Facebook Events Scraper — Venue GPS, Start/End Times & Hosts

Get the whole event, not half of it. Paste a Facebook event URL or a page/organizer URL and get back the full record: name, description, start and end time, timezone, the venue with GPS coordinates, every host with their profile links, duration, categories and cover image.

No login. No cookies. No tokens. Nothing to configure — press Start.

You provide	You get back
An event URL — facebook.com/events/1023978871819924	That event, fully detailed
A page or organizer — facebook.com/LiveNationAustralia	Their events, merged from all three event tabs
A group — facebook.com/groups/123456789	The group's upcoming and past events
A city explore page — facebook.com/events/explore/fr-paris/110774245616525	Events happening in that city
A search URL copied from your browser	The events in those results

Why use it

• Venue and GPS, not null. Most Facebook event scrapers return an empty location field. This one returns the venue name plus latitude and longitude, so events land straight on a map.
• End times, not just start times. Both timestamps, in unix and ISO, plus the timezone.
• Hosts as data. Each host as a structured record with id, name and profile URL — not one flattened string.
• Zero setup. No Facebook account, no session cookie, no API key.

How it works

1. The actor mints fresh Facebook page tokens at the start of every run, so nothing is hardcoded or expiring.
2. Each start URL is classified: direct event, page/organizer, group, city explore, or search URL.
3. Page URLs are read three ways — /events, /upcoming_hosted_events and /past_hosted_events — and the results de-duplicated, because Facebook serves a different slice on each. Groups and city pages resolve to their single tab.
4. Each event needs exactly one request: Facebook embeds the whole record — description, hosts, categories, venue, coordinates and response counts — in the event page itself.

⬇️ Input

Facebook Events Scraper takes URLs — paste them into startUrls. Five kinds work.

🔗 Event URL

A specific event. Everything available is extracted for each one.

• https://www.facebook.com/events/1023978871819924

📄 Pages and organizers

Give the page and the scraper reads all three of its event tabs and merges them, so you get more than any single tab returns:

• https://www.facebook.com/LiveNationAustralia

It fetches /events, /upcoming_hosted_events and /past_hosted_events and de-duplicates. On a busy page that is the difference between 8 and 16 events; on a quiet page all three return the same set and you simply get it once. You can also pass any one of those URLs directly if you only want that tab.

👥 Groups

Both upcoming and past events of a group:

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/GROUP_NAME/events

🌍 City explore

Every event Facebook is surfacing for a city:

• https://www.facebook.com/events/explore/fr-paris/110774245616525

Get the URL by opening Facebook Events and picking a city — the address bar gives you the slug and location id.

🎯 Search URL with Facebook's own filters

Facebook's event search only returns results for URLs carrying its internal sde descriptor, which its front-end generates when you search. So: search on Facebook, apply whatever filters you want (online only, paid, date range, category), then copy the URL from the address bar and paste it in.

• https://www.facebook.com/events/search?q=Comedy&sde=AbrQ9KopLfqYT7heXVVCxznkZYxRr9hU1JA4cdLbJhjgs56yyeHW3e833A9

⚠️ A bare keyword URL cannot work — facebook.com/events/search/?q=Party returns "We didn't find any results" even for a logged-in person typing into Facebook's own search box. No scraper, login or token changes that. This Actor detects that URL shape and says so in the log rather than finishing silently with zero rows.

Mixing inputs

Pass as many URLs of any kind as you like in one run. maxEvents caps the whole run, not each URL, so a run is never more expensive than you set it.

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/events/1023978871819924",
    "https://www.facebook.com/LiveNationAustralia",
    "https://www.facebook.com/events/explore/fr-paris/110774245616525"
  ],
  "maxEvents": 200
}

Input fields

Field	Type	Required	Notes
startUrls	array	yes	Any mix of the five kinds above.
maxEvents	integer	no	Caps the whole run. Default 100.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	Residential by default and recommended.

