# Facebook Posts Scraper (`khadinakbar/facebook-posts-scraper`) Actor Scrape public Facebook page, profile, group, and post URLs into structured post records with text, media, links, and engagement counts. HTTP-first with optional provider fallback. MCP-ready. - **URL**: https://apify.com/khadinakbar/facebook-posts-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Khadin Akbar](https://apify.com/khadinakbar) (community) - **Categories:** Social media, Lead generation, MCP servers - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $3.50 / 1,000 post scrapeds This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Facebook Posts Scraper Scrape public Facebook posts from page, profile, group, and direct post URLs. The actor returns clean JSON records with post URL, author, text, timestamp, engagement counts, media URLs, outbound links, source URL, and scrape metadata. This actor is built for social listening, competitive research, brand monitoring, and AI-agent workflows that need structured public Facebook post data without handling browser sessions or cookies. ### What it extracts Each dataset item can include: - `postUrl` and `postId` - `authorName` and `authorUrl` - `text` - `timestamp` and `timestampText` - `reactionsCount`, `commentsCount`, and `sharesCount` - `media` - `externalLinks` - `sourceUrl` - `scrapeSource` - `scrapedAt` The scraper is HTTP-first and uses mobile/basic Facebook pages where available. That keeps runs fast and cheaper than a browser-heavy workflow. Facebook can still hide, delete, age-gate, or login-gate content; those sources are reported in the `OUTPUT` summary instead of hard-failing the run. ### Input ```json { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA" }, { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/10159744600446772" } ], "resultsLimit": 50, "maxPostsPerSource": 25, "scrapeDetails": true, "fallbackProvider": "auto", "onlyPostsNewerThan": "2026-01-01", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] } } ```` ### Output example ```json { "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA", "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/123456789", "postId": "123456789", "authorName": "NASA", "authorUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA", "text": "A new image from space...", "timestamp": "2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z", "timestampText": "June 1, 2026", "reactionsCount": 1200, "commentsCount": 34, "sharesCount": 5, "media": ["https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/image.jpg"], "externalLinks": ["https://www.nasa.gov/"], "scrapeSource": "post-detail", "scrapedAt": "2026-06-08T12:00:00.000Z" } ``` ### Notes - Public data only. Private groups, private profiles, deleted posts, login-only posts, and age-gated pages may not return results. - Residential proxies are enabled by default because Facebook often blocks datacenter IPs. - Provider fallback is optional. Set `SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY`, `SOCIAVAULT_API_KEY`, or `SOCIALVAULT_API_KEY` in the actor environment and keep `fallbackProvider` as `auto` to use public-data APIs after Facebook blocks or returns empty HTML. - Date filters are best-effort. If Facebook exposes unparseable relative text, the actor keeps the post rather than silently dropping data. - `includeRawHtml` is for debugging only and increases dataset size. ### Pricing Pay-per-event configuration: - `apify-actor-start`: `$0.00005` - `post-scraped`: `$0.0035` per dataset item `resultsLimit` is the primary user-facing cost cap. ### Local development ```bash npm install npm test apify run --input='{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA"}],"resultsLimit":5}' ``` # Actor input Schema ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): One or more public Facebook page, profile, group, or post URLs. The actor converts supported URLs to mobile/basic Facebook for fast public extraction. Private, deleted, age-gated, or login-only content may return no posts. ## `resultsLimit` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of post records to emit across all sources. Use this as your primary cost cap; each emitted post charges the post-scraped event. ## `maxPostsPerSource` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of posts to collect from each page, profile, or group URL before moving to the next source. Direct post URLs count as one source. ## `scrapeDetails` (type: `boolean`): When enabled, the actor opens each discovered post URL to enrich text, media, outbound links, and engagement counts. Disable for faster, cheaper timeline-preview extraction. ## `fallbackProvider` (type: `string`): Optional fallback after Facebook blocks or returns empty public HTML. auto uses SCRAPECREATORS\_API\_KEY first and SOCIAVAULT\_API\_KEY second when those environment variables are configured. none disables provider calls. ## `onlyPostsNewerThan` (type: `string`): Optional date filter. Accepts ISO dates such as 2026-01-01 or natural JavaScript date strings. Posts with unparseable Facebook timestamp text are kept rather than silently dropped. ## `onlyPostsOlderThan` (type: `string`): Optional upper date filter. Accepts ISO dates such as 2026-06-01 or natural JavaScript date strings. Posts with unparseable Facebook timestamp text are kept rather than silently dropped. ## `includeRawHtml` (type: `boolean`): Debug option. Adds a truncated rawHtml field to detail records. Leave disabled for normal runs because raw HTML increases dataset size. