Facebook Events Scraper - Events by Keyword, City or Page

Search public Facebook events by keyword or city, or paste event, Page and Group links, and get one row per event: name, description, start and end time with the timezone, venue and coordinates, organiser, ticket link and how many people said they are going.

The number to plan around: Facebook's public events search hands back about eight events per search term. One term is a sample, not a sweep. Several terms, a city, or a list of Pages is what makes a run worth doing.

Input	Search terms, a city, or event, Page and Group links
Output	One row per event: name, description, start and end time, timezone, venue, coordinates, organisers, ticket link, going and interested counts
Ceiling	1,000 events per run, about 8 per search term
Account needed	None from you
Price	$0.90 per 1,000 events, flat on every plan. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 5,500

🔍 What Facebook Events Scraper does

Each search term is run in turn, a city narrows them, and anything you paste into startUrls is followed as well. An event found twice, once by search and once from its organiser's Page, is delivered once and charged once.

Then every event that makes the cut is opened for the full detail. That is where the description, the exact times, the venue coordinates, the organisers and the ticket link come from, rather than the thin card the search results carry.

A city name is matched against Facebook's own location list, and a few well-known names land in the wrong place: Rome, Hamburg, Brussels, Warsaw and Bristol can resolve to same-named towns in the United States, and San Diego to a different town altogether. If the city matters, open Facebook events in your browser, pick the city there, and paste that events/explore/ URL into location instead.

📋 What data you get from each Facebook event

What you get	Field
The event, its link and its description	eventId, eventUrl, name, description
When it starts and ends	startTime, startTimestamp, endTime, endTimestamp, timezone, dateText
Where it happens	venueName, venueAddress, venueCity, venueUrl, latitude, longitude
Online or not, cancelled or past	isOnline, onlineUrl, isCanceled, isPast
Who is hosting it	organizers, organizerName, organizerUrl
Tickets	ticketUrl, priceRange
Going, interested and the two together	attendingCount, interestedCount, respondedCount
Cover image and categories	coverImageUrl, categories
Which of your inputs found it	sourceType, sourceQuery, sourceUrl

▶️ How to scrape Facebook events

1. Open Facebook Events Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Put what you are looking for into Search terms, one per line, and a city into City or location if it matters.
3. Set Maximum events. Start at 20 while you look at the output.
4. Click Start.
5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it from the Apify API.

Run it with empty input and you get one labelled sample row, which is not charged, so you can see the shape before you spend anything.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Facebook events?

$0.90 per 1,000 events. The same rate on every Apify plan, no volume tiers. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 5,500 events.

You pay for events that come back with detail. The sample row, every diagnostic row, events dropped by your date window or your filters, and an event found twice through two different inputs are not charged, and neither is a search that finds nothing.

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchTerms": ["music festival", "food festival"],
  "location": "Berlin",
  "maxEvents": 20,
  "startingBefore": "30 days"
}

Field	Default	What it is
searchTerms	none	What to search for: concert, food festival, music festival. Up to 20 terms, each searched in turn.
location	none	A city name, or an events/explore/ URL for an exact area. A name Facebook does not know is folded into the search text, and a free note row tells you so.
startUrls	none	Any mix of event links, Page links or handles whose events you want, Group links, a search URL you built in the browser, or a city explore URL. Up to 50.
maxEvents	empty, runs as 20	Total events across everything above, 1 to 1,000. This is your spend ceiling.
startingFrom, startingBefore	none	The window on the start time. 2026-09-01, a full timestamp, an epoch, or a window like 30 days, which counts forward from now; add ago to count back. Anything it cannot read as a date switches that end off. Filtered events are never charged.
category	none	One of Facebook's own event categories, from music to gardening. Search terms only.
onlineOnly	off	Only events Facebook marks as online.
paidOnly	off	Only ticketed events. Search terms only.
includePastEvents	off	Also read a Page's or Group's past events. Off means upcoming only.
proxyUrls	none	Optional. One URL per line if you want the traffic to leave through servers you already pay for.
sessionCookies	none	Optional, and most runs never touch it. Runs are logged out by default, which is enough for public Facebook content. Your own c_user and xs pair is for what Facebook shows only to a signed-in account: the run then uses your account and your own rate limit, shared with nobody. Treat the values like a password.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a run on 21 September 2026, with the cover link and the category link trimmed:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "event",
  "eventId": "2296861047800608",
  "eventUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/events/2296861047800608/",
  "name": "Pakistan Music Festival 2026",
  "description": "Join us for the Pakistan Music Festival 2026, happening on 25, 26 & 27 September at 8 PM at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi. ...",
  "startTime": "2026-09-25T15:00:00.000Z",
  "startTimestamp": 1790348400,
  "endTime": "2026-09-27T18:00:00.000Z",
  "endTimestamp": 1790532000,
  "timezone": "UTC+05",
  "dateText": "25 Sep at 20:00 – 27 Sep at 23:00 PKT",
  "venueName": "Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi",
  "venueAddress": null,
  "venueCity": null,
  "latitude": 24.85276668172,
  "longitude": 67.020439147949,
  "isOnline": false,
  "onlineUrl": null,
  "organizers": [
    { "id": "100067158235335", "name": "Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/ACPKHI", "type": "User" }
  ],
  "organizerName": "Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi",
  "organizerUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/ACPKHI",
  "ticketUrl": "http://www.acpkhi.com/events",
  "priceRange": null,
  "attendingCount": 67,
  "interestedCount": 557,
  "respondedCount": 624,
  "coverImageUrl": "https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/801786067_13878375...",
  "categories": [{ "label": "Music", "uri": "https://www.facebook.com/events/search/?filters=..." }],
  "isCanceled": false,
  "isPast": false,
  "sourceType": "search",
  "sourceQuery": "music festival",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/events/search/?q=music+festival",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T01:29:28.847Z"
}