Output

One row per event. Real result, abridged:

{
  "id": "1023978871819924",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/events/1023978871819924/",
  "name": "Red Hot Chili Peppers with Post Malone | Sydney",
  "description": "Red Hot Chili Peppers are heading to Australia…",
  "dateTimeSentence": "Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM AEDT",
  "startTimestamp": 1675328400,
  "endTimestamp": 1675342800,
  "startTimeIso": "2023-02-02T09:00:00.000Z",
  "endTimeIso": "2023-02-02T13:00:00.000Z",
  "timezone": "UTC+11",
  "duration": "4 hr",
  "venueName": "Accor Stadium",
  "latitude": -33.84726902893,
  "longitude": 151.06334209442,
  "usersResponded": 17528,
  "isPast": true,
  "isOnline": false,
  "isCanceled": false,
  "eventKind": "PUBLIC_TYPE",
  "hostedBy": "Event by Live Nation Australia, Post Malone and Red Hot Chili Peppers",
  "hosts": [
    { "id": "100064346752920", "name": "Live Nation Australia", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/LiveNationAustralia" },
    { "id": "100044283856936", "name": "Post Malone", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/postmalone" }
  ],
  "categories": [{ "label": "Music", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/events/search/?…" }],
  "coverImageUrl": "https://scontent.fsrg6-1.fna.fbcdn.net/…jpg",
  "onlineUrl": null,
  "ticketUrl": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/events/1023978871819924"
}

Key fields

Field	Description
startTimestamp / endTimestamp	Unix seconds. startTimeIso / endTimeIso are the same in ISO 8601.
venueName, latitude, longitude	The venue and its coordinates. Online events report Online event with no coordinates.
hosts[]	Every host with id, name and profile url.
usersResponded	People who responded to the event.
categories[]	Facebook's own discovery categories, e.g. Music, Theater.
onlineUrl	For online events, the external stream or meeting link when Facebook exposes one.

Pricing

Pay-per-result. You pay for events returned, nothing else.

Notes & limitations

• Keyword event search does not work on Facebook itself. A URL like facebook.com/events/search/?q=Party returns "We didn't find any results" — and it does so for a logged-in user typing into Facebook's own "Search events" box, verified in a real browser. No login, cookie, token or proxy changes this; it is Facebook's behaviour, not a scraper limitation. Any actor advertising Facebook event keyword search will return you an empty run. This actor detects that URL shape and tells you so in the log instead of finishing silently with zero rows. Use a page/organizer URL or a direct event URL instead.
• Facebook embeds only ~8 events per tab. This Actor works around that by reading all three page tabs and merging, which on a busy page yields roughly double (8 → 16 on a live test). Beyond that, Facebook holds the rest behind a scroll cursor this Actor does not follow, so a very large calendar can still be truncated. Direct event URLs are unaffected — pass a specific event's URL to guarantee it.
• usersInterested is deliberately not emitted. The interested count on an event page belongs to the related-events rail rather than the event you asked for, so reporting it would attribute another event's number to yours.
• ticketUrl, onlineUrl and siblingEvents (other dates of a recurring event) are populated only when Facebook exposes them, which is a minority of events.
• No privacyInfo field: Facebook ships it as an empty placeholder on the page, and it only restated eventKind plus hostedBy, which are both emitted as real fields.
• Past events remain fully scrapable; isPast tells you which.

FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account? No. Nothing to log into, no cookie to paste.

Can I scrape a venue's or promoter's whole calendar? Yes — give the page URL and the actor reads its events tab.

Why did my keyword return nothing? Because a bare keyword can't work; see Notes above. Paste the browser search URL instead.

🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

• Purpose: turn Facebook event or page URLs into structured event records with venue coordinates and precise timing.
• Minimal input: { "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/events/1023978871819924"] } — no auth.
• Output fields: id, url, name, description, dateTimeSentence, startTimestamp, endTimestamp, startTimeIso, endTimeIso, timezone, duration, isPast, isOnline, isCanceled, eventKind, venueName, city, latitude, longitude, onlineUrl, coverImageUrl, usersResponded, hosts[], hostedBy, categories[], siblingEvents[], ticketUrl, sourceUrl.
• Billing: pay-per-result; maxEvents bounds cost. One request per event.
• Do not pass bare keywords; only URLs are accepted.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor collects only publicly visible Facebook event information, without logging in or bypassing any access control. Use it in compliance with Facebook's Terms of Service and applicable law, including data-protection rules. You are responsible for how you use the data. This tool is not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta Platforms, Inc.

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