Facebook Page Posts Scraper — Reactions by Kind, No Login 🚀

foXLabs Facebook series: Page Profile · Post Comments · Page Reviews · Page Videos · Page Events

🎉 Posts of public Facebook Pages, newest first, exactly as Facebook shows them to a visitor who is not signed in — the text, exact time, kind, photos and video, reactions in total and by kind (like, love, care, haha, wow, sad, angry), comment and share counts, video views — plus what this Actor adds: how fast a post gathers reactions and comments per hour, hashtags, and the post's top comments. No login, no cookies, no account of anyone. Only-new mode for recurring runs.

🔍 What is the Facebook Page Posts Scraper — and when should you use it?

Give this Actor one or more public Facebook Pages and it returns their posts as clean rows — one per post, newest first, with the engagement numbers broken down by reaction kind and normalized per hour so you can compare posts fairly.

Use it when you need: a Page's recent posts with full engagement; social-listening or competitor content tracking across many Pages; the fastest-growing posts (reactions/comments per hour); or a recurring feed of only-new posts.

Use something else when: you need every comment on a post → Facebook Post Comments Scraper; the Page's contact/profile record → Facebook Page Profile Scraper; reviews → Reviews; videos/reels → Videos.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Already on the Apify MCP server? Ask for this Actor by name: foxlabs/facebook-page-posts-scraper. An agent can discover it, run it and read the dataset over MCP.

Real-time Standby API. This Actor ships a Standby endpoint so an agent can fetch a Page's newest posts on demand — GET /posts?page=NASA&maxPosts=12 returns rows immediately, billed with the same post event. Parameters: page, maxPosts, postKinds, minReactions, minComments, postedAfter, topComments (1/0).

Otherwise paste this into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-enabled assistant:

I want public Facebook Page posts with engagement using the Apify Actor
`foxlabs/facebook-page-posts-scraper`.

Input: `pages` is a list of Pages (name, @handle, numeric id or URL). `maxPostsPerPage` caps
rows per Page. Each row has text, kind, createdAt, reactions, reactionsByType, commentCount,
shareCount, reactionsPerHour and the post's topComments.

Start with:
{ "pages": ["NASA"], "maxPostsPerPage": 25 }

Ask me which Pages to track, run the Actor, then summarise the posts as a table.

The machine-readable API, MCP config and OpenAPI definition live at apify.com/foxlabs/facebook-page-posts-scraper.md.

📋 Overview

Everything you need to turn a public Facebook Page's timeline into clean, structured data — full post details, engagement by reaction kind and velocity signals — in one Actor, with no login, cookies or account.

Why teams pick this Actor:

• ✅ Reactions by kind — not just a total, but like/love/care/haha/wow/sad/angry each with its count.
• ⚡ Velocity built in — reactions and comments per hour since the post went up.
• 🎯 Honest nulls — a value Facebook does not give is null, never 0 for "unknown".
• 🔁 Only-new mode — schedule recurring runs that bring only posts not seen before.
• 💰 Pay only for results — one post event per delivered row; filters, status rows and unreadable Pages are free.
• 🤖 Agent-ready — MCP + a real-time Standby API.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Whole timeline, newest first — by Page name, @handle, numeric id or URL.
• 📄 Full post — text, kind (text/photo/album/video/reel/link), photos at full size, video (plays, duration, playable URL), shared link, mentions, hashtags.
• ❤️ Engagement — total reactions, reactions by kind, comment and share counts, video views, and per-hour velocity.
• 💬 Top comments — the two or three Facebook shows under the post, on each row.
• 🔁 Only-new lists — remember delivered posts under a name and skip them next run.
• 📦 Clean export — deduplicated camelCase rows, ready for CSV/Excel/JSON.

