📰 Facebook Posts Scraper — Extract Posts from Public Facebook Pages

This Facebook posts scraper turns any public page or profile on Facebook into structured data. Give it page URLs or usernames and it returns the Facebook page posts with text, publish time, reactions broken down by type, comment and share counts, photos and videos, and the page's follower count, category and website on every item. Teams use it to track competitors, measure what a brand's audience reacts to, and build content and research datasets without reading feeds by hand.

Paste as many pages as you like, choose how many posts you want from each and how far back to go, and get one dataset item per post, ready to export to JSON, CSV or Excel. No Facebook account, cookies or API key are needed.

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🚀 Key Features

• 🔗 Pages, profiles, usernames — a facebook.com/nike link, a bare nike, or a profile.php?id=… link, with no limit on how many per run
• 🧾 Full post record — text, publish time, reactions with a per-type breakdown, comment and share counts, author
• 📸 Photos and videos — thumbnail, dimensions, description and download URLs for each attachment
• 🏷️ Page facts on every post — followers, category, website and page id, so exports need no second lookup
• 📅 Stop at a date — untilDate keeps only posts newer than a day you choose, for daily incremental runs
• 🔢 Per-page limit — maxItems caps posts for each page separately, so one busy page cannot crowd out the rest
• 🛡️ No login required — reads only what Facebook shows to logged-out visitors; Apify residential proxies by default
• 📤 Multiple export formats — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML via the Apify dataset
• 🔁 Schedulable runs — run daily with untilDate to keep a page's history growing

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👥 Who Is This Actor For?

• 📣 Social media and brand managers — tracking competitor pages and what their audience reacts to
• 📈 Marketing analysts — measuring post frequency, formats and engagement across a set of pages
• 📰 Journalists and researchers — collecting what public figures, outlets and institutions publish
• 🧰 Developers — feeding page posts into dashboards, alerts or a CRM
• 🤖 AI builders — grounding an agent in a brand's recent Facebook posts and their engagement

💡 Common Use Cases

• Scrape Facebook pages of five competitors every morning and chart reactions per post
• Track a public figure's posts and export them with comment and share counts to a spreadsheet
• Collect a news outlet's Facebook posts for a media study, with the date range you choose
• Watch your own brand page and get alerted when a post's engagement jumps
• Build a dataset of video and photo posts with download URLs for a content audit

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🔗 Supported URL Types

URL Type	Example
Page by username	https://www.facebook.com/nike
Bare username	nike or @nike
Page tab link	https://www.facebook.com/nike/posts
Profile by numeric id	https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100044541544829
People link	https://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Zuckerberg/4/
web.facebook.com or m.facebook.com links	https://web.facebook.com/humansofnewyork

Group, Marketplace, event and single-post links are not page URLs; use the Facebook Group Scraper for groups.

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
startUrls	Array	Facebook pages or public profiles to scrape. Paste a page URL such as https://www.facebook.com/nike, a username such as nike, or a profile.php?id=… link. One entry per page, and as many pages as you like.	Required
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of posts to scrape from each page (start URL).	10
untilDate	String	Stop scraping a page when its posts get older than this date (format: YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty to scrape until maxItems is reached.	none
proxyConfiguration	Object	Proxy configuration. Defaults to Apify residential proxies, which Facebook requires for posts; datacenter IP addresses are refused.	{ "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }

Example Input

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/nike", "humansofnewyork"],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

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📤 Output

One dataset item per post:

Field	Type	Description
post_id	String	Facebook's identifier for the post
creation_time	String	Publish time as an ISO 8601 timestamp (UTC)
message	String	The post text
post_url	String	Link to the post, or to the reel or video it embeds
reactions	Object	total and a breakdown by reaction type (like, love, haha, …)
comments_count	Number	Number of comments on the post
shares_count	Number	Number of shares
author	Object	id, name, url and profile_picture_url of the page or profile that posted
attachments	Array	Photos and videos on the post: type, id, url, thumbnail, width, height, description and download_urls
facebook_page_url	String	The page URL or username you passed in
facebook_page_name	String	The page's display name
facebook_page_id	String	Facebook's id for the page
facebook_page_category	String	The page's category, such as "Sportswear Store"
facebook_page_followers	Number	The page's follower count at the time of the run
facebook_page_website	String	The website in the page's intro, when it has one

Example Output

A real item from a run on the example input (2026-09-19), with image URL query strings removed:

