# Facebook Reels Scraper: Videos, Views & Audio (`deepmine/facebook-reels-scraper`) Actor

Facebook reels scraper: paste pages or reel links and get every reel with its caption, exact plays, likes, comments, shares, date, MP4 and audio links, captions and transcript, sound and remix info. No login, no cookies, no browser.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/deepmine/facebook-reels-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [DeepMine](https://apify.com/deepmine) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.55 / 1,000 facebook reels

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Facebook Reels Scraper: Videos, Views & Audio

**Facebook reels scraper** for creators, brands and analysts: paste a Facebook page (or single reel links) and get
every reel of its Reels tab, newest first, with its **caption, exact play count, likes, comments, shares, date,
length, MP4 and audio links, DASH manifest and qualities, captions and a plain-text transcript, sound and remix
info**. No login, no cookies, no browser.

| Page | Caption | Plays | Likes | Comments | Shares | Posted | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Geographic | Presented by ROLEX. Filmed over 4 years across 32… | 25,044 | 339 | 0 | 14 | 2026-10-18 | 58.3 s |
| National Geographic | Mobula rays sail through the water in the Sea of C… | 255,338 | 5,497 | 61 | 416 | 2026-10-18 | 32.8 s |
| NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | The aircraft lineup just keeps getting bigger. ✈️… | 256,573 | 1,356 | 55 | 110 | 2026-10-16 | 17.8 s |

<sub>Collected 2026-10-18.</sub>

### What you get

- **Every reel of a page:** its whole Reels tab, newest first, as deep as you ask (or a date window).
- **Exact counts, bound to the reel's own video:** plays (not the rounded "24K" the tab shows, which is in
  `playCountRounded` too), likes and each reaction type, comments, shares, Facebook's post views.
- **The video:** MP4 in HD and SD, the separate audio track, the DASH manifest with every quality (360p ... 1080p),
  width, height and length, the cover image.
- **Captions:** the captions file and its language(s), and the captions as plain text (`transcriptText`, free).
- **Sound and remix:** the sound's title and id, original audio or not, remix setting, reshare and its original
  creator.
- **Caption details:** hashtags, mentions, links, collaborators, paid-partnership flag, the top comments.
- **Author:** page name, id, link, picture, verified badge, followers, Ad Library id.
- **Drop-in for apify/facebook-reels-scraper:** its input keys (`startUrls`, `resultsLimit`,
  `onlyPostsNewerThan`) work as is, and every key of its rows is here under its own name (`post_id`, `message`,
  `playback_video`, `video_owner`, `soundtrack_info`, `track_title`, `remix_info`, `play_count`...).

### How to use it

1. Add pages (`https://www.facebook.com/natgeo`, `.../natgeo/reels/`, or just `natgeo`) and/or reel links
   (`facebook.com/reel/...`, `/videos/...`, `watch/?v=...`, share links, `fb.watch/...`).
2. **Max reels per page:** how many reels to read from each page, newest first (empty = all of them).
3. Optional: **Reels newer than** / **Reels older than** (a date, or e.g. `30 days`).
4. Run. One row per reel; a reel given twice (on its page and as a link) is one row.

A page Facebook shows as "content isn't available" (deleted, or restricted for logged-out visitors) fails its input
and costs nothing; a post link without a video isn't a reel.

### Pricing

Pay per reel in your dataset, nothing else: no start fee, transcripts included.

| Plan | Free | Starter | Scale | Business |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per 1,000 reels | $2.98 | $2.49 | $1.99 | $1.55 |

Each reel is charged once per run, also across restarts. Summary records (OUTPUT) are never charged.

### Output fields

One line per key, in row order. Links to Facebook's CDN (pictures, MP4s, audio, captions) are signed and expire
after a few days.