🎬 Quick Start

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/foxlabs~facebook-page-posts-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"pages": ["NASA"], "maxPostsPerPage": 25}'

🚀 Getting Started (3 steps)

1. Choose your Pages — one per line: NASA, @NASA, a numeric id or a full URL.
2. Set the cap — maxPostsPerPage limits rows per Page (default 100), newest first.
3. Run and export — get a clean dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

📥 Input

Field	Default	What it does
pages	—	One Page per line: NASA, @NASA, a numeric id, or https://www.facebook.com/NASA. A Page written twice is read once.
maxPostsPerPage	100	Posts to deliver for each Page, from the newest down.
maxPosts	100000	Rows in the whole run; the run stops there.
postedAfter	—	A date (2026-10-01): the walk down a Page stops at older posts.
postKinds	all	Keep only these kinds; the rest are skipped, not charged.
minReactions, minComments	—	Keep only posts at or above these counts.
includeTopComments	true	The post's top comments on each row (no extra request).
onlyNewPosts, listName	false, default	Remember delivered posts under a name and skip them in later runs.
proxyConfiguration	residential Apify Proxy	Nothing to change for normal use (see "How it reads Facebook").

A run with one Page and the defaults delivers up to 100 posts.

📤 Output

One row per post. A value Facebook does not give is null — never 0 for "unknown".

Field	What it is
postId, url	the post's id and permalink
pageId, pageName, pageUrl, pageIsVerified	the Page, as the post names it
text	the post's text (null for a reel or video without a caption)
kind	text, photo, album, video, reel, link
createdAt, hoursSincePost	when it went up (UTC), and the hours since
reactions, reactionsByType	all reactions, and each kind with its count
commentCount, shareCount, videoViews	Facebook's own counts
reactionsPerHour, commentsPerHour	counts divided by the hours since the post
images	every photo at full size: id, url, width, height, accessibilityCaption
video	for a video/reel: id, url, title, playableUrl, hdUrl, durationSeconds, views, thumbnailUrl
link	the shared link: url (unwrapped), title, description, source, imageUrl
mentions, hashtags	tagged Pages/people; hashtags in the text
topComments	the two or three comments Facebook shows under the post
canComment, isSponsored	whether visitors can comment; whether the post is sponsored
position, input	place in the timeline (1 = newest) and the input line it came from
type, error	post for a data row; status + error for a free row explaining an empty line

{
  "type": "post",
  "postId": "1652244896270880",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0dPToN66…",
  "pageId": "100044561550831",
  "pageName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "pageIsVerified": true,
  "text": "Brewing up baby stars ⭐ NASA's James Webb Space Telescope…",
  "kind": "photo",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-09T20:54:33.000Z",
  "hoursSincePost": 24.7,
  "reactions": 5362,
  "reactionsByType": { "like": 3173, "love": 1994, "care": 107, "wow": 75, "haha": 12, "angry": 1 },
  "commentCount": 108,
  "shareCount": 565,
  "reactionsPerHour": 216.7,
  "commentsPerHour": 4.4,
  "topComments": [{ "commentId": "848869361623320", "author": "Beyond Earth", "text": "That eight-pronged diffraction pattern is Webb's signature…", "reactions": 3 }],
  "position": 1,
  "input": "NASA"
}

💼 Use cases

1. Competitor content tracking — watch what a peer posts and how it performs. Input: the competitor's Pages, scheduled daily with onlyNewPosts. Output: new posts + engagement. Use: benchmark cadence and what resonates.

2. Social listening & virality — catch the posts gaining traction fastest. Input: many Pages, minReactions set. Output: posts sorted by reactionsPerHour. Use: surface what's taking off now.

3. Content research — study a Page's best posts by format and reaction mix. Input: one Page, postKinds filter. Output: posts with reactionsByType. Use: learn which formats and emotions win.

🔗 Integration

JavaScript / Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('foxlabs/facebook-page-posts-scraper').call({
  pages: ['NASA'], maxPostsPerPage: 25,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0]);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('foxlabs/facebook-page-posts-scraper').call(
    run_input={'pages': ['NASA'], 'maxPostsPerPage': 25}
)
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Written for apify-client 3 for Python, where call() returns a run object; with version 1 or 2 it returns a dict — write run['defaultDatasetId'] there.

