Facebook Profile Scraper — No Login Required

Extract posts and profile info from any public Facebook profile — no login or cookies required.

No browser automation — just fast, lightweight HTTP requests for reliable extraction.

Features

• No login required — extracts posts anonymously from public profiles
• Smart Scrape (dedup) — skip posts already scraped in previous runs, saving up to 75% on recurring scrapes
• Profile info extraction — public name, category, likes/followers/talking-about metrics, services, and contact fields when Facebook exposes them
• Full post data — text, author, permalink, timestamp, reactions, comments, shares, images, videos, hashtags
• Date filtering — extract posts newer than a specific date (ISO or relative: 7d, 30d, 6m)
• Multi-profile support — process multiple profiles in a single run
• Pagination — follows Facebook's available timeline cursors until the requested limit or exposed feed ends
• Low cost — runs on 256MB memory, no browser overhead

Smart Scrape: How It Saves You Money

Enable Smart Scrape to skip posts you've already extracted. The scraper maintains a persistent cache per profile that survives across runs indefinitely.

	Without Smart Scrape	With Smart Scrape
Run 1 (500 posts)	$1.76	$1.76
Run 2 (125 new)	$1.76	$0.8225
Run 3 (125 new)	$1.76	$0.8225
Run 4 (125 new)	$1.76	$0.8225
Monthly total	$7.04	$4.2275
Unique posts	875 (+ 1,125 duplicate rows)	875 (zero duplicate rows)
Cost per unique post	$0.0080	$0.0048

This example uses the currently applied Free-tier post price ($0.0035), $0.001 cache checks, the $0.005 profile-info event, and the $0.005 run-start charge. It assumes includeProfileInfo: true. Higher Apify tiers have lower post prices; verify the Store pricing panel for current rates.

Refresh Window

Set refreshWindowDays to re-check recent posts for updated comment/reaction counts. For example, refreshWindowDays: 7 re-scrapes posts from the last 7 days even if cached, so you always get fresh engagement data on recent content.

What you get

Profile info (when includeProfileInfo is enabled)

Field	Description
name	Profile display name
profileUrl	Direct link to the profile
services	Array of listed services
contactPhone	Phone number (if public)
contactEmail	Email address (if public)
followersCount	Number of followers, or null when Facebook does not expose it
likesCount	Number of page/profile likes, or null
talkingAboutCount	Current “talking about this” metric, or null
category	Public category, when present
address	Public address, when present
website	Public website, when present
entityType	Facebook entity type (User, Page, or Unknown)
type	Always "profileInfo"

Posts

Field	Description
postId	Unique post identifier
postUrl	Direct permalink to the post
profileUrl	Link to the source profile
profileName	Profile display name
authorName	Author's display name
text	Full post text content
timestamp	ISO 8601 timestamp
imageUrls	Array of image URLs attached to the post
videoUrls	Array of video URLs attached to the post
reactionCount	Number of reactions, or null when unavailable
commentCount	Number of comments, or null when unavailable
shareCount	Number of shares, or null when unavailable
hashtags	Array of hashtags extracted from the post text
scrapedAt	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the post was scraped

How it works

1. Fetches the profile page anonymously — no login, no cookies, no browser
2. Extracts CSRF tokens and numeric user ID from the page HTML
3. Queries Facebook's internal GraphQL API for timeline posts
4. Parses public profile metadata from server-rendered profile/About data and structured GraphQL fields
5. Checks each post against the dedup cache (if Smart Scrape is enabled)
6. Paginates via Relay cursors until maxPosts is reached or Facebook stops exposing cursors
7. Saves updated cache for next run

Input examples

Basic extraction

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61580944632584" }
  ],
  "maxPosts": 20
}

With profile info and posts

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/zuck" }
  ],
  "maxPosts": 50,
  "includeProfileInfo": true,
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "30d"
}

Smart Scrape (incremental monitoring)

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/zuck" },
    { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61580944632584" }
  ],
  "maxPosts": 100,
  "enableDedup": true,
  "refreshWindowDays": 7
}

Output example

Profile info

{
  "name": "Example Public Page",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789",
  "services": [],
  "contactPhone": null,
  "contactEmail": null,
  "followersCount": null,
  "likesCount": null,
  "talkingAboutCount": null,
  "category": null,
  "entityType": "Page",
  "type": "profileInfo"
}

Post

{
  "postId": "1084920485123456",
  "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/1084920485123456/",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=4",
  "profileName": "Mark Zuckerberg",
  "authorName": "Mark Zuckerberg",
  "text": "Excited to share what we've been working on. More details coming soon.",
  "timestamp": "2026-03-01T14:30:00.000Z",
  "imageUrls": ["https://scontent.fudi1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/..."],
  "videoUrls": [],
  "reactionCount": 42000,
  "commentCount": 8500,
  "shareCount": 1200,
  "hashtags": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-06T18:00:00.000Z"
}

Other CrowdPull Facebook scrapers

• Facebook Page Posts Scraper — extract posts from any public Facebook page
• Facebook Group Posts Scraper — extract posts from any public Facebook group
• Facebook Comment Scraper — extract comments and replies where Facebook exposes them; optional cookies support signed-in-only surfaces
• Facebook Marketplace Scraper — extract listings from Facebook Marketplace by location with price filtering

Cost estimate

This Actor uses no browser — just lightweight HTTP requests.

Event	Cost
Actor start	$0.005 (one-time per run)
Profile scraped	$0.005/profile
Post extracted	$0.0035/post on Free; $0.003/$0.00225/$0.002/$0.0015/$0.001 on Bronze through Diamond
Cache check (Smart Scrape skip)	$0.001/post

Volume discounts available at higher tiers.

Is it legal to scrape Facebook profiles?

Our scrapers are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our scrapers, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe. However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

Limitations

• Only works with public profiles (private profiles return 0 posts)
• Unavailable profile and engagement metrics are returned as null, not a misleading zero or empty string
• Facebook may change internal APIs — report issues if extraction stops
• Facebook rate limits apply; residential proxies recommended
• Profile info fields like services depend on what the user has listed publicly