Facebook posts scraper
Pricing
$25.00/month + usage
Scrape facebook posts from profiles, pages, groups and search results. Get complete details such as author details, post text, attachments, engagement details, etc.
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$25.00/month + usage
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3.1
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Curious Coder
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You can access the Facebook posts scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
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Search URLs require cookies.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "scrapePhotos": { "title": "📷 Scrape all photos from posts", "type": "boolean", "description": "When enabled, scrapes all full-resolution photos from each post using Facebook's photo viewer API. This traverses the entire photo set, including photos not shown in the feed preview. Adds an 'all_photos' array to each post with URLs, dimensions, and captions.", "default": false }, "sortType": { "title": "Sort type", "enum": [ "most_relevant", "recent_activity", "new_posts" ], "type": "string", "description": "", "default": "new_posts" }, "scrapeUntil": { "title": "Scrape until date", "type": "string", "description": "Use this field if you want to only scrape posts newer than given date" }, "count": { "title": "#️⃣ Total number of records required", "type": "integer", "description": "Leave this field empty if you want to scrape all items." }, "cursors": { "title": "Start from cursors", "type": "array", "description": "Array of cursors to resume scraping, in the same order as urls (1st cursor for 1st URL, etc.). Use the cursors stored in the key-value store from a previous run to continue from where you left off.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "default": [] }, "outputFormat": { "title": "Output format", "enum": [ "raw", "simple" ], "type": "string", "description": "Choose 'raw' for complete nested Facebook data, or 'simple' for a clean flat structure with max 3 levels depth", "default": "raw" }, "cookie": { "title": "🍪 Cookies", "type": "array", "description": "Cookie used to authorize actor with facebook.com. Install [Cookie-Editor](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cookie-editor/hlkenndednhfkekhgcdicdfddnkalmdm) chrome extension. Login to your facebook.com account. Click on the extension and export the facebook.com cookies. 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