The Facebook posts scraper is an Apify actor designed to extract facebook posts from a profile, page, group, etc. With this actor, you can effortlessly gather valuable data from Facebook posts for various purposes, such as market research, lead generation, and competitor analysis.

Getting started

1. Install Cookie-Editor chrome extension
2. Login to your facebook account (optional)
3. While you are on facebook tab, Click on the extension and export the cookies (optional)
4. Paste the cookies to this actor's Cookie input field (optional)
5. Specify the Facebook profile or group URL you want to scrape posts from.
6. Set pagination limits to determine the number of pages to scrape.
7. Configure proxy settings for enhanced reliability.
8. Run the actor and obtain the extracted data in your preferred format.

The Facebook posts Scraper actor is an invaluable tool for businesses, researchers, and marketers seeking to gain insights from Facebook posts. By automating the data extraction process, it simplifies the task of collecting post information and empowers you to make data-driven decisions based on the extracted data.

Sample data

Here is the sample json output of this actor:

1{
2	"createdAt": 1715352299,
3	"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldemailmasterclass/permalink/844179877727334/",
4	"user": {
5		"id": "100003654639487",
6		"name": "James Kricked Parr",
7		"url": "https://www.facebook.com/krickedart"
8	},
9	"text": "Hiring 2 talented VAs: 1 api/webhooks/ghl/clay PRO and 1 data filtering PRO with extreme attention to detail, will also work on instantly subsequences too. Drop 'yes me' if that's u👇",
10	"attachments": [],
11	"reactionCount": 12,
12	"shareCount": 0,
13	"commentCount": 25,
14	"topComments": [
15		{
16			"text": "Yes me",
17			"createdAt": 1715352417,
18			"author": {
19				"name": "Azhar Kamal",
20				"id": "100005206265467",
21				"gender": "MALE",
22				"url": "https://www.facebook.com/mak.megamind",
23				"profilePicture": "https://scontent.fblr1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/306762469_2023046817878841_2432511838240140780_n.jpg?stp=cp0_dst-jpg_p64x64&_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=NuvXtvmit-QQ7kNvgGPDz2l&_nc_ht=scontent.fblr1-3.fna&oh=00_AYC-QmJnkieZkDey6vXF7XhQdna_hUz7mQPKt7O_kQn_4w&oe=6646F894",
24				"shortName": "Azhar",
25				"isVerified": false
26			},
27			"reactionCount": 1,
28			"commentCount": 2,
29			"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldemailmasterclass/permalink/844179877727334/?comment_id=844197721058883"
30		},
31		{
32			"text": "Let me know when you need that Clay knowledge:)",
33			"createdAt": 1715366101,
34			"author": {
35				"name": "Josh Whitfield",
36				"id": "100005815925914",
37				"gender": "MALE",
38				"url": "https://www.facebook.com/ragevmachine",
39				"profilePicture": "https://scontent.fblr1-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/355892298_2148165328720644_7118474293467825230_n.jpg?stp=cp0_dst-jpg_p64x64&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=DQc0czDR3O8Q7kNvgHwsY9k&_nc_ht=scontent.fblr1-4.fna&oh=00_AYAYthUj7wXjeY3-_WjLVUTVxLHGUXJXTnq00h8hfsx1Fw&oe=6646D1FD",
40				"shortName": "Josh",
41				"isVerified": true
42			},
43			"reactionCount": 3,
44			"commentCount": 2,
45			"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldemailmasterclass/permalink/844179877727334/?comment_id=844314761047179"
46		}
47	]
48}

Integrations

You can use Make to integrate Facebook post scraper to any other SaaS platform by designing your own automation flows.

Facebook posts API

The actor stores results in a dataset. You can export data in various formats such as CSV, JSON, XLS, etc. You can scrape and access data on demand using API. For more information, Go to Facebook post scraper API integration page

How much will it cost me to scrape Facebook posts ?

Based on historical data our scraper costs an average of $0.73 per thousand Facebook posts as usage credits. You can scrape upto 67,000 Facebook posts per month with Apify starter plan

Your feedback

We’re always working on improving the performance of our Actors. So if you’ve got any technical feedback for this scraper or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the actor’s Issues tab in Apify Console

For additional information you can email us at heycuriouscoder@gmail.com