Facebook Reels Scraper - Page Reels, Views and Links

Give it Facebook Page links and get every reel the Page has posted, newest first: the reel link, the video file, the thumbnail, the caption and hashtags, the length, the posting time and the counts underneath.

The Reels tab on a Page shows ten and stops. This keeps going, up to 200 per Page. The honest part is the counts: reactions and comments come back exact, while views and shares are rounded by Facebook before anyone can read them, so 65K is as precise as the public page gets.

Input	Page links or handles, up to 50 per run
Output	One row per reel: reel link, video file, thumbnail, caption, hashtags, length, posting time, views, reactions, comments, shares
Ceiling	200 reels per Page
Account needed	None from you
Price	$0.35 per 1,000 reels on the free plan, down to $0.335 on Business. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 14,000

🔍 What Facebook Reels Scraper does

It opens the Page's Reels tab as a signed-out visitor sees it, takes the first batch out of the data already in the page, then pages for the rest until it reaches your limit or the Page runs out.

The same reel found through two spellings of the same Page is delivered once and charged once, keyed on the Page and reel ids together. Hashtags are pulled out of the caption for you, without the #.

Give it the Page, not a single reel. A /reel/<id> link on its own is rejected with an explanation, because there is no Page in it to walk.

📋 What data you get from each Facebook reel

What you get	Field
The reel's ids and permalink	reelId, reelUrl, postId
The video file and the cover image	videoUrl, thumbnailUrl, previewImageUrl
The caption and its hashtags	caption, captionLength, hashtags
When it was posted	time, timestamp
Views, reactions, comments and shares	viewCount, viewCountText, reactionsCount, commentsCount, sharesCount, sharesCountText
Length and shape	durationMs, durationSeconds, width, height, aspectRatio
The sound, and whether it is a reshare or paid	audioTitle, audioIsOriginal, isReshare, isSponsored
The Page it came from	pageName, pageId, pageUrl, pageIsVerified, pageProfilePicture, inputUrl

▶️ How to scrape Facebook reels

1. Open Facebook Reels Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Put your Pages into Facebook Page URLs, one per line.
3. Set Reels per Page. Start at 50 and raise it once you have seen 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 reels?

$0.35 per 1,000 reels. That is the free plan's price; paid plans pay a little less: $0.345 on Starter, $0.34 on Scale and $0.335 on Business. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 14,000 reels.

You pay for reels that come back with data. The sample row, every diagnostic row, reels dropped by your date filters and the same reel reached twice through two spellings of a Page are not charged, and neither is a Page with no reels on it.

📥 What you give it

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/9gag"],
  "resultsLimit": 50,
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "30 days"
}

Field	Default	What it is
startUrls	none	Page links, one per line. A bare handle like 9gag, a Reels-tab link, a /pg/ link, a /p/ link and a profile.php?id= link all resolve. First 50 per run.
resultsLimit	50	Reels per Page, newest first. 1 to 200. The first read returns ten and the rest are paged, so a high number costs more time but works.
onlyPostsNewerThan	none	Drop reels older than this. A date (2026-08-01), a full timestamp, an epoch, or a window like 7 days. Dropped reels are never charged.
onlyPostsOlderThan	none	The other end of the window, same formats. Use both to pull one month.
proxyUrls	none	Optional. One URL per line if you want the traffic to leave through servers you already pay for.
sessionCookies	none	Optional. Reels tabs are read without an account. If Pages start coming back blocked, add your own c_user and xs pair and the run uses it for the Pages that need one. Treat the values like a password.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a run on 21 September 2026, with the media links trimmed:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "reel",
  "inputUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/9gag",
  "pageName": "9GAG",
  "pageId": "100064681269092",
  "pageUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/9gag/",
  "pageIsVerified": true,
  "reelId": "1613424853508131",
  "reelUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1613424853508131",
  "postId": "1566435732189121",
  "videoUrl": "https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/...",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/...",
  "previewImageUrl": "https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/806072546_158021194...",
  "caption": "\"not you!\" #9gag #blackdog",
  "captionLength": 26,
  "hashtags": ["9gag", "blackdog"],
  "time": "2026-09-20T23:33:01.000Z",
  "timestamp": 1789947181,
  "viewCount": 65000,
  "viewCountText": "65K",
  "reactionsCount": 1226,
  "commentsCount": 17,
  "sharesCount": 49,
  "sharesCountText": "49",
  "durationMs": 26965,
  "durationSeconds": 26.965,
  "width": 1080,
  "height": 1920,
  "aspectRatio": 0.5625,
  "audioTitle": "9GAG · Original audio",
  "audioIsOriginal": true,
  "isReshare": false,
  "isSponsored": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T01:25:04.740Z"
}