- `thumbnailUrl`: the reel's cover image
- `pageName`: the page or profile that posted it
- `text`, `textSnippet`: the caption, and its first 50 characters
- `url`: the reel's link
- `playCount`: exact plays, from the reel's own post; `playCountRounded`: the Reels tab's rounded count
- `viewsCount`: views as apify's Facebook Actors give them (= plays); `videoPostViewCount`: Facebook's view count
- `likes`, `comments`, `shares`: engagement counts
- `time`: when it was posted (UTC)
- `videoDurationSeconds`, `videoWidth`, `videoHeight`, `videoOrientation`: length, size, Portrait/Landscape/Square
- `videoUrl`, `videoSdUrl`: the MP4 in HD and SD; `audioUrl`: the audio track; `dashManifestUrl`: the DASH manifest;
  `videoQualities`: every quality it streams in
- `captionsUrl`, `captionsLocale`, `captionsLocales`: the captions file and its languages; `transcriptText`: the
  captions as text (when the reel has captions)
- `musicTitle`, `musicId`, `musicType`, `musicAlbumArtUrl`, `isOriginalAudio`: the sound
- `isRemixable`, `remixStatus`, `isReshare`, `reshareCreator`: remix and reshare info
- `reactionLikeCount` ... `reactionAngryCount`, `topReactionsCount`: reactions by type
- `hashtags`, `mentions`, `textLinks`, `collaborators`, `paidPartnership`: caption details
- `topComments`, `topCommentsAuthors`, `topCommentsDetails`: the comments Facebook shows first
- `userName`, `userId`, `userProfileUrl`, `userProfilePic`, `isVerified`, `pageFollowers`, `pageAdLibraryId`,
  `isBusinessPageActive`: the author (`pageFollowers` rounded as Facebook's page box shows it: "51M")
- `postId`, `videoId`, `feedbackId`, `topLevelUrl`, `topLevelReelUrl`, `timestamp`: ids and links
- `facebookUrl`, `inputUrl`: the page (or link) it was read from, and your input
- then apify/facebook-reels-scraper's own keys, as Facebook names them: `post_id`, `creation_time`, `message`,
  `video`, `play_count`, `play_count_reduced`, `attachments`, `tracking`, `self_view_boost`,
  `if_should_change_url_for_reels`, `shareable_url`, `playback_video`, `video_owner`, `video_owner_type`,
  `fb_shorts_reshare_context`, `remix_info`, `soundtrack_info`, `track_title`, `music_album_art_uri`,
  `is_original_audio_on_facebook`, `is_passive_content`, `id`, `feedback`, `to`, `sponsored_data`,
  `transparency_ad_info`, `post_collaboration`, `save_info`, `serialized_frtp_identifiers`, `legal_reporting_uri`,
  `legal_reporting_cta_type`, `if_viewer_can_see_stars_toggle_menu_option`, `fb_reel_react_button`,
  `encrypted_tracking`, `encrypted_click_tracking`, `debug_info`, `click_tracking_linkshim_cb` and the
  `can_viewer_*` flags (`attachments` leave out the delivery block they repeat from `playback_video`;
  `is_passive_content` and `fb_reel_react_button` aren't in the logged-out answers this Actor reads, so they stay
  empty)
- `scrapedAt`: when the run read the reel

Views: 📊 Overview, 📈 Stats, 🎬 Video Files, 🗒️ Captions, 🎵 Sound & Remix. The run's OUTPUT record says, per input,
how many reels were read and delivered, why it stopped, and what failed.

### Other Facebook scrapers

Facebook Posts Scraper (every post of a page), Facebook Comments Scraper, Facebook Pages Scraper (contacts and
business details), Facebook Groups Scraper and Facebook Marketplace Scraper, from the same engine.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

A page or profile (<code>https://www.facebook.com/natgeo</code>, or just <code>natgeo</code>) for its Reels tab, newest first; or single reels: reel, video, watch, share and fb.watch links.

## `resultsLimit` (type: `integer`):

Reels to read from each page, newest first, e.g. 100. Empty = every reel on the page's Reels tab. A reel link is always one reel.

## `onlyPostsNewerThan` (type: `string`):

Only reels posted after this date, e.g. 2026-09-01 or 30 days. The run stops reading a page at its first older reels. Empty = any date.

## `captionText` (type: `boolean`):

Adds transcriptText: each reel's captions as plain text, when the reel has captions. Free.

## `onlyPostsOlderThan` (type: `string`):

Only reels posted before this date, e.g. 2026-01-01 or 1 year. Empty = up to now.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Calls at once (a Reels tab page's 10 post reads, the next pages' alongside).

## `residentialFallback` (type: `boolean`):

Calls every datacenter IP refused are asked again on residential IPs.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Leave as is: Apify Proxy datacenter IPs read every reel.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/natgeo"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1557618349384047/"
    }
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 100,
  "captionText": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 16,
  "residentialFallback": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.facebook.com/natgeo"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1557618349384047/"
        }
    ],
    "resultsLimit": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("deepmine/facebook-reels-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/natgeo" },
        { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1557618349384047/" },
    ],
    "resultsLimit": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("deepmine/facebook-reels-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/natgeo"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1557618349384047/"
    }
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 100
}' |
apify call deepmine/facebook-reels-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,deepmine/facebook-reels-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/bUzkNCLE8ClmsYSxU/builds/h2RBuWYtDbyxLZVDd/openapi.json