Facebook Comments Scraper - Replies, Reactions & Commenters

Facebook Comments Scraper extracts comments and replies from public Facebook posts, videos, reels, photos and group posts. Paste post links, get one row per comment with its text, date, reactions by type, reply count and the commenter's name, ID and picture. No login, no cookies, no browser, from $0.35 per 1,000 comments.

{
    "commentId": "481627996424606",
    "text": "This is one of my favorite stories to date. Good nutrition is at the heart of so many solutions. 💚",
    "date": "2021-08-15T20:01:24.000Z",
    "reactionCount": 442,
    "reactions": { "like": 368, "love": 71, "care": 3, "haha": 0, "wow": 0, "sad": 0, "angry": 0 },
    "replyCount": 8,
    "authorName": "Judie W.",
    "language": "en",
    "postAuthorName": "Humans of New York",
    "postCommentCount": 2806
}

1,716 comments and replies from 3 busy posts in 63 seconds, with post details, from Apify's own address: no proxy, no browser.

What does Facebook Comments Scraper do?

It reads the comments Facebook shows anyone who opens a public post, the same way Facebook's own website loads them, and returns them as clean rows you can export or feed to other tools. Each comment comes with exact reaction counts by type, its replies (and replies to replies) with their parent comment's ID, and the post it belongs to.

• Every kind of Facebook link. Posts (pfbid or numeric), permalink.php and story.php links, group posts, videos, watch links, reels, photos, share links (facebook.com/share/...) and fb.watch links.
• More than text. Reactions split into like, love, care, haha, wow, sad and angry, reply count, "Top fan" and other badges, verified flag, language, mentions, links, and stickers, GIFs, photos or links attached to a comment.
• Full threads. Replies and replies to replies, each with the ID of the comment it answers.
• Three orders and a date filter. All comments, Most relevant or Newest first, plus "only comments posted after" a date, which stops reading at the first older comment so you never pay for old ones.
• Monitoring mode. "Only comments new since the last run" returns just what was posted since your previous run on the same post: schedule it and get only the new comments each time.
• Only pay for results. Posts that are deleted, private or cannot be read return an error row and are never charged.
• Built for automation. Run it on a schedule, call it from the API, or connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets or an AI agent through Apify's MCP server.

Why it is fast and cheap

It asks Facebook's own comment service directly, ten comments per request, and reads each answer only as far as the comments go. There is no browser to start and no page to render, and Facebook answers these requests from Apify's own address, so no proxy is needed. That is why a comment costs a fraction of what browser-based scrapers charge, and why 1,000 comments of one post arrive in about a minute.

What data can you extract from Facebook comments?

Field	Example	What it is
text	This is one of my favorite stories...	The comment's full text
date	2021-08-15T20:01:24.000Z	When it was posted, ISO 8601 UTC
reactionCount	442	All reactions on the comment
reactions	{"like": 368, "love": 71, ...}	Exact counts per reaction type
replyCount	8	Replies under the comment
depth, isReply, parentCommentId	1, true, 481627996424606	Thread position: 0 = comment, 1 = reply, 2 = reply to a reply
position	1	Rank in Facebook's order for the post or thread
commentId, commentUrl	481627996424606	Facebook's ID of the comment and a direct link to it
authorName, authorId, authorUrl	Judie W.	The commenter (a person or a Page)
authorPictureUrl, authorType, authorVerified	User, false	Profile picture, person or Page, verified badge
authorBadges	["Top fan"]	Badges Facebook shows next to the name
language	en	Facebook's guess at the comment's language
mentions, mentionedIds, links	["Northern Michigan University"]	People and Pages tagged, and web addresses in the text
attachmentType, attachmentUrl, attachmentImageUrl, attachmentTitle	gif	A sticker, GIF, photo, video or link attached to the comment
postId, postUrl, postCommentCount	6375219342552112	The post the comment is on, and how many comments Facebook counts on it
postAuthorName, postAuthorId	Humans of New York	Who published the post
postText, postDate, postReactionCount, postShareCount	181816	With "Add post details": the post's full text, date, reactions and shares
input	your link	The link exactly as you entered it, so rows join back to your list
scrapedAt	2026-10-29T15:23:54Z	When this run started

