Facebook Group Posts Scraper 📱

Powerful scraper that extracts posts and related information from Facebook groups. Works with public groups.

🎯 Features

• Scrapes posts from any Facebook group you have access to
• Handles both public and private Facebook groups
• Supports login via cookies
• Built-in stealth and anti-detection mechanisms
• Configurable proxy support
• Customizable number of posts to scrape
• Random delays and human-like scrolling behavior

📊 Output Data

For each post, the scraper extracts:

• Post ID
• Post URL
• Post content/message
• Creation timestamp
• Author ID
• Author name
• Author profile URL

🔧 Input Parameters

💡 Use Cases

• Social media monitoring
• Market research
• Content analysis
• Community engagement tracking
• Competitor analysis
• Trend detection

🚀 Getting Started

1. Enter the Facebook group URL(s) you want to scrape
2. Set the maximum number of posts to collect (optional)
3. Configure proxy settings if needed
4. Run the actor and get structured data in your preferred format

⚠️ Important Notes

• Respect Facebook's terms of service and privacy policies
• Use appropriate delays between requests
• Make sure you have permission to access the groups you want to scrape
• Consider using proxies for large-scale scraping

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "groupUrls": [
3        "https://www.facebook.com/groups/1242309506256283/"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 50
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "postId": "1999533500533876",
4        "message": "NEWS: Tesla has announced that, effective February 1, all models in Canada will get huge price increases.\n\nPrice changes:\n• Model 3: $4,000-$9,000 increase (depending on trim)\n• Model Y: $4,000 increase on all trims\n• Model S/X: $4,000 increase on all trims",
5        "authorId": "100000021881982",
6        "authorName": "Jianchun Xu",
7        "authorUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/tellspringyan",
8        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/1242309506256283/permalink/1999533500533876/"
9    },
10    ...
11]