Facebook Posts Scraper — Pages & Post URLs, No Login

Scrape Facebook posts two ways: walk any public Page's feed, or paste the URLs of individual posts, reels and videos and get exactly those. Each row carries the post text, publish date, permalink, photos, reaction breakdown, comment and share counts, hashtags/links, collaborators, reel view counts, and the Page's Ads Library stub. Turn on Include video transcript to pull Facebook's own captions when a video has them. No login, no cookies, no browser.

Ask for 23 posts and you get 23 posts, charged for 23 posts. Facebook serves its feed ten at a time; the extras in the last batch are discarded rather than delivered and billed.

Why Use This Scraper?

• Your limit is a limit — maxPosts and maxItems are checked before each request, so the run never fetches, delivers, or charges for a post beyond what you asked for
• Residential proxy included, not billed to you — Facebook rate-limits and blocks datacenter IPs; the proxy that gets past that runs on our own pool, so your invoice carries no proxy line
• No login, no cookies — nothing to supply, nothing to get banned. Public Pages only, by design
• Reads Facebook's own query id per run — the id for the first page of a feed comes out of the Page's own HTML every run rather than being pinned in source, so the most common cause of a sudden breakage does not apply to it. The pagination query's id is looked up too, with a known-good value as the fallback when that lookup times out
• Date cutoff that saves money — onlyPostsNewerThan stops the walk at the first older post instead of paginating through years you will throw away
• Loud about empty runs — a run that scrapes nothing is reported as FAILED, never a green run wrapping an empty dataset
• Rate limits handled honestly — Facebook's "Rate limit exceeded" answer is an HTTP 200 with no posts in it. This actor detects it, rotates its exit IP, re-issues its tokens and retries; it never files a rate-limited response as "this page has no more posts"
• Flexible input — full URLs, bare handles (nasa), or profile.php?id=…; sub-paths like /photos are trimmed for you
• Parity fields — ocrText on photos, textReferences / link, collaborators, viewsCount on reels, pageAdLibrary, and an optional video-transcript toggle

Coming from another Facebook posts scraper?

These are the complaints on competing Page-post scrapers' public issue boards, and what this actor does about each.

Their issue board says	Here
"max_posts limit being ignored right now"	Caps are enforced before the fetch, not after
"charging for more results than specified"	Only the posts inside your cap are pushed and charged
"Scrapes 3 posts per query, when max parameter is set to 1"	Exact count, verified live: maxPosts: 23 returns exactly 23, charged 23
"Actor quits after 3-6 posts scraped"	Rate limits are detected and retried on a fresh IP with fresh tokens, instead of ending the walk
"Images from Album does not come with the output"	Every post carries attachments with the full-size image URL, its thumbnail, and photoCount / additionalPhotoCount
"Did you remove the array support for pages?"	startUrls takes as many Pages as you want in one run, and always has
"Error fetching data" with no detail	Every failure names its cause, per page, in the log and the run summary

Two ways to use it

Walk a Page — hand it a Page and it pages the feed under your caps.

Walk the photos tab — set scrapeMode to photos (or both) and you get one row per photo: id, full-size URL, thumbnail, Facebook permalink, and Facebook's accessibility caption as ocrText. Date cutoffs go to Facebook as query bounds, so a windowed run does not walk the whole tab. Photo permalinks (/photo/?fbid=…, photo.php?fbid=…) are fetched one request each, same as post URLs.

Fetch specific posts — hand it post permalinks (.../posts/<id>, permalink.php?story_fbid=…, /reel/<id>, /videos/<id>) and it fetches each one directly, one request per post, no feed walk. You get the body text, publish time, reaction total and the per-emoji breakdown, comment count and video views. Mix Pages and post URLs in the same run; posts are fetched first.

