Facebook Comments Scraper

Scrape comments and replies from public Facebook posts, reels and videos without login. Each post gets a coverage report describing whether comment pages and reply threads were read to the end. Each returned comment costs $0.0015 ($1.50 per 1,000 comments), including replies; a $0.00005 start fee applies per run.

What it returns

Each dataset item is one comment or reply. Replies are separate rows; threadingDepth is 0 for top-level comments and higher for replies, while replyToCommentId identifies the direct parent. Nested arrays such as comments and replies are empty. A comment made only of a sticker, GIF or photo is still returned: text may be null and attachments contains available media details.

Name	Type	Meaning
facebookUrl	string or null	Facebook URL of the post.
inputUrl	string or null	URL supplied in startUrls.
postId	string or null	Numeric post ID.
postUrl	string or null	Resolved post URL.
postTitle	string or null	Post title, when available.
postDescription	string or null	Post text, when available.
commentUrl	string or null	Direct comment URL.
commentId	string or null	Numeric comment ID.
facebookCommentId, facebookId	string or null	Numeric comment ID aliases.
id	string or null	Base64 Facebook comment ID.
feedbackId	string or null	Facebook feedback ID.
name, authorName, profileName	string or null	Commenter's display name.
author	object or null	Author ID, name and profile URL.
profileId	string or null	Commenter's Facebook ID.
profileUrl	string or null	Commenter's profile URL.
profilePicture	string or null	Profile picture URL, when available.
text, message	string or null	Comment text; may be null for media-only comments.
attachments	array or null	Available comment media attachments.
date, createdAt, publishedAt	string or null	Comment time in ISO 8601 format.
timestamp, time	number or null	Comment time as Unix seconds.
likesCount	string or null	Reaction count as a string.
likes, likeCount	number or null	Reaction count as a number.
commentsCount	number or null	Reported replies to this comment.
threadingDepth	number or null	Nesting depth; top-level comments are 0.
replyToCommentId, parentCommentId, parentFacebookCommentId, parentId	string or null	Direct parent comment ID for replies.
rootCommentId	string or null	Root comment ID when available.
comments, replies	array or null	Empty; replies are separate dataset rows.
parentComment, parentReply	object or null	Parent objects; currently null.

Example rows (shortened text and placeholder author details):

[
  {"facebookUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/POST_ID","inputUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/POST_ID","postId":"POST_ID","postUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/POST_ID","commentUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/POST_ID?comment_id=COMMENT_ID","commentId":"COMMENT_ID","facebookCommentId":"COMMENT_ID","facebookId":"COMMENT_ID","id":"BASE64_COMMENT_ID","feedbackId":"BASE64_FEEDBACK_ID","name":"Example Author","authorName":"Example Author","profileName":"Example Author","author":{"id":"AUTHOR_ID","name":"Example Author","url":"https://www.facebook.com/AUTHOR_ID"},"profileId":"AUTHOR_ID","profileUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/AUTHOR_ID","profilePicture":null,"date":"2026-10-04T09:58:43.000Z","createdAt":"2026-10-04T09:58:43.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-04T09:58:43.000Z","timestamp":1791112723,"time":1791112723,"text":"Example comment text…","message":"Example comment text…","attachments":[],"likesCount":"24","likes":24,"likeCount":24,"commentsCount":0,"threadingDepth":0,"replyToCommentId":null,"parentCommentId":null,"parentFacebookCommentId":null,"parentId":null,"rootCommentId":null,"comments":[],"replies":[],"parentComment":null,"parentReply":null},
  {"facebookUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/POST_ID","inputUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/POST_ID","postId":"POST_ID","postUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/POST_ID","commentUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/POST_ID?comment_id=PARENT_COMMENT_ID&reply_comment_id=REPLY_ID","commentId":"REPLY_ID","facebookCommentId":"REPLY_ID","facebookId":"REPLY_ID","id":"BASE64_REPLY_ID","feedbackId":"BASE64_REPLY_FEEDBACK_ID","name":"Another Author","authorName":"Another Author","profileName":"Another Author","author":{"id":"AUTHOR_ID_2","name":"Another Author","url":"https://www.facebook.com/AUTHOR_ID_2"},"profileId":"AUTHOR_ID_2","profileUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/AUTHOR_ID_2","profilePicture":null,"date":"2026-10-04T10:42:05.000Z","createdAt":"2026-10-04T10:42:05.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-04T10:42:05.000Z","timestamp":1791115325,"time":1791115325,"text":"Example reply text…","message":"Example reply text…","attachments":[],"likesCount":"5","likes":5,"likeCount":5,"commentsCount":0,"threadingDepth":1,"replyToCommentId":"PARENT_COMMENT_ID","parentCommentId":"PARENT_COMMENT_ID","parentFacebookCommentId":"PARENT_COMMENT_ID","parentId":"PARENT_COMMENT_ID","rootCommentId":null,"comments":[],"replies":[],"parentComment":null,"parentReply":null}
]

