1.80 / 1,000" on the Page row means one page row costs $0.0018.

• Reel is charged once per reel per run: a page given twice, or a reel on two pages' tabs, is delivered and charged once.
• Page is charged once per page, with the page's first charged reel; a page that delivers no charged reel gets its page row free.
• Exact view count is charged only with the add-on on, and only when the reel's watch page gave its figures. Some watch pages come back without them (4 of 11 first reads in the feasibility tests of 2026-10-23); such a page is asked again on a fresh exit, up to 3 reads in all, and a reel whose page still shows none is delivered without them (exactViewsStatus no_figures) and not charged for them.
• Comment is charged per comment or reply row with the add-on on.
• Transcripts and Page details cost nothing extra.

Worked examples, start fee included:

Run	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
The prefill: 10 reels of one page	$0.0143	$0.01375	$0.0132	$0.01248
100 reels of one page	$0.0548	$0.05065	$0.0465	$0.0411
1,000 reels: 100 reels from each of 10 pages	$0.476	$0.4345	$0.393	$0.339
20 reels of one page with Exact view count (all 20 read)	$0.044	$0.04085	$0.0379	$0.03366
20 reels of one page with 20 comments each (400 comment rows)	$0.1268	$0.11385	$0.1049	$0.09166

Every run reads its pages fresh: a reel a scheduled run delivered yesterday is delivered and charged again today. Narrow a daily run with Published on or after (for example 2 days) and dedupe on reelId in your own sheet or workflow. Set a charge limit on the run and it stops there, with every row already delivered kept.

The work allowance

Work that earns nothing (pages whose reels every filter leaves out, refused calls, long stretches of repeats) is bounded by an allowance in real cost that grows with every event the run bills. When it is spent the run stops: the page it was reading ends with work_allowance in its coverage row, the pages not started get a free skipped row, and every row already delivered is kept. The add-ons read from a small allowance of their own, so a watch page or a comment call that fails never stops the walk it serves.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
pages	Up to 500 public pages or profiles, one per line: a link (facebook.com/natgeo, facebook.com/natgeo/reels/, facebook.com/profile.php?id=100044623170418, facebook.com/people/Name/100044623170418/, facebook.com/p/Name-100044623170418/), a username (natgeo or @natgeo) or a numeric id. A link to a single reel, video, post, group or event is skipped free and named in a values_skipped row. Also read: startUrls, profileUrls, facebook_urls, username, pageId.	none (the form starts with https://www.facebook.com/natgeo)
pagesListUrl	One https link to a public text or CSV file of up to 1 MB, or a Google Sheet shared with "anyone with the link" (its first tab, or the tab in the link). Every cell that names facebook.com is read, and in a one column file every line (a value that is not a page is skipped free). It joins pages (500 together at most). One file link a run: a startUrls item written as { "requestsFromUrl": "..." } is read the same way, instead of this field. A link that cannot be read in 20 seconds stops the run before anything is fetched from Facebook.	none
maxReelsPerPage	Reels delivered per page, newest first (after a pinned reel), 1 to 100,000; reels left out by a filter do not count. Also read: resultsLimit, maxReelsPerProfile, reels_count, maxReels.	20 (the form starts at 10)
maxItems	A cap on the reels of the whole run. Also read: maxResults.	no cap
onlyReelsNewerThan, onlyReelsOlderThan	The publish date window, UTC: YYYY-MM-DD, an ISO time, today, yesterday, or a time back such as 7 days, 2 weeks, 3 months, 1 year. Also read: onlyPostsNewerThan, reelsNewerThan, reels_newer_than, postedAfter, newerThan, sinceDays (a number of days), onlyPostsOlderThan, postedBefore, olderThan.	no window
includeKeywords, excludeKeywords	Up to 50 words or phrases to keep (any of them) and to leave out (any of them), matched in the caption and hashtags as whole words, case and accents aside. Also read: keywordFilter.	none
minPlays	Only reels whose play figure on the tab certainly reaches this number ("28K" counts as 28,000). Also read: minPlayCount, minViews.	none
includeExactViews	The Exact view count add-on. Also read: enrichDetailPage, enrichReelDetails.	off
includeComments, maxCommentsPerReel	The Comments add-on and the comment rows per reel (1 to 5,000, replies included). Also read: fetchComments.	off, 20
includeReplies, maxRepliesPerComment	Replies under each comment (1 to 1,000 a comment), with comments on. Also read: fetchCommentReplies.	off, 10
includeTranscript	Facebook's own captions as text and timed cues (free). Also read: fetchTranscript.	off
includePageDetails	A Page's About tab and Ad Library facts on its page row (free, Pages only). Also read: include_profile_details, enrichAuthorProfile.	off
includePersonalData	The personal data switch (below).	off
outputFormat	full or compact.	full
maxConcurrency	Pages read at the same time, 1 to 3. Prices do not change.	1
requestDelayMs	The pause between two calls of one page, 300 to 10,000 ms.	400
maxRunSeconds	End the run after this many seconds (60 to 86,400) with what was read so far.	the run's own timeout
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy's datacenter pool (default), your own proxy links, or no proxy (the run's own address). Apify's RESIDENTIAL group is not offered (its transfer price is far above what a reel is charged): it refuses the input, nothing is fetched and only the run's start fee is charged. Also read: proxy.	Apify datacenter pool

