Facebook Posts Scraper: Groups, Pages & Profiles

Get the posts from public Facebook groups, Pages and profiles, each with its reaction, comment and share counts and its photos and videos: newest first, back to a date you choose. No Facebook account, login or cookies needed.

What does this Actor do?

You give it links to public Facebook groups, Pages or profiles. For each link it reads the feed the way a logged-out visitor sees it, starting with the newest post. It saves one row per post until it reaches your date or your post limit.

Each post comes with:

• the post's text, and the text of the post it shares, if it shares one
• when it was posted (UTC)
• who posted it: name, Facebook id, profile link and picture
• its reaction, comment and share counts, and its reactions by type (like, love, haha, …) when the post has any
• links to its photos and videos, with their sizes and Facebook's description of each photo
• the group, Page or profile it came from
• a link to the post

When a post has them, it also comes with the comments Facebook shows with it, the hashtags, mentions and links in its text, the post it shares, and a sale post's item and price.

Why use it?

• Keep up without scrolling. Follow market listings, community news, brand mentions or a competitor's announcements in the groups and Pages you care about, without opening Facebook.
• Get a steady feed. Schedule it daily with 1 day and receive each day's new posts.
• Use the data anywhere. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your own tools through Apify's API and integrations.

How to use it

1. Paste one or more links into Groups, Pages or profiles.
2. In Only posts newer than, choose how far back to read: a date such as 2026-10-01, or a period such as 3 days.
3. Optionally, set Max posts per link.
4. Click Start. When the run ends, open the Output tab to view the posts or download them.

Run it with no input to see a sample: up to 50 posts from one public group, charged as usual.

Links that work

Link	Looks like
Public group	https://www.facebook.com/groups/1007033107457891
Page	https://www.facebook.com/nasa
Profile	https://www.facebook.com/<username> or https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=<number>

Mobile links (m.facebook.com) and links carrying tracking parameters (?mibextid=…, ?ref=…) work too. They are cleaned up, and a link pasted twice is read once.

Use the link of the group, Page or profile itself. Links to a single post and share links (facebook.com/share/…) are not supported yet. Paste the links into the list: uploading a file of links is not supported yet.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
Groups, Pages or profiles (startUrls)	The links to read. Required.	—
Only posts newer than (onlyPostsNewerThan)	The oldest post to keep. A date (YYYY-MM-DD, counted from midnight UTC), or a period back from the start of the run: N days, N weeks, N months or N years	1 day
Max posts per link (maxPostsPerLink)	Stop reading a link after this many posts, from 1 to 10,000	50
Only new posts (onlyNewItems)	Return only the posts an earlier run did not; see New items only below	off

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/1007033107457891" },
    { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/nasa" }
  ],
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "3 days",
  "maxPostsPerLink": 50
}

New items only

Turn on Only new posts (onlyNewItems) for a scheduled run, or a re-run of the same task. Each run then returns only the posts it has not returned before: it reads each link back to a day before the last run that read it, and skips the posts an earlier run saved. Skipped posts are neither saved nor charged; each new post is charged as usual. Each link read is still charged its link event ($0.002), new posts or not.

• Runs with other settings, or from another task, keep their own list, so two schedules on one link never skip each other's posts.
• If a link stops at Max posts per link, the posts past that point are not returned later. Set the maximum above what one link gets between runs.
• Set Only posts newer than to more than the time between runs plus a day (the daily task uses 1 week): a shorter window, such as the default 1 day on a daily schedule, ends each walk before it reaches back a day before the last run. The first run reads the whole window, up to the maximum per link.
• The list lives in your Apify account, in a key-value store named facebook-posts-scraper-monitor. Delete it to start afresh.