How to scrape Facebook comments

1. Click Try for free and paste your Facebook post, video, reel or photo links into Posts, videos or reels, one per line.
2. Set Comments per post and, if you want them, Replies per comment. Max comments in total is your cost cap.
3. Click Start. 100 comments take about 5 seconds; 1,000 comments of one post about a minute.
4. Open the Output tab, or download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

How much does it cost to scrape Facebook comments?

You pay per comment or reply returned, and the price drops on higher Apify plans:

Apify plan	Per 1,000 comments
Free	$0.60
Starter	$0.50
Scale	$0.45
Business	$0.35

• 1,000 comments from ten posts on the Starter plan cost $0.50.
• Watching 20 posts every day with "only new comments", at about 50 new comments per post, is 1,000 comments a day: $0.50 a day on Starter, $0.35 on Business.
• A run also costs $0.00005 to start. Replies count as comments; post details, the date filter and monitoring mode cost nothing extra. A post that fails or has no comments costs nothing.
• The Free plan's $5 monthly credit covers about 8,000 comments.

Input

{
    "targets": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/posts/pfbid0BbKbkisExKGSKuhee9a7i86RwRuMKFC8NSkKStB7CsM3uXJuAAfZLrkcJMXxhH4Yl",
        "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1397741784161219"
    ],
    "maxCommentsPerPost": 200,
    "maxRepliesPerComment": 10,
    "sortOrder": "ALL",
    "commentsAfter": "30 days",
    "includePostDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 5000
}

Field	Default	Notes
Posts, videos or reels (targets)	an example post	Post, group post, video, watch, reel, photo, share or fb.watch links, or bare post IDs, one per line
Start URLs (startUrls)		The same in the URL-list shape other Actors output, for chaining
Max comments in total (maxItems)	1,000	Across all posts, replies included: your cost cap
Comments per post (maxCommentsPerPost)	100	Top-level comments per post, up to 100,000
Replies per comment (maxRepliesPerComment)	0	0 = no replies. Replies to replies are included and counted here
Comment order (sortOrder)	All comments	ALL, MOST_RELEVANT (Facebook filters likely spam) or NEWEST
Only comments posted after (commentsAfter)		A date (2026-01-31) or a span ("7 days"). Reads newest first and stops at the first older comment
Only comments new since the last run (onlyNewComments)	off	Remembers each post's newest comment in a key-value store in your account
Add post details (includePostDetails)	off	Post text, date, reaction and share counts on every row; one extra request per post
Concurrency, timeout, retries	5, 30 s, 2	Tuned already; no proxy settings needed

Coming from Apify's Facebook Comments Scraper? Its input names work here too: startUrls, resultsLimit (comments per post), includeNestedComments, viewOption (RANKED_UNFILTERED, RANKED_THREADED, RECENT_ACTIVITY) and onlyCommentsNewerThan.

Output

Each comment or reply is one row in the dataset. The Overview view shows the key columns, Threads shows replies under their parents, Commenters the people, Reactions and media the engagement and attachments, and With post details the post next to each comment. Every export includes all fields.