A value sent as null or "" counts as left out. Two keys of one meaning sent together, a setting name the Actor does not know, or a value it cannot use as given refuse the input with one free invalid row (only the start fee is charged).

How the date window works

Facebook lists a page's reels by the time their video was UPLOADED, newest first, after an optional pinned reel, while the date it shows is the PUBLISH time, which can be later (a scheduled reel). The window is judged on the publish time, and the walk goes on until the reels it reads were uploaded more than 30 days before the window's start, so a reel published within 30 days of its upload is found. A reel published more than 30 days after its upload can be missed by a window.

Examples:

{ "pages": ["natgeo", "https://www.facebook.com/nike/reels/"], "maxReelsPerPage": 100 }

{
  "pages": ["natgeo"],
  "onlyReelsNewerThan": "30 days",
  "excludeKeywords": ["sponsored"],
  "minPlays": 100000,
  "includeExactViews": true
}

{
  "pagesListUrl": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<your sheet id>/edit#gid=0",
  "maxReelsPerPage": 20,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerReel": 20,
  "includePageDetails": true
}

Limits

• No jump to a date. Facebook's Reels tab can only be walked newest first; there is no way to start at a date. A window that ends in the past (Published on or before, onlyReelsOlderThan) means walking past every newer reel first. That walk is free to you, but it is bounded in every run by the work allowance (above): asked for June 2026, the walk of facebook.com/natgeo passed 40 newer reels, back to 2026-10-01, before it stopped (platform run of 2026-10-24, final build). When the window is not reached, the page gets a free window_not_reached status row that says how far back the walk got (passedNewer, the reels walked past, and reachedBackTo, the oldest upload day it saw), and nothing is charged for that page. A window that reaches up to today (Published on or after alone) is read normally.
• A reel published more than 30 days after its upload can be missed by a date window (above).
• Up to 500 pages a run, up to 100,000 reels a page, 1 to 3 pages read at the same time, 256 MB of run memory. A run delivers at most 100,000 rows in all (reels, pages and comments together); run it again for more.
• The play figure on the Reels tab is cut ("230K"); exact plays need Exact view count, and a watch page that still shows no figures after 3 reads leaves the reel without them, free.
• Facebook's video links expire (videoUrlExpiresAt); download the files you need soon after the run.

Personal data

Off by default. A Page's facts are always delivered. A person's profile (a public figure's included) keeps its name, and its profile id, username, link and picture stay empty (pageId, pageClassicId, pageUsername, pageUrl, pageProfilePictureUrl, ownerId). People mentioned in a caption, reshared or collaborating creators and commenters keep their names, without ids or profile links; phone numbers and e-mail addresses in captions and comments are not listed (phones, emails stay empty), and a link in a comment's attachments that leads to a person's profile, or is a contact link, is left empty. Reel links never hold a profile name (facebook.com/reel/<id>/ or facebook.com/watch/?v=<id>). Texts are never masked. With Include personal data (includePersonalData: true) those fields are filled; you are responsible for a lawful use of personal data (GDPR included).

