Facebook Search Scraper

Search Facebook by keyword and export the results to JSON, CSV or Excel, without logging in or providing cookies. Get public posts with their full text, author, date, reactions, comments, shares and media, or search videos, people, pages, places and events. Filter posts by date range and city, and get the newest posts first.

What you get

• Posts: post link and ID, full text, posting date, author (name, link, ID, picture), the group it was posted in, tagged city, reaction count with a breakdown by type (Like, Love, Haha...), comment count, share count, view count for videos, photos and videos with their links, external link and privacy.
• Videos: video link, caption, author, views, publish date, thumbnail, duration and, for most videos, direct SD/HD video file links plus reactions, comments and shares.
• People, pages, places and events: name, link, ID, profile picture, verified badge, and the details Facebook shows in public search (for example "Lives in New York, New York", or a page's description).
• Top: Facebook's mixed "Top" results for a term.
• Deep searches: posts and videos are searched month by month, newest first, so you can collect far more posts for a term than a single Facebook search shows (which stops at about 100). This works with or without a date range.
• Every row carries the search term and search type that found it, so several terms can go into one run.

Use cases

• Social listening and brand monitoring: collect public posts that mention your brand, product or competitors, on a schedule.
• Trend and sentiment research: pull posts on a topic for a date range and feed them into NLP or BI tools.
• Lead generation: find pages, places and people matching a keyword, with links and pictures.
• Content research: find the most viewed videos and most engaged posts on a subject.
• Event discovery: find public events by keyword and date.

Input

Field	Description
Search terms (searchTerms)	One or more keywords. Each is searched separately.
Search type (searchType)	posts, top, people, pages, places, videos or events. Default posts.
Max results per search term (maxResults)	Default 50, up to 5,000.
Posted after / before (dateFrom, dateTo)	Posts and videos. A date like 2026-01-31 or a period like 3 months.
Most recent first (recentFirst)	Posts and videos. Newest results first.
City (location)	Posts and people. The city's Facebook page link, e.g. https://www.facebook.com/New-York-New-York-108424279189115/, or just its number.
Event date (eventDate)	Events. Events on this day, e.g. 2026-10-03.

{
  "searchTerms": ["iced latte", "cold brew"],
  "searchType": "posts",
  "maxResults": 300,
  "dateFrom": "2026-06-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-30",
  "location": "https://www.facebook.com/New-York-New-York-108424279189115/"
}

Finding a city's link: search the city's name on Facebook, open its place page (for example "New York, New York") and copy the address. The number at the end is the city's ID.

Output

One dataset item per result. A post:

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "1072805661929638",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0UWkMov9...",
  "text": "Caramel Cheesecake And Toasted Marshmallow Canned Coffee ☀️",
  "createdAt": "2026-06-29T14:05:29Z",
  "author": {
    "id": "100076006434154",
    "name": "Sweet Tooth Stop",
    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/people/Sweet-Tooth-Stop/100076006434154/",
    "profilePicture": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/...",
    "type": "User"
  },
  "group": null,
  "taggedLocation": { "id": "108347462523015", "name": "Chattanooga, TN, United States", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/Chattanooga-Tennessee-108347462523015/" },
  "reactionCount": 73,
  "reactions": { "Like": 49, "Love": 24 },
  "commentCount": 36,
  "shareCount": 8,
  "viewCount": null,
  "media": [
    { "type": "photo", "id": "1072805638596307", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1072805638596307", "imageUrl": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/...", "width": 526, "height": 526, "caption": "May be an image of dessert, drink and text" }
  ],
  "externalLink": null,
  "privacy": "Public",
  "searchTerm": "coffee",
  "searchType": "posts",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T16:20:11Z"
}

A page (people, places and events have the same shape):

{
  "type": "page",
  "id": "100064910490989",
  "name": "7 Brew Coffee",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/7brewcoffee",
  "profilePicture": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/...",
  "isVerified": true,
  "subtitle": null,
  "description": "We Cultivate Kindness™ one cup at a time 🥤 Download the 7 Brew App now!",
  "searchTerm": "coffee",
  "searchType": "pages",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T16:20:11Z"
}

The dataset has one Overview view; the Output tab shows all fields.

Good to know

• Only public content. The Actor sees what anyone sees on Facebook without logging in. Friends-only posts and searches that depend on your own account (such as "posts from friends") are not available.
• Facebook limits some searches. A term may have fewer public results than you ask for, especially places, events and Top. The run log reports how many results each term returned and whether Facebook ran out.
• People, pages, places and events come with the details Facebook shows in its public search list. Event dates and page categories are not part of those results.
• Groups, photos and reels searches are not offered, because Facebook does not show them to logged-out visitors.
• Date filters use the date Facebook assigns to each post.
• Video dates: video results show a relative date ("3 days ago") in publishedText instead of an exact createdAt.

Pricing

You pay per result saved to the dataset. Searches that fail and duplicate results are never charged. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options, and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Free plan: all features, up to 3 search terms and 50 results per term per run.

FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account or cookies? No.

How many posts can I get for one keyword? Usually hundreds or more. Facebook's own search stops at about 100 posts, but the Actor searches each month separately, newest first, so it keeps going far past that. Set a date range to choose exactly which months are searched.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Save your input as a task and schedule it in Apify Console, for example daily with dateFrom set to 1 day.

Can I use it through the API or with AI agents? Yes, like any Apify Actor: through the Apify API, SDKs, integrations (Make, Zapier, n8n) or the Apify MCP server.