Output

One row per post. An example, with the text and links shortened and made-up counts:

{
  "post_id": "1656760789152624",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0UQkYmBMPZYZi3s8yUheTZjKVMfZjtCmoz1S8SMEYDU49FZz8ehJJDJViGam7K3yGl",
  "posted_at": "2026-10-14T15:16:24.000Z",
  "text": "Have you seen our new episode of Planetary Defenders yet? …",
  "shared_text": null,
  "author_name": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "author_id": "100044561550831",
  "source_name": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "source_type": "page_or_profile",
  "source_id": "100044561550831",
  "source_url": "https://www.facebook.com/nasa",
  "reaction_count": 2410,
  "reactions": { "like": 1980, "love": 352, "wow": 61, "care": 12, "haha": 5 },
  "comment_count": 87,
  "share_count": 143,
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "photo",
      "id": "1656760742485962",
      "url": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/…/1.jpg?…",
      "width": 2048,
      "height": 1365,
      "image_text": "May be an image of outer space"
    },
    {
      "type": "video",
      "id": "1656760755819294",
      "url": "https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/v/…/hd.mp4?…",
      "hd_url": "https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/v/…/hd.mp4?…",
      "sd_url": "https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/v/…/sd.mp4?…",
      "thumbnail_url": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/…/thumb.jpg?…",
      "width": 1280,
      "height": 720,
      "duration_ms": 61000
    }
  ],
  "photo_count": 4,
  "author_url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
  "author_picture_url": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/…/p.jpg?…",
  "page_ad_library": { "id": "100000000000099", "is_business_page_active": false },
  "top_comments": [
    {
      "comment_id": "1656790012345678",
      "text": "Can't wait to watch it!",
      "author_name": "Alex Example",
      "author_id": "100000000000001",
      "author_url": null,
      "created_at": "2026-10-14T16:02:11.000Z",
      "reply_count": 3,
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0UQk…?comment_id=1656790012345678"
    }
  ],
  "hashtags": ["#PlanetaryDefense"],
  "mentions": [],
  "links": ["https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense/"],
  "shared_post": null,
  "sale": null,
  "story_id": "UzpfSTEwMDA0NDU2MTU1MDgzMTo…",
  "feedback_id": "ZmVlZGJhY2s6MTY1Njc2MDc4OTE1MjYyNA=="
}

Field	What it holds
post_id	Facebook's id for the post
url	A link to the post
posted_at	When it was posted, in UTC (ISO 8601)
text	The post's text. Empty for a post with only photos or a video
shared_text	The text of the post this one shares, if it shares one
author_name, author_id	Who posted it
source_name	The name of the group, Page or profile
source_type	group or page_or_profile
source_id	Facebook's id for the group, Page or profile
source_url	The link the post was read from
reaction_count	How many reactions the post has, all types together
reactions	The reactions by type: like, love, care, haha, wow, sad, angry. Only the types the post has; empty when it has none
comment_count	How many comments it has
share_count	How many times it was shared
media	Its photos and videos. Each has type (photo or video), id, url, width and height. A photo adds image_text, Facebook's description of the image; a video adds hd_url, sd_url, thumbnail_url and duration_ms
photo_count	The photos and videos in the post (the album's full count when Facebook shows more than it sends, so media can list fewer)
author_url, author_picture_url	The author's profile link and picture, when Facebook shows them
page_ad_library	The Page or profile record Facebook links to the author: its id and Facebook's is_business_page_active flag, when Facebook shows one
top_comments	The comments Facebook shows with the post in the feed, usually one or two and never all of them: comment_id, text, author_name, author_id, author_url, created_at, reply_count, url
hashtags, mentions, links	The hashtags, the people and Pages mentioned (name, id, url) and the web links written in the text
shared_post	The post this one shares, if it shares one: post_id, story_id, url, posted_at, author_name, author_id, author_url, media and sale
sale	For a group sale post: the item's id, title, price as shown, price_amount (that price as a number, when Facebook's amount matches it), currency, and whether it is_sold, is_live, is_pending or is_on_marketplace
story_id, feedback_id	Facebook's other ids for the post

Not included: all of a post's comments and their replies (only the few Facebook shows with the post), video view counts, and the photo and video files themselves (you get their links).

