🎬 Facebook Reels Scraper

Returns the reels of public Facebook pages and profiles without a login, a cookie or a browser. Enter page links or names and get one row per reel: link, caption, date, plays, reactions, comments, shares, length, video file and thumbnail, in the order of the page's Reels tab. Single reels can be read by their own links.

Price: $3.00 per 1,000 reels on the Apify Free plan, down to $2.40 from the Gold plan up. A page without a Reels tab, a page or reel that does not exist and reels outside your date limit cost nothing. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

What users report on the most used Facebook reels Actors	What this Actor does
""Like" is missing", "Not getting Created time (date of reel) and also Likes, comments count etc.,"	Every row has the date, the reactions, the comments and the shares of the reel
"Public shares of reel?"	shares is on every row
"single reel", "can not scrape Facebook Reels from URL"	reelUrls takes links of single reels and returns the same row
"Can you fetch the fanpage name and follower count?"	authorName and pageFollowers (the exact number) are on every row of a page
"How can I scrape only the current day's Facebook Reels?"	postedAfter: "1 day"
"No Results Scraped", "Crawler unable to retrieve stats but returns success"	The status message names every input that gave no rows and says why. A count that did not arrive is empty, never 0
"Accidental credit usage"	The default is ten reels. Inputs without rows are not charged, and a run stops at its maximum charge

🔎 What is the Facebook Reels Scraper?

A public page shows its Reels tab to any visitor, ten reels at a time while you scroll. This Actor makes the same requests the tab makes. It opens no browser (the test runs below used less than 200 MB of memory), and your own Facebook account is never involved.

What data does it extract?

• Reel: id, link, the link of its post, caption and publication time
• Reach: plays, reactions, comments and shares
• Video: length, width and height, the video file (HD when Facebook offers it), the cover picture, and the subtitle file when the reel has captions
• Author: name, id, link and the verified badge
• Page: link and exact follower count of the page the reel was listed on, and the reel's place in the tab

⬇️ Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
pages	array		Links of public pages or profiles, their names (natgeo) or numeric ids. An empty input reads a sample page
reelUrls	array		Links of single reels (https://www.facebook.com/reel/1390761463245388)
maxResults	integer	10	Reels to save per page, up to 5,000. Single reels are not counted against it
postedAfter	string	empty	Lower date limit for pages: a day (YYYY-MM-DD) or a period back from now (3 days, 2 weeks, 6 months)

Links of the forms facebook.com/natgeo, facebook.com/natgeo/reels, facebook.com/profile.php?id=… and facebook.com/people/Name/id are understood. A reel link is recognised in either field. A link of a page's single video, post or photo (facebook.com/natgeo/videos/…) is skipped with a note in the log: this Actor reads Reels tabs and reel links.

Example input

The latest 100 reels of three pages:

{
  "pages": ["https://www.facebook.com/natgeo", "bbcnews", "ESPN"],
  "maxResults": 100
}

The reels of the last two days, for a daily schedule:

{
  "pages": ["bbcnews", "cnn"],
  "postedAfter": "2 days",
  "maxResults": 200
}

Single reels, for example to refresh their counts:

{
  "reelUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1390761463245388",
    "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1665351285019129"
  ]
}

Coming from another Facebook reels Actor?

The input names startUrls, resultsLimit and onlyPostsNewerThan are read as well, so an input written for the most used Facebook reels Actor runs here unchanged. The row names facebookUrl, inputUrl, topLevelUrl, topLevelReelUrl, text, time and playCountRounded mean the same here. What that Actor nests under playback_video, video and video_owner is flat here: videoUrl, videoSeconds, thumbnailUrl, width, height, captionsUrl, authorName, authorId, authorUrl.

⬆️ Output

One row per reel. A reel of a page (the two media links are shortened here):

{
  "reelId": "1434930798741696",
  "topLevelReelUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1434930798741696/",
  "postId": "1679914753505948",
  "topLevelUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/100044623170418/posts/1679914753505948/",
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/natgeo",
  "inputUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/natgeo",
  "text": "Presented by ROLEX. It's time to explore nature on an epic scale. It's time to explore Africa. …",
  "time": "2026-10-03T14:09:52.000Z",
  "playCountRounded": 96000,
  "reactions": 1168,
  "comments": 16,
  "shares": 99,
  "videoSeconds": 30.0,
  "videoUrl": "https://video-fra3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/o1/v/t2/f2/m366/AQOWVg-O9Y4oD_7xi4jIVSVE3Jheag….mp4?…",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://scontent-fra5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/835305431_1602651628018385_652232471749145288_n.jpg?…",
  "width": 1080,
  "height": 1920,
  "captionsUrl": null,
  "trackTitle": "National Geographic · Original audio",
  "authorName": "National Geographic",
  "authorId": "100044623170418",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/natgeo",
  "authorVerified": true,
  "pageFollowers": 51305541,
  "position": 4,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-06T17:17:41.634971+00:00"
}

playCountRounded is the number Facebook shows, and Facebook rounds it: 96K is 96000. shares is exact below 1,000 and rounded above (1.4K is 1400). reactions and comments are exact. position is the reel's place in the page's Reels tab, counted from the top; a reel read by its own link has no position and no pageFollowers. The run also writes a SUMMARY record that names the inputs without rows and the reason a run stopped.

