Facebook Group Profile Scraper 📊

Powerful scraper that extracts comprehensive information from Facebook Groups. Get detailed insights about any public Facebook group including membership stats, activity metrics, admin details, and more.

Features ✨

• Extract basic group information (ID, name, URL, description)
• Get group activity metrics (daily posts, monthly posts, total members)
• Collect admin and moderator profiles
• Retrieve group privacy settings and visibility info
• Access group creation date and history
• Get group rules and guidelines
• Support for multiple group URLs in one run
• Proxy support for reliable scraping

Output Data Structure 📋

The actor provides detailed JSON output for each group including:

• Group ID and basic info
• Membership statistics
• Activity metrics
  • New posts today
  • Posts in last month
  • Total member count
  • New member growth
• Administrative information
  • Admin profiles
  • Moderator profiles
• Privacy and visibility settings
• Group rules and guidelines

Use Cases 🎯

• Market Research: Analyze Facebook communities in your industry
• Community Analysis: Track group growth and engagement metrics
• Competitor Research: Monitor competing groups' activities
• Social Media Marketing: Identify active communities in your niche
• Lead Generation: Find relevant groups for your business
• Academic Research: Study online communities and social behavior

Input Parameters 🔧

• groupUrls: Array of Facebook group URLs to scrape
• proxyConfiguration: Proxy settings for reliable scraping (optional)

Tips 💡

• Make sure to use proxies for better reliability
• Respect Facebook's terms of service and rate limits
• Only scrape public groups that you have access to
• Consider using maxItems parameter for initial testing

Need help? Feel free to reach out through Apify issues!

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

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

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        "groupId": "1242309506256283",
4        "groupName": "Tesla",
5        "groupUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/1242309506256283/",
6        "groupDescription": "",
7        "groupCreatedTime": "2021-12-12T16:31:22.000Z",
8        "activity": {
9            "newPostsToday": 29,
10            "newPostsLastMonth": 690,
11            "totalMembers": "325,331 total members",
12            "newMembersLastWeek": "+ 1,775 in the last week"
13        },
14        "about": {
15            "privacyInfo": {
16                "text": "Public",
17                "description": "Anyone can see who's in the group and what they post."
18            },
19            "discoverabilityInfo": {
20                "text": "Visible",
21                "description": "Anyone can find this group."
22            },
23            "history": {
24                "text": "History",
25                "description": ""
26            },
27            "tags": {
28                "text": "Tags",
29                "description": ""
30            }
31        },
32        "adminProfiles": [
33            {
34                "name": "Jianchun Xu",
35                "url": "https://www.facebook.com/tellspringyan"
36            },
37            {
38                "name": "Adrian Bino",
39                "url": "https://www.facebook.com/adrian.bino.1"
40            }
41        ],
42        "moderatorsProfiles": [
43            {
44                "name": "Jarret Fink",
45                "url": "https://www.facebook.com/jarret.fink"
46            },
47            {
48                "name": "Anthony Martini Jr.",
49                "url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003405140266"
50            },
51            {
52                "name": "Tesla Shareholder",
53                "url": "https://www.facebook.com/evergreen.pei"
54            }
55        ]
56    }
57]