# Facebook Followers Following Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🌐👥 (`delectable_incubator/facebook-followers-following-scraper-low-cost`) Actor

Scrape Facebook followers and following data 🌐📊 from pages and profiles with a powerful social media scraper. Extract names, profile URLs, follow types, profile images, and more. Ideal for audience analysis, influencer research, lead generation, CRM enrichment, and social media intelligence 🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/facebook-followers-following-scraper-low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media, Automation
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
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```bash

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# README

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="Facebook Followers & Following Scraper" width="100%">
</p>

---

## Facebook Followers & Following Scraper 👥📊📘

The Facebook Followers & Following Scraper is a powerful and scalable Apify Actor designed to extract structured followers and following data directly from Facebook profiles and pages.

It enables audience analysis, influencer research, competitor monitoring, lead generation, social media intelligence, community tracking, automation workflows, and structured follower dataset generation from Facebook.

---

### 🎯 What This Scraper Does

Simply provide one or more Facebook profile URLs and the scraper handles everything automatically.

✅ Extracts Facebook followers or following lists

✅ Supports bulk profile URL scraping

✅ Works with profiles and pages

✅ Handles authentication-required pages

✅ Automatically processes followers/following lists

✅ Applies maxItemsPerUrl limits

✅ Extracts profile metadata and public details

✅ Captures profile images and profile URLs

✅ Collects gender and location information when available

✅ Generates clean and structured datasets

✅ Ready for analytics and lead generation workflows

✅ Export-ready output format

---

### 📊 Data Extracted

#### 👤 Followers / Following Information

| Field                | Description                  |
| -------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| 🆔 id                | Facebook profile identifier  |
| 👤 name              | Profile full name            |
| 🖼️ image_uri        | Profile image URL            |
| 🌐 profile_url       | Facebook profile URL         |
| 📍 subtitle_text     | Profile location or subtitle |
| 🚻 gender            | Gender information           |
| 🤝 friendship_status | Friendship status            |
| ✂️ short_name        | Short profile name           |

---

### 🛠 How to Use

#### 1️⃣ Configure Input

Provide one or multiple Facebook profile URLs:

````

{
"bulk\_urls": \[
"https://www.facebook.com/successwithluke",
"https://www.facebook.com/darinstevenson"
],
"max\_items\_per\_url": 50,
"types": "Followers 👥"
}

```

#### 2️⃣ Run the Actor

• Loads Facebook profile pages
• Processes followers or following lists automatically
• Extracts structured profile information
• Collects metadata and profile URLs
• Applies maxItemsPerUrl limits
• Stops automatically when limits are reached

#### 3️⃣ Export the Dataset

Download your results in multiple formats:

✅ JSON
✅ CSV
✅ Excel
✅ XML
✅ HTML

---

### ⚙️ Input Configuration

#### 📥 Input Example

```

{
"bulk\_urls": \[
"https://www.facebook.com/successwithluke"
],
"max\_items\_per\_url": 50,
"types": "Followers 👥"
}

```

#### Input Fields

| Field             | Type    | Description                                                  |
| ----------------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| bulk_urls         | array   | List of Facebook profile/page URLs                           |
| max_items_per_url | integer | Maximum number of followers/following to collect per profile |
| types             | string  | Choose Followers or Following                                |

---

### 📤 Output Example

```

{
"id": "YXBwX2l0ZW06MTAwMDAzNTAwODY1ODgyOjIzNTYzMTgzNDk6MzM6OjEwMDAxMDcwNDA0NjAwOQ==",
"name": "Alex Proyas",
"image\_uri": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/profile.jpg",
"profile\_url": "https://www.facebook.com/RealAlexProyas",
"subtitle\_text": "Sydney, Australia",
"gender": "MALE",
"friendship\_status": "CAN\_REQUEST",
"short\_name": "Alex"
}

````

---

### 📊 Output Explanation

| Use Case                     | Description                            |
| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| 📈 Audience Analysis         | Analyze followers and communities      |
| 🏁 Competitor Monitoring     | Monitor competitor audiences           |
| 💼 Lead Generation           | Build targeted prospect lists          |
| 🤝 Influencer Research       | Analyze influencer communities         |
| 📊 Social Media Intelligence | Study audience behavior and engagement |
| 🤖 Automation Pipelines      | Feed follower datasets into workflows  |

---

### 🌍 Why Use This Scraper?

📊 Scrape followers and following lists at scale

👥 Analyze audience demographics and engagement

🏁 Monitor competitors and influencers

⚡ Fast and automated extraction

🤖 Automation-ready structured output

📦 Bulk profile scraping support

🔒 Works even with authentication-required pages

🧠 Ideal for marketers, agencies, analysts, and researchers

🚀 Scalable for both small and enterprise workloads

---

### ❓ FAQ

#### How does this scraper work?

The scraper loads Facebook profile pages and extracts structured followers or following information including names, profile URLs, profile images, locations, and additional metadata.