Automation (n8n / Zapier / Make): schedule or webhook → HTTP request to the Actor API with your pages → handle the JSON dataset → push to a sheet, CRM or dashboard.

📊 Pricing

Pay per event, one event per delivered row: post. The price is on the Pricing tab. Nothing else is charged: no start fee, no charge for a status row, none for a post the filters left out, none for a Page that could not be read. A run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Platform usage besides the rows: the Actor reads Facebook through residential proxy, about 55 KB a post on the wire (measured 2026-10-10), which the per-row price covers.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account, login or cookies? No. It reads only what Facebook shows a signed-out visitor on public Pages — no login, no cookies, no account, no CAPTCHA solving.

What can I search by? A Page name, @handle, numeric id or full URL — one per line.

Can I get every comment? No — each row carries the two or three top comments Facebook shows. For all comments use the Facebook Post Comments Scraper.

How do I avoid re-delivering the same posts? Turn on onlyNewPosts with a listName and schedule the run; each run brings only posts it hasn't delivered.

How current is the data? Every run reads Facebook live, newest first.

Can I export to CSV / Excel / JSON? Yes — directly from the Apify dataset.

🐛 Troubleshooting

• Fewer posts than expected — a visitor doesn't always see a whole timeline; some Pages show only part (the run stops where Facebook stops and says so), or maxPostsPerPage/filters are capping rows.
• A Page returns a status row — it's a personal profile, a group, or shown only to signed-in users; those are free, not charged.
• video.playableUrl is empty — Facebook only sometimes puts the file address in the timeline (~half of videos in our measurements); image URLs are signed and expire.
• Reaction names come back mapped to the seven standard kinds regardless of the Page's language.

How it reads Facebook: the Actor opens a Page as a signed-out visitor and asks Facebook's own timeline endpoint (three posts a call, newest first) using the tokens the Page's HTML carries. Facebook serves public Pages to residential addresses only, so Apify Proxy residential is used by default; rate-limited exit IPs are dropped and replaced. Every run starts with a one-call check and ends with a clear message (no empty rows) if Facebook's queries changed.

⚠️ Trademark

Independent, third-party tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Meta Platforms, Inc. "Facebook" and related marks belong to their owners and are used here for identification only.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape this data?

It reads only what Facebook shows a signed-out visitor on public Pages. Posts and top comments carry the names of people who wrote them publicly; personal data is protected by the GDPR and similar laws, so only collect and process it with a legitimate basis. The Actor does not log in, use anyone's account or cookies, or solve CAPTCHAs. See Apify's blog post on the legality of web scraping.

🤝 Support & contact

• 🌐 Website: data.foxlabs.com.tr
• 📧 Email: info@foxlabs.com.tr
• 🐛 Issues: open a ticket in the Actor's Issues tab — include the run id; the run's SOURCE_REPORT record holds what was asked, what Facebook answered and why the run stopped.
• 🧰 More clean data actors: Fox Labs on Apify

Changelog

0.1.1 — 2026-10-11 — the shared core of the family

• The video of a video or reel post carries its duration from the player's data and its live status, and the post's text as its description when the video itself has none — the shared core was updated with the family's other Actors (Comments, Page Profile, Videos, Events, Reviews); the other fields of a post row are unchanged.

0.1.0 — 2026-10-11 — first release

• Posts of public Facebook Pages as a signed-out visitor sees them: the Page's own HTML and the site's timeline query, three posts a call, newest first.
• Every row: text with mentions and links, exact time, kind, photos (full size), video (plays, duration, address), reactions in total and by kind, comment and share counts, video views, per-hour velocity, hashtags, top comments, comment/sponsored flags; the Page's id, name, URL and verification.
• Lines that bring nothing get a free status row; filters leave posts out without charging. Only-new lists for recurring runs; a restarted run continues without duplicates. Standby mode prepared; published in batch mode.