{
  "post_id": "1423154279375557",
  "creation_time": "2025-12-17T18:36:56.000Z",
  "message": "A few more days to order Dear New York before Christmas. At nearly 500-full color pages, Dear New York is the most beautiful and expansive collection of stories to ever come out of Humans of New York-- including hundreds that have never before been published. Currently discounted 55% on Amazon.\n\nOrder Here: https://bit.ly/dearnewyorkbook\n\nThank you to the NY Times for so kindly including Dear New York on it's list of Gift-Worthy Holiday Art Books.",
  "post_url": "https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/posts/pfbid02Xgm8abwex4u4n8163pmFMzQE6FWPhR2XjTqrFajoAvtwLC1FBCH5sxv5YfusZMndl",
  "reactions": {
    "total": 576,
    "breakdown": {
      "like": 462,
      "love": 108,
      "care": 5,
      "haha": 1
    }
  },
  "comments_count": 168,
  "shares_count": 43,
  "author": {
    "id": "100050429952420",
    "name": "Humans of New York",
    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork",
    "profile_picture_url": "https://scontent.fhan17-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/334611134_1536915246801761_214912837020673325_n.jpg"
  },
  "attachments": [
    {
      "type": "photo",
      "id": "1423151982709120",
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1423151982709120&set=a.755664696124522",
      "thumbnail": "https://scontent.fhan17-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/599140361_1423151986042453_6897813574530477673_n.jpg",
      "width": 1080,
      "height": 1345,
      "description": "No photo description available.",
      "download_urls": [
        {
          "url": "https://scontent.fhan17-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/599140361_1423151986042453_6897813574530477673_n.jpg",
          "type": "photo_image",
          "quality": "high",
          "width": 1080,
          "height": 1345
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "facebook_page_url": "humansofnewyork",
  "facebook_page_name": "Humans of New York",
  "facebook_page_id": "102099916530784",
  "facebook_page_category": "Arts & Humanities Website",
  "facebook_page_followers": 17079028,
  "facebook_page_website": "http://www.humansofnewyork.com/"
}

You can export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML from the Apify Console or via the Apify API.

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💰 Pricing

This Actor is pay per event. Each post saved counts as one result at $0.005 per result, so 1,000 posts cost $5 plus Apify platform usage, including residential proxy traffic when you keep the default proxy. A free Apify account is enough to try it.

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❓ FAQ

What is the Facebook Posts Scraper?

It is an Apify Actor that reads public Facebook pages and profiles and returns their posts as structured data. Paste page links or usernames, set a limit per page, and run it from the Console, the API, or on a schedule.

Do I need an account, cookies or an API key?

No. The Actor reads only what Facebook shows to visitors who are not logged in.

Which pages work?

Public pages and public profiles: brands, media outlets, public figures, businesses, organisations. A profile that hides its posts from logged-out visitors returns none, and the run says so.

Do I need a proxy?

Yes, keep the residential default. Facebook refuses to serve posts to datacenter IP addresses, so runs on datacenter proxies fail before the first post.

How many posts can I get per page?

maxItems caps posts per page, and the Actor keeps collecting until it reaches your limit, your untilDate, or the end of the timeline. In a run on 2026-09-19 it collected 60 posts from each of three pages, 180 in total, in under two minutes. Long timelines are carried through to the end for you — there is nothing to resume or stitch together.

Does it include reels and videos?

Yes. A post that carries a reel or video comes back with a video attachment, the video's thumbnail and its link, and post_url points at the reel or video page.

Why are some counts rounded?

Facebook shows exact reaction, comment and share counts on posts, and those are what the Actor returns. The follower count is exact when Facebook publishes it in the page's metadata and rounded to the nearest thousand or million otherwise.

Can I schedule it or integrate it with my app?

Yes. Every Apify Actor exposes a REST API, webhooks, and integrations with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets and Slack, and can be called from an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to scrape Facebook pages?

This Actor accesses only publicly available pages. You are responsible for making sure your use complies with Facebook's terms of service and the laws in your jurisdiction, including any rules that apply to personal data.

What if Facebook changes and the Actor breaks?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with a page URL that fails, so the problem can be reproduced.

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🧩 Part of the Facebook Scraper Suite

Goldmine's Actors for public Facebook data. Also try:

• Facebook Group Scraper — posts, authors, reactions and photos from public Facebook groups
• Facebook Page Details Scraper — followers, category, contact details and about text for a page, one row per page
• Facebook Comments Scraper — comments and replies on public posts, videos, reels and photos
• Facebook Ads Library Scraper — ad copy, creatives, CTAs and run dates from the public Facebook Ad Library

See every Goldmine Actor at apify.com/logical_scrapers.

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📷 Image Credit

Image credit: facebook.com

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📬 Contact & Support

• Issues & feature requests: use the Issues tab on this Actor's page. Include a page URL that fails so it can be reproduced.
• Email: coredev.dan@gmail.com
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This Actor is an independent tool for collecting publicly available data. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected with Meta Platforms, Inc.