#### Can I scrape multiple profiles in one run?

Yes. You can provide multiple Facebook profile URLs inside the bulk_urls array.

#### Can I scrape both followers and following?

Yes. Use the types field to select either Followers 👥 or Following 👥.

#### Does the scraper require authentication?

Yes. Facebook authentication credentials are required to access certain follower/following pages.

#### Does the scraper support Facebook pages?

Yes. Both Facebook profiles and pages are supported.

#### What export formats are supported?

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and HTML.

#### Is the data collected live?

Yes. Data is extracted directly from Facebook during every run.

#### Can I use the extracted data commercially?

Yes. The extracted data can be used for analytics, research, lead generation, automation, and commercial workflows.

#### What happens if the scraper fails?

The Actor includes retry mechanisms and automated error handling to improve reliability.

#### How long does a run take?

Most runs complete within minutes depending on the number of profiles and requested results.

---

### 🚀 How to Use

1️⃣ Sign up — Create a free Apify account

2️⃣ Find the tool — Search for "Facebook Followers & Following Scraper" in the Apify Store

3️⃣ Configure URLs — Add one or multiple Facebook profile URLs

4️⃣ Run it — Start the Actor and wait for extraction

5️⃣ Export data — Download results in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML

---

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is an independent solution and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Facebook or Meta Platforms, Inc.

---

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay-per-result pricing model**.

You only pay for successfully extracted records.

💳 **Price:** $2.89 / 1,000 results

---

### Related Actors

If you're interested in other Social Media, Lead Generation, Analytics, or Automation scraping solutions, explore more tools:

(Coming Soon)

---

### 📬 Support

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a 5-star rating if you like this tool

---

### 🌍 PrimeScrape

Built for scalable web data extraction & automation.

Contact us for custom scraping solutions or enterprise requests via Apify or by email.

# Actor input Schema

## `email` (type: `string`):

Your Facebook account email address 📧
## `password` (type: `string`):

Your Facebook account password 🔒
## `bulk_urls` (type: `array`):

List of Facebook profile URLs to scrape followers/following from. Examples: • https://www.facebook.com/successwithluke • https://www.facebook.com/darinstevenson ⚠️ Each URL must be from facebook.com.
## `max_items_per_url` (type: `integer`):

The maximum number of followers/following to fetch for each profile 🔢
## `types` (type: `string`):

The type of relation to scrape

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "email": "youremail@gmail.com",
  "bulk_urls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/successwithluke"
  ],
  "max_items_per_url": 50,
  "types": "Followers 👥"
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (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 = {
    "email": "youremail@gmail.com",
    "bulk_urls": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/successwithluke"
    ],
    "max_items_per_url": 50,
    "types": "Followers 👥"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/facebook-followers-following-scraper-low-cost").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 = {
    "email": "youremail@gmail.com",
    "bulk_urls": ["https://www.facebook.com/successwithluke"],
    "max_items_per_url": 50,
    "types": "Followers 👥",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/facebook-followers-following-scraper-low-cost").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "email": "youremail@gmail.com",
  "bulk_urls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/successwithluke"
  ],
  "max_items_per_url": 50,
  "types": "Followers 👥"
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/facebook-followers-following-scraper-low-cost --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=delectable_incubator/facebook-followers-following-scraper-low-cost",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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        "version": "0.0",
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    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
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    "paths": {
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                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
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                "tags": [
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                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
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                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
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    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "email",
                    "password",
                    "bulk_urls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "email": {
                        "title": "Facebook account email 📧",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Your Facebook account email address 📧"
                    },
                    "password": {
                        "title": "Facebook account password 🔒",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Your Facebook account password 🔒"
                    },
                    "bulk_urls": {
                        "title": "Profile URLs 🚨 (check if the profile has visible followers/following) 👀",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "List of Facebook profile URLs to scrape followers/following from. Examples: • https://www.facebook.com/successwithluke • https://www.facebook.com/darinstevenson ⚠️ Each URL must be from facebook.com.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "max_items_per_url": {
                        "title": "Max followers/following per profile 🔢",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "The maximum number of followers/following to fetch for each profile 🔢",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "types": {
                        "title": "Relation type (Choose Followers or Following)",
                        "enum": [
                            "Followers 👥",
                            "Following 👥"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The type of relation to scrape",
                        "default": "Followers 👥"
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
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                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
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                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
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                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
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                                    "diskMbytes": {
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                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
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                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                        "example": 0
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                                "properties": {
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                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```