Field	How to read it
eventId, eventUrl	Your key and the public link.
startTime, endTime, timezone, dateText	ISO times in UTC, with the epoch versions beside them, the event's own timezone, and the date line exactly as Facebook prints it locally.
venueName, venueAddress, venueCity, venueUrl	The place, as far as the organiser filled it in. Plenty of events name a venue and no street.
latitude, longitude	Coordinates where Facebook has them, ready to map or to match against a radius.
organizers, organizerName, organizerUrl	Every host with its id, name, link and type. The two flat fields are the first one.
ticketUrl, priceRange	The outbound ticket link and the price line where the organiser published one.
attendingCount, interestedCount, respondedCount	Going, interested, and the two added together. Facebook rounds these on busy events.
isOnline, onlineUrl, isCanceled, isPast	Whether it is online and where, and whether it is cancelled or already over.
sourceType, sourceQuery, sourceUrl	Which of your inputs found this event: search, city, page, group or url. Useful when you run twenty terms at once.

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Row	How to spot it	Billed
An event	ok: true and charged: true	yes
The sample row	_sample: true	no
A diagnostic	_diagnostic: true and an errorCode	no

Filter on charged == true and you have your data. The sample row says recordType: "event" too, so charged is the flag to trust.

errorCode	What happened
BAD_INPUT	An entry could not be read as an event, Page, Group or search link.
LOCATION_UNRESOLVED	Facebook has no location by that name, so the city was folded into the search text.
NO_RESULTS	The search ran and found nothing, or your filters dropped everything. The row carries the count it found first.
NOT_FOUND	No public event at that link.
BLOCKED	Facebook would not serve that page on this run. Re-running usually clears it.
PARSE_FAILED	The page came back in a shape the run could not read.
NETWORK	Facebook could not be reached.
TIME_BUDGET	The run ran out of time before finishing that job.
PROXY_INPUT_ADJUSTED	A proxyConfiguration setting this actor does not use was dropped. The run carried on.
CHARGE_ERROR	A billing event could not be recorded. Told to you rather than hidden.
UNEXPECTED_ERROR	Anything else, with the message attached.

One quirk of the Console's Overview table: it shows the name, times and venue, so coordinates, organisers, tickets and attendance read as missing there. Open the row or download the JSON and they are all present.

💡 What people use it for

• Building a what's-on list for one city and one month, with venues and ticket links attached.
• Finding sponsorship and stall opportunities: search a category, filter to ticketed, read organizerUrl.
• Watching the events a set of Pages is hosting, by pasting the Pages rather than searching.
• Feeding a map: latitude and longitude are on the row, so events plot without geocoding.

From a city's events to the people running them, in three steps:

1. Run this on a city with a few search terms.
2. Copy the organizerUrl of the events you care about.
3. Paste them into Facebook Page Contact Info Scraper as startUrls for each organiser's website, e-mail and phone.

🚧 What it does not do

• No guest lists. Facebook never publishes who is going, only how many.
• Search is shallow. About eight events per term is what the public search returns. Depth comes from more terms and more Pages, not from a bigger number in maxEvents.
• category and paidOnly apply to search terms only. Events reached through a Page, Group, city or event link come back whatever their category or price, and they are charged like any other row. Filter those in your own sheet.
• Private, group-only and invite-gated events are invisible, as they are to anyone not signed in and invited.
• Recurring series are not expanded. A weekly event is one event, the way Facebook lists it.
• You can get fewer events than you asked for. Past events are only recognised once the full detail is read, and a run does not go back for replacements after dropping them.
• Attendance counts are rounded on busy events, because Facebook rounds them before publishing.
• Some two-word phrases return nothing at all. Try the broader word on its own before assuming there are no events.

🧭 Which events scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Public Facebook events by keyword, city or link	This one
The website, e-mail and phone of the organiser's Page	Facebook Page Contact Info Scraper
Recent posts from a Page	Facebook Posts Scraper
Posts from a public group	Facebook Groups Scraper
Upcoming Eventbrite events in a city	Eventbrite Events Scraper
Luma events by city, calendar or link	Luma Events Scraper
Trade shows, conferences and expos	10Times Events Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Facebook account to scrape events?

No. Runs are logged out by default, and that is enough for public events. sessionCookies is for what Facebook shows only to a signed-in account: your own cookie then uses your account and your own rate limit.

How do I get more events for one city?

Run several search terms against it, add the Pages of the venues you care about, and paste the city's events/explore/ URL rather than typing the name.

Why did my city return events somewhere else?

A few city names match the wrong town. Paste the events/explore/ URL for the city instead, and the run uses exactly that area.

Can I get past events?

From a Page or Group, yes, with includePastEvents. Search itself is about what is coming up.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

Yes. The API tab has ready-made code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/facebook-events-scraper. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price.

Is scraping Facebook events legal?

This reads public events only. Organiser details are still personal data under GDPR and similar laws, so have a reason for collecting them. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Paste the search term or link you used and the run ID, and the log is enough for us to see what happened.