How much does it cost?

One extra event, $0.002 per link read; nothing else is added.

You pay for what you get:

• $2 per 1,000 posts ($0.002 a post). Each post is charged once per run, even when Facebook shows it twice.
• $0.002 per link read. A link that could not be read is not charged.

So 50 posts from each of 3 links costs $0.306. If you set a maximum cost for a run, the Actor stops when it reaches it and keeps every post saved so far.

How long does a run take?

The Actor reads one page of a feed at a time, about 3 posts per page, and paces its requests. Expect roughly 40 posts a minute. In testing, 50 posts from each of two groups, plus a Page's posts, took under 3 minutes.

Good to know

• Only public content. The Actor sees what a logged-out visitor sees. Private groups and posts behind a login are not available. How far back you can go also depends on what Facebook shows a logged-out visitor.
• One bad link does not stop the run. The other links carry on, and the run's status lists the links that could not be read, for example Saved 42 posts from 2 links. Could not read: https://…. The run fails only when no link could be read.
• No new posts is not an error. Saved 0 posts from 3 links. means every link was read and nothing was newer than your date.
• Running it daily? A post close to the cut-off can appear in two runs: turn on Only new posts, or remove repeats by post_id.
• Counts are as of the run. Reactions, comments and shares are counted when the post is read; the same post read later can show more.
• Photo and video links expire. They are Facebook's own links and stop working after some days, so download the files you need soon after the run.

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Use it from an AI agent or the API

One call starts a run and returns its items (Apify waits up to 300 seconds; for a longer run, start it with POST /v2/acts/…/runs and read its dataset):

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/luzivanlt~facebook-posts-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>

With the sample input as its JSON body:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/1007033107457891"
    }
  ],
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "1 day",
  "maxPostsPerLink": 50
}

Its inputs, in the order of the input form:

Input	What it takes	Default
startUrls (Groups, Pages or profiles)	Links to public Facebook groups, Pages or profiles: a group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1007033107457891), a Page (https://www.facebook.com/nasa) or a profile (facebook.com/<username> or profile.php?id=<number>).	—
onlyPostsNewerThan (Only posts newer than)	A date (YYYY-MM-DD) or a period back from now, such as 1 day or 2 weeks.	"1 day"
maxPostsPerLink (Max posts per link)	Stop reading a link after this many posts.	50
onlyNewItems (Only new posts)	Turn this on for a scheduled run, or a re-run of the same task: each run then returns only the posts it has not returned before, reading each link back to a day before the last run that read it.	—

Apify's MCP server, https://mcp.apify.com, lists it as luzivanlt/facebook-posts-scraper. To give an AI agent this Actor as a tool, add the server to the agent's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=luzivanlt/facebook-posts-scraper"
    }
  }
}

The client signs in with OAuth, or add "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>" }.

Charged per post delivered; the sample input above costs at most $0.11.

FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account or cookies? No. The Actor reads public posts without logging in.

Why could a link not be read? The group may be private, or the link may point to a single post or be a share link. Facebook also refuses a request now and then; running again later usually works.

Can I get comments, reactions or images? Yes, for what Facebook shows with each post: its reaction, comment and share counts, its reactions by type when it has any, links to its photos and videos, and the one or two comments Facebook shows under it. All of a post's comments and their replies are not included yet.

Can I run it from my own code, on a schedule, or with other apps? Yes. Like any Apify Actor, you can start it through the Apify API, run it on a schedule, and connect it to other apps with Apify's integrations and webhooks.

Is it legal to scrape Facebook?

This Actor reads only public posts that anyone can see without logging in. The results include the names of the people who wrote the posts, which is personal data protected by laws such as the GDPR in the EU. Only collect personal data when you have a legitimate reason to, and check Facebook's terms and the laws that apply to you. If you are unsure, ask a lawyer.

Support

Found a problem or missing a feature? Open an issue on the Issues tab and include the run's link.

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