What this Actor does NOT do

• Logged in data and cookies: it reads what a visitor who is not logged in sees; no account, no cookies, nothing private. A profile Facebook shows only behind its login page (asked twice, on two exits) gets a free page_not_public row.
• A reel by its link: it reads a page's Reels tab; a single reel, video or post link is skipped free. For posts, videos and reels by link use the Facebook Post Scraper.
• Keyword or hashtag search: it reads the pages you name; to find reels by words use the Facebook Video Search Scraper.
• Jumping to a date: the Reels tab is walked newest first, so a window far in the past may not be reached in one run (a free window_not_reached row says how far back it got; see Limits).
• Exact plays without the add-on: the Reels tab shows a cut play figure ("230K"); the exact play count comes only with Exact view count.
• Speech to text: transcripts are Facebook's own captions; a reel without captions has no transcript (no_captions).
• The video files themselves: rows carry the MP4 links Facebook serves, which stop working at videoUrlExpiresAt; the files are not stored.
• A place: the Reels tab carries no location for a reel.
• A memory of earlier runs: there is no monitor or "new reels only" mode; each run reads its pages fresh. Schedule it with Apify's scheduler and use a date window.
• Alerts and an always on API: no per reel webhook (use Apify's run webhooks) and no Standby endpoint.
• Outside services: no speech to text or translation through your own outside account or key; no residential proxy (see Input).

API examples

Run and get the rows (replace <APIFY_TOKEN>):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation_craft~facebook-reels-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"pages": ["natgeo"], "maxReelsPerPage": 20}'

Node.js:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('automation_craft/facebook-reels-scraper').call({ pages: ['natgeo'], maxReelsPerPage: 20, includeExactViews: true });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.filter((x) => x.type === 'reel'));

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("automation_craft/facebook-reels-scraper").call(run_input={"pages": ["natgeo"], "maxReelsPerPage": 20})
reels = [x for x in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items() if x["type"] == "reel"]

Send the rows where you need them with Apify's own integrations: a webhook on the run's end, or the Make, Zapier and n8n Apify modules.

FAQ

Can I scrape Facebook reels without logging in?

Yes. The Actor reads each page's Reels tab the way a visitor who is not logged in sees it, through Apify's datacenter proxy: no account, no cookies. It returns public reels of pages and of profiles that show them to visitors; a profile Facebook shows only behind its login page (asked twice, on two exits) gets a free page_not_public row.

Does it get the exact view count of Facebook reels?

The Reels tab shows a cut play figure ("137K"), delivered as playCountLabel with the range it stands for (playCountMin, playCountMax). Turn on Exact view count and each reel's own watch page adds the exact playCount, the viewCount and reactionsByType; it is charged only when the page gave those figures.

How do I get all the reels of a Facebook page?

Set Reels per page high (up to 100,000): the walk goes 10 reels a call to the end of the tab, and the coverage row says end_of_reels when it got there. Add Published on or after to stop at a date instead.

Can I download the reels or export them to CSV?

Each row carries videoUrlHd and videoUrlSd, the MP4 files Facebook's player plays; download them before videoUrlExpiresAt, the time Facebook's links stop working. The rows themselves download as JSON, CSV or Excel from the run, or through the API.

Can I get the transcript of a Facebook reel?

Yes, where the reel has Facebook's own captions: turn on Transcripts (free) and each row gets transcript, its timed transcriptCues and transcriptStatus. There is no speech to text, so a reel without captions says no_captions.

Why does this Actor run with limited permissions?

It needs nothing beyond its own run storage, so it runs with Apify's limited permissions (least privilege): it can read and write only the dataset and key-value store of its own run, and nothing else in your account.

More data tools by Automation Craft

• Facebook Video Search Scraper: Reels, No Login
• Facebook Posts Scraper - Page Posts, No Login
• Facebook Post Scraper: Reactions and Shares by URL
• Facebook Comments Scraper: Replies, No Login
• Facebook Groups Scraper: Posts of Public Groups
• Facebook Page ID Finder: Names to Page IDs
• Instagram Posts Scraper: Profiles, Reels, No Login
• Threads Scraper: Posts, Search, Tags, Replies
• Meta Ad Transcript Scraper - Video Ads to Text
• Meta Ads Library Scraper - Ad Library, All Filters

Changelog

See the Changelog tab (CHANGELOG.md).