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
startUrls	Required	Array of Facebook post URLs; each object has a url.
resultsLimit	No limit	Maximum rows per post, replies included. Omit it to collect all visible comments.
includeNestedComments	false	Fetch replies and nested replies as separate rows.
viewOption	RANKED_UNFILTERED	Ordering: RANKED_UNFILTERED (All comments), RECENT_ACTIVITY (Newest), or RANKED_THREADED (Most relevant). Facebook may offer different orderings on different posts; the Actor falls back to an available ordering if needed.
onlyCommentsNewerThan	No lower bound	Inclusive date or datetime, or relative value such as 7 days.

One post, all visible comments and replies:

{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/123456789"}],"includeNestedComments":true}

Newest 50 comments from each of several posts:

{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/123456789"},{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/987654321"}],"resultsLimit":50,"viewOption":"RECENT_ACTIVITY"}

resultsLimit applies separately to each URL and counts replies when they are enabled.

Supported URLs

URLs may use www.facebook.com, m.facebook.com or web.facebook.com.

URL form	Example path
Post with numeric ID or pfbid	/Page/posts/123456789, /Page/posts/pfbidCODE
Permalink	/permalink.php?story_fbid=123&id=456
Group post (public groups)	/groups/GROUP/posts/123, /groups/GROUP/permalink/123
Photo	/photo/?fbid=123
Reel	/reel/123
Watch	/watch/?v=123
Video	/Page/videos/123
Share	/share/r/CODE, /share/v/CODE, /share/p/CODE

Coverage report

The default key-value store's OUTPUT record contains schemaVersion, actorBuild and a targets array with one report per input URL. Each COVERAGE log line contains that URL's report. Reports include postId, status, stopReason, requested and used ordering, Facebook's reported totals, emitted row counts, truncated thread count, failed requests, retries, logged-out visibility and errors.

Status	Meaning
complete	Every comment page and enabled reply thread was read to the end.
partial	Collection stopped at the result limit, charge limit, paging shortfall or after an error with some rows emitted.
unavailable	The post was not found or is age-gated.
failed	The Actor could not collect rows or establish coverage.

reportedTotal is Facebook's own total count, and topLevelReported is its top-level count. The reported total can be a few higher than the rows logged-out visitors can see because Facebook hides some comments from logged-out visitors. end_of_comments means paging ended normally. results_limit and charge_cap identify those limits; not_found and age_gated identify unavailable posts. paging_cut_short means Facebook ended paging while reporting more than 30 top-level comments and fewer than half that count were traversed. This is reported as partial coverage.

Pricing

Runs by users on Apify's free plan are limited to 3 URLs and 20 results per run.

• comment: $0.0015 per returned row ($1.50 per 1,000), with replies charged the same as top-level comments.
• Start fee: $0.00005 per run.
• Unavailable posts: free.

For 100 returned rows across available posts, event charges are $0.15; with one run's start fee, the total is $0.15005. When the configured charge limit is reached, the Actor stops emitting rows and stops crawling; the affected report has status: "partial" and stopReason: "charge_cap".

Limits

Only public posts visible without login can be collected, including posts in public groups. Some comments are hidden from logged-out visitors and cannot be returned. A URL that is not a single post (for example a Page or group home page) is reported as failed with stopReason: "unsupported_url"; the other URLs in the run are still processed.

Use via API

Send JSON to the synchronous dataset-items endpoint:

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/LordFloofington~facebook-comments-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/123456789"}],"includeNestedComments":true}'

Compliance

Users are responsible for complying with Facebook's terms and applicable law when using this Actor.