💰 What a run costs

Apify plan	Per 1,000 reels
Free	$3.00
Bronze	$2.80
Silver	$2.60
Gold, Platinum, Diamond	$2.40

Apify's standard start event ($0.00005) is the only other charge; proxies are included. Not charged: a page that shows visitors no Reels tab, a page or reel that does not exist, a reel that two entries of your input name (it is saved once) and reels older than your date limit. Set the run's maximum charge and the Actor stops at it with the rows it has saved.

⏱️ Measured

These numbers are from October 6, 2026, on a test server outside Apify that asked Facebook from its own address, without a proxy. Times on Apify can differ.

Run	Reels	Time
Empty input (sample page), three runs	10	3.4 s each
One page, 100 reels	100	19 s
Three pages side by side, 300 reels each	900	52 s
One page, 1,000 reels, back to February 2024	1,000	168 s
A page's whole list of 131 reels, back to its first of 2018	131	23 s
Ten single reels by link	10	6 s
Four pages with a date limit of two days	54	20 s

The runs in the table stayed below 200 MB; the highest of all test runs was 215 MB. A request for ten recent reels takes one to two seconds, and two to three seconds 2,000 reels down a list. The deepest read was 3,260 reels of one page, back to May 2019, and the list had not ended there. In the 1,900 rows of two of these runs every row had plays, reactions, comments, shares, length, video file and thumbnail. A run that was killed and started again ended with 481 rows, none of them twice. Through residential addresses, which the Actor takes only when Facebook serves neither its own address nor Apify's datacenter proxy, ten requests took 9 to 17 seconds each.

🤖 For AI agents

Smallest useful call:

{"pages": ["https://www.facebook.com/natgeo"], "maxResults": 20}

Each row is one reel with topLevelReelUrl, text, time, playCountRounded, reactions, comments, shares, videoSeconds, videoUrl and authorName. pages and reelUrls take several entries at once. An input that gives no rows costs nothing; the status message and the SUMMARY record name it with the reason. No credentials are needed.

💡 Use cases

• 📊 Competitor and brand tracking: what a company publishes as reels, how often, and which reels get plays, reactions and shares.
• 🎯 Creator research: the reach of a creator's reels over time, before a campaign is booked.
• 🎬 Content research: which lengths, formats and captions work on the pages of your market.
• 🔁 Reporting: the counts of a known list of reels, read again every week by their links.

⚠️ Limits, stated plainly

• Pages that show visitors a Reels tab. In a check of 32 pages, 30 did. NASA showed none and is reported as "No Reels tab for visitors"; a reel of that page was still read by its link. Samsung's page sends a visitor to the login and is reported as "Not shown to visitors".
• Plays are rounded by Facebook, and shares above 999. Reactions come as one total, not by kind.
• The tab is close to newest first, not exactly. Two of the three lists read to depth were in date order but for one reel. In the third, 3,250 reels of a page that publishes in batches, half of the reels stood below an older one, and 96 in 100 reels stood at most thirty places late. A date limit therefore reads on until thirty reels in a row are older. Tested on that third list with 997 date limits inside its newest 1,000 reels, the rule missed no reel; with limits reaching back seven years it missed one to five reels for 2 in 100 limits.
• A lower date limit only. Facebook's list takes no dates, so a range from the past means reading down to it. Filter on time for an upper limit.
• Ten reels per request. That is what Facebook hands out; one page gave 310 to 360 reels a minute in the runs above, and several pages run side by side.
• 5,000 reels per page and run. Lists longer than 3,260 reels are untested.
• Comments are counted, not exported. The Facebook Comments Scraper returns the texts when you give it the topLevelReelUrl of a row.
• No keyword or hashtag search, no reels of groups. This Actor reads pages and reels you name.
• Media links are Facebook's own and expire. Download videos and pictures soon after the run if you need the files.
• A single reel's plays come from its page title. A reel whose title states none has an empty playCountRounded.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account or cookies? No. The Actor reads what a visitor without an account gets.

Does it work for personal profiles? For profiles that show their reels to everyone, such as public figures. In the tests a personal profile with 121 million followers was read like a page.

Why is a page reported as "No Reels tab for visitors"? The page exists, and Facebook shows a visitor no Reels tab for it. Open the page in a private browser window to see the same. Its reels can still be read one by one through reelUrls.

Why are there fewer reels than I asked for? The page has fewer, or your date limit was reached. When a page has more reels than maxResults, the status message says so.

How do I get only new reels every day? Put the run on a schedule with postedAfter set to 2 days and keep the rows by reelId. A reel is then delivered on two days; reelId identifies it.

Can I download the videos? videoUrl is the file's link. The Actor returns the link and does not store the file.

Are the counts exact? Reactions and comments are. Plays, and shares above 999, are rounded by Facebook before anyone sees them.

Can the same reel appear twice? No. A reel that is listed under its page and also given by its link is saved once, and a run that is started again saves nothing a second time.

How do I call it from code? With the Apify API or the Python and JavaScript clients; every run returns a dataset you can fetch as JSON or CSV. It also works as a tool through Apify's MCP server.

Is it legal? The Actor reads what Facebook shows to everyone without a login. Reels and captions can contain personal data: GDPR, CCPA and similar rules apply to how you store and use them, and Facebook's terms apply to you as well. Collect only what you need.

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