Field	How to read it
reelId, reelUrl	Your key, and the public /reel/ permalink.
videoUrl	The video file. Where Facebook publishes a direct link you get that one. Otherwise it is a lookaside.fbsbx.com link that may not play if you paste it into a browser tab; fetch it from code, or use the downloader below.
previewImageUrl	A signed link that expires, so fetch anything you mean to keep.
viewCount, viewCountText	Plays. viewCountText is Facebook's own display string ("65K") and viewCount is that string as a number, so 65000 is rounded, not exact.
reactionsCount, commentsCount	Exact, straight from the counters. null when Facebook does not publish them on that reel.
sharesCount, sharesCountText	Shares, rounded the same way views are.
audioIsOriginal, isReshare, isSponsored	Whether the sound is the Page's own, whether the reel is a reshare, and whether it is a paid placement.

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Row	How to spot it	Billed
A reel	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. That flag is what separates real rows from the sample and the diagnostics, not a receipt.

errorCode	What happened
BAD_INPUT	Not a Page link. A single /reel/ link lands here.
NOT_FOUND	No public Page at that link.
NO_REELS	The Page has no Reels tab, or nothing inside your date window. The row carries the filtered count.
BLOCKED	Facebook served something with no Page in it. Re-running usually clears it.
PARTIAL	Paging stopped early. The row says how many reels were delivered first, and those are the only ones charged.
NETWORK	Facebook could not be reached.
TIME_BUDGET	The run ran out of time before reaching that Page.
PROXY_INPUT_ADJUSTED	A connection 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 Page, the links and the caption, so the posting time, the counts and the duration read as missing there. Open the row or download the JSON and they are all present.

💡 What people use it for

• Watching what a competitor is shipping to Reels each week, with view counts attached.
• Finding the format that travels: sort a Page's 200 newest reels by viewCount and look at durationSeconds on the top ten.
• Building a caption and hashtag set from Pages in one niche, ready for a spreadsheet.
• Keeping an archive of your own Page's reels, thumbnails and links included.

From a Page's best reels to files you keep, in three steps:

1. Run this on the Page with resultsLimit at 200.
2. Sort on viewCount and copy the reelUrl of the top ten.
3. Paste them into Facebook Video Downloader for an MP4 of each, with a direct download link.

🚧 What it does not do

• Views and shares are rounded. 65K is what Facebook publishes, so 65000 is what you get. Reactions and comments are exact.
• No comment text. You get the comment count. The comments themselves are a separate actor, linked below.
• Public Pages only. Private, age-restricted and country-restricted Pages show a signed-out visitor nothing, and come back as an uncharged diagnostic row.
• A reel with no date on it stays in. If Facebook publishes no timestamp for a reel, a date window cannot judge it, so it is delivered and charged. Those rows sort last, after every dated reel that matched.
• 200 reels per Page. Past that the Page stops paging for a signed-out reader.
• The video link can expire or refuse a browser. Fetch the file if you want to keep it.
• Nothing is translated. Captions come back in the language they were written in.

🧭 Which Facebook scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Reels from a Page, past the visible ten	This one
Ordinary posts from a Page, with photos and links	Facebook Posts Scraper
The comments under a reel or post	Facebook Comments Scraper
A reel's video as an MP4, or its sound as an MP3	Facebook Video Downloader
Posts from a public group	Facebook Groups Scraper
The website, e-mail and phone on a Page	Facebook Page Contact Info Scraper
Reels from an Instagram profile	Instagram Reel Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Facebook account to scrape reels?

No. Reels tabs are read without an account. If Pages start coming back blocked, sessionCookies takes your own cookie and the run uses it for the Pages that need one.

Can I scrape one reel by its link?

Not here. Give the Page it sits on and filter the rows. For one reel's video file, the downloader in the table above takes a single reel link.

Why is viewCount a round number?

Because viewCountText is, and that display string is the only play count Facebook publishes. Nobody can give you the exact figure from a public page.

Why did a Page return nothing?

It has no Reels tab, everything is outside your date window, or it is restricted to signed-in visitors. The diagnostic row says which. Open the Page's Reels tab in a private browser window: what a signed-out visitor sees there is what this reads.

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-reels-scraper. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price.

Is scraping Facebook legal?

This reads public Pages only, never private content. Results can still contain personal data, which GDPR and similar laws cover, so have a reason for collecting it. 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 Page link you used and the run ID, and the log is enough for us to see what happened.