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxy settings for requests. Residential Apify Proxy is the default because Facebook often blocks datacenter IPs and local network ranges. ## Actor input object example ```json { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA" }, { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/10159744600446772" } ], "resultsLimit": 100, "maxPostsPerSource": 50, "scrapeDetails": true, "fallbackProvider": "auto", "onlyPostsNewerThan": "2026-01-01", "onlyPostsOlderThan": "2026-06-01", "includeRawHtml": false, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `dataset` (type: `string`): No description ## `summary` (type: `string`): No description ## `runSummary` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA" } ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("khadinakbar/facebook-posts-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA" }] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("khadinakbar/facebook-posts-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA" } ] }' | apify call khadinakbar/facebook-posts-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=khadinakbar/facebook-posts-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Facebook Posts Scraper", "description": "Scrape public Facebook page, profile, group, and post URLs into structured post records with text, media, links, and engagement counts. HTTP-first with optional provider fallback. MCP-ready.", "version": "1.2", "x-build-id": "fBpBDwhOZ2RSGfPKY" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/khadinakbar~facebook-posts-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-khadinakbar-facebook-posts-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/khadinakbar~facebook-posts-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-khadinakbar-facebook-posts-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/khadinakbar~facebook-posts-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-khadinakbar-facebook-posts-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "startUrls" ], "properties": { "startUrls": { "title": "Facebook URLs", "type": "array", "description": "One or more public Facebook page, profile, group, or post URLs. The actor converts supported URLs to mobile/basic Facebook for fast public extraction. Private, deleted, age-gated, or login-only content may return no posts.", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "resultsLimit": { "title": "Total posts limit", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 5000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of post records to emit across all sources. Use this as your primary cost cap; each emitted post charges the post-scraped event.", "default": 50 }, "maxPostsPerSource": { "title": "Max posts per source", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 1000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of posts to collect from each page, profile, or group URL before moving to the next source. Direct post URLs count as one source.", "default": 25 }, "scrapeDetails": { "title": "Open post details", "type": "boolean", "description": "When enabled, the actor opens each discovered post URL to enrich text, media, outbound links, and engagement counts. Disable for faster, cheaper timeline-preview extraction.", "default": true }, "fallbackProvider": { "title": "Provider fallback", "enum": [ "auto", "none", "scrapeCreators", "sociaVault" ], "type": "string", "description": "Optional fallback after Facebook blocks or returns empty public HTML. auto uses SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY first and SOCIAVAULT_API_KEY second when those environment variables are configured. none disables provider calls.", "default": "auto" }, "onlyPostsNewerThan": { "title": "Only posts newer than", "type": "string", "description": "Optional date filter. Accepts ISO dates such as 2026-01-01 or natural JavaScript date strings. Posts with unparseable Facebook timestamp text are kept rather than silently dropped." }, "onlyPostsOlderThan": { "title": "Only posts older than", "type": "string", "description": "Optional upper date filter. Accepts ISO dates such as 2026-06-01 or natural JavaScript date strings. Posts with unparseable Facebook timestamp text are kept rather than silently dropped." }, "includeRawHtml": { "title": "Include raw HTML", "type": "boolean", "description": "Debug option. Adds a truncated rawHtml field to detail records. Leave disabled for normal runs because raw HTML increases dataset size.", "default": false }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Proxy settings for requests. Residential Apify Proxy is the default because Facebook often blocks datacenter IPs and local network ranges.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```