Facebook Any Group Posts Scraper

About

An apify actor designed for extracting comprehensive data from ANY Facebook group. Now you can safely and effortlessly to collect insghtful data from Facebook groups for any goal like market research, lead generation, and competitor analysis.

Short Tutorial on YouTube:

Features

• Post Data: Get details like post URLs, text, timestamp, author etc.. need more data? just reach out and ask!
• Private Group Support: Unlike many other scrapers, with this scraper you can access and scrape data from private groups, given the cookies of a user with user who join to this groups (instructions for cookie below ).
• Keyword Search: You can input specific keywords to filter and return only posts that match their criteria, making targeted data extraction simpler and more efficient.
• Data Export Formats: You can get the data in various formats such as JSON, CSV, or excel. This allows for seamless integration with other tools and platforms for further analysis and utilization.
• Resillience and Perfomance: This actor uses advanced techniques and technology to fetch the data. Promising data integrity and reliability.

Sample data

• Post URL
• Post Text
• Post Timestamp
• Post Author
• Post ID
• Need more? just reach out and ask

JSON example:

1[
2  {
3    "groupUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/4783256437534",
4    "postTimestamp": 1703338331,
5    "postBody": "I'd like to recommend the best FB scraper on apify!",
6    "postId": "1409297383355807",
7    "postAuthor": "John dow",
8    "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/4783256437534/posts/1409297383355807"
9  },
10  {
11    "groupUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/4783256437534",
12    "postTimestamp": 1703272857,
13    "postBody": "Anyone familiar with a working Facebook scraper for private groups?",
14    "postId": "1408728760079336",
15    "postAuthor": "Jane Dow",
16    "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/4783256437534/posts/1408728760079336"
17  }
18]

Getting Started

Prerequisites

To start scraping, you'll need to provide cookies from a Facebook account that has access to these groups. Here's how to get your Facebook cookies:

1. Log in to Facebook on your web browser.
2. While you are on the facebook tab, Open the browser's developer tools (usually F12 or right-click -> "Inspect").
3. Go to the 'Application' tab.
4. On the left sidebar menu, under Storage, expand Cookies
5. Under Cookies, you'll see the facebook URL, click it.
6. Now, from the table on the right, copy the value of "xs" and "c_user"
7. Copy and paste these cookies into the scraper's input form.