{
    "recordType": "comment",
    "input": "https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/posts/pfbid0BbKbkisExKGSKuhee9a7i86RwRuMKFC8NSkKStB7CsM3uXJuAAfZLrkcJMXxhH4Yl",
    "commentId": "481627996424606",
    "text": "This is one of my favorite stories to date. Good nutrition is at the heart of so many solutions. 💚",
    "date": "2021-08-15T20:01:24.000Z",
    "reactionCount": 442,
    "reactions": { "like": 368, "love": 71, "care": 3, "haha": 0, "wow": 0, "sad": 0, "angry": 0 },
    "replyCount": 8,
    "depth": 0,
    "isReply": false,
    "parentCommentId": null,
    "position": 1,
    "commentUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/posts/pfbid0BL1HE3YtM89apXKJyRPMefnqjF5EiiDwVjBYhgpKDcoQFvhHF5jdrocKE3GgqYQzl?comment_id=481627996424606",
    "authorName": "Judie W.",
    "authorId": "pfbid06PSNkF8GJ...",
    "authorUrl": null,
    "authorPictureUrl": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/...jpg",
    "authorType": "User",
    "authorVerified": false,
    "authorBadges": [],
    "language": "en",
    "mentions": [],
    "mentionedIds": [],
    "links": [],
    "attachmentType": null,
    "attachmentUrl": null,
    "attachmentImageUrl": null,
    "attachmentTitle": null,
    "postId": "6375219342552112",
    "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/posts/pfbid0BL1HE3YtM89apXKJyRPMefnqjF5EiiDwVjBYhgpKDcoQFvhHF5jdrocKE3GgqYQzl",
    "postCommentCount": 2806,
    "postAuthorName": "Humans of New York",
    "postAuthorId": "100050429952420",
    "postText": "(2/3) “I knew nothing about gardening. But I knew how to google, so I looked up some easy stuff to plant...",
    "postDate": "2021-08-15T19:50:37.000Z",
    "postReactionCount": 181816,
    "postShareCount": 9183,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T15:23:54.000Z"
}

A post that cannot be read becomes a row with "recordType": "error" and an errorCode instead of failing the whole run:

errorCode	Meaning
NOT_FOUND	The post does not exist, was deleted, or is not public (friends-only posts, private groups)
RATE_LIMITED / BLOCKED	Facebook refused this run's requests; run the post again later
FACEBOOK_ERROR	Facebook could not answer for this post

Error rows are never charged. A post that exists but has no comments returns no rows and no error.

Tips and limits

• Public content only. Comments on friends-only posts, closed groups and age- or country-restricted Pages are not visible without logging in, so they are not returned.
• Post links, not Pages. Give it the links of the posts you care about. To find a Page's posts first, use a posts scraper and feed its post URLs into Start URLs.
• Fewer comments than Facebook's count? Facebook's count includes comments it hides from visitors (deleted, filtered as spam, or from restricted accounts). "All comments" returns the most; "Most relevant" fewer.
• Videos and reels carry their comments on the post that published them; the scraper finds that post itself. Photos have comments of their own, separate from their post's; photo rows carry the post's author but no other post details.
• Monitoring mode picks up new comments on the post, not new replies under older comments.
• Hit your spending limit? The run stops cleanly at your maximum cost per run and keeps everything it collected. Raise the limit in the run options to get more.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Facebook comments?

This Actor collects only data that Facebook shows publicly, without logging in. Comments are written by people, so results contain personal data (names, profile pictures, what they wrote), which laws such as the GDPR protect. Scrape personal data only for a legitimate purpose, keep only what you need, and ask a lawyer if you are unsure. Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.; this Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta.

Do I need a Facebook account or cookies?

No. Nothing is logged in and you never share an account, so there is no account to get blocked.

Can I use it through the API or with Make, Zapier and n8n?

Yes. Every run can be started through the Apify API and returns the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel. Schedules, webhooks and integrations for Make, Zapier, n8n and Google Sheets are on the Integrations tab. For monitoring, schedule a run with "Only comments new since the last run" turned on.

Can AI agents use it?

Yes. Agents connected to Apify's MCP server can find and run this Actor as a tool, with the same per-comment pricing. The output is ready for sentiment analysis, topic clustering or summaries.

Why did I get fewer comments than I asked for?

Either the post has fewer visible comments than your limit, the date filter or monitoring mode left older ones out, the run reached your maximum cost per run, or it reached its timeout. The log says which, and nothing collected before that is lost.

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Support

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