A permalink for a deleted or private post still answers HTTP 200 with an empty shell, so a missing post is reported as missing and is not charged, rather than filed as a blank row.

sharesCount is usually present on post URLs as well. On some posts Facebook hides it from logged-out viewers, and then it comes back null rather than 0, so "not shown" stays distinct from a real zero. Checked on 2026-09-11: 4 of 5 NASA post URLs returned a share count.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
startUrls	array	— (required)	Page URLs, handles, profile.php?id=…, post permalinks, or photo permalinks
scrapeMode	string	posts	posts (feed), photos (photos tab), or both
maxPosts	integer	100	Hard cap per Page for the feed
maxPhotos	integer	100	Hard cap per Page for the photos tab
maxItems	integer	1000	Hard cap for the whole run (posts + photos)
onlyPostsNewerThan	string	—	e.g. 2026-01-01; stops the walk at the first older post
captionText	boolean	false	Pull Facebook's own video/reel transcript when the post has one
includeComments	boolean	true	Attach comment bodies as topComments. Off keeps the count only
proxy	object	included	Leave empty — residential is on and not billed to you

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/nasa" },
    { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/natgeo" }
  ],
  "maxPosts": 50,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "2026-01-01"
}

Photos tab only:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.facebook.com/nasa" }],
  "scrapeMode": "photos",
  "maxPhotos": 24
}

Output

One row per post.

{
  "pageUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/nasa",
  "pageName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "pageId": "100044561550831",
  "facebookId": "100044561550831",
  "legacyId": "1620874212741282",
  "postId": "1620874212741282",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/nasa/posts/1620874212741282",
  "topLevelUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/100044561550831/posts/1620874212741282",
  "time": "2026-09-04T15:07:02.000Z",
  "timestamp": 1788534422,
  "text": "AvGeeks, assemble! MAX POWER, America's newest and most exciting aerospace technology expo…",
  "topReactionsCount": 4,
  "reactionLikeCount": 969,
  "reactionLoveCount": 124,
  "reactionWowCount": 15,
  "reactionCareCount": 11,
  "likesCount": 1119,
  "likes": 1119,
  "commentsCount": 94,
  "comments": 94,
  "sharesCount": 115,
  "shares": 115,
  "viewsCount": 27270,
  "isVideo": true,
  "isSharedFromAnotherPage": false,
  "photoCount": 1,
  "attachments": [{ "__typename": "Video", "thumbnail": "https://scontent…", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/28631238109803230/", "playableUrl": "https://video…mp4" }],
  "media": [{ "__typename": "Video", "thumbnail": "https://scontent…", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/28631238109803230/", "playableUrl": "https://video…mp4" }],
  "playableUrl": "https://video…mp4",
  "captionText": "MAX POWER NASA Kennedy Space Center nasa.gov/maxpower",
  "textReferences": [],
  "collaborators": [],
  "link": null,
  "pageAdLibrary": { "is_business_page_active": false, "id": "54971236771" },
  "user": { "id": "100044561550831", "name": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/100044561550831", "profilePic": "https://scontent…" },
  "topComments": [
    { "commentId": "28187513214220429", "text": "Learn about NASA's ER-2 aircraft: https://www.nasa.gov/…", "threadingDepth": 0, "profileId": "100044561550831", "profileName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "profilePicture": "https://scontent…", "commentUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/nasa/posts/1620874212741282?comment_id=28187513214220429" }
  ]
}

Fields — pageUrl, pageName, pageId, facebookId, legacyId, postId, id, url, facebookUrl, topLevelUrl, time, timestamp, text, user (id, name, profileUrl, profilePic), attachments / media (photos include ocrText, photo_product_tags, feedback; videos include playableUrl when Facebook exposes one), photoCount, additionalPhotoCount, topReactionsCount, reactionLikeCount, reactionLoveCount, reactionWowCount, reactionCareCount, likesCount / likes, commentsCount / comments, sharesCount / shares, viewsCount, isVideo, isSharedFromAnotherPage, textReferences, link, collaborators, pageAdLibrary, captionText (only when the transcript toggle is on), topComments, feedbackId, isMarketplaceListing.

A photos-tab row looks like this:

{
  "dataType": "photo",
  "id": "1629624498532920",
  "facebookId": "100044561550831",
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1629624498532920&set=pb.100044561550831.-2207520000&type=3",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1629624498532920&set=pb.100044561550831.-2207520000&type=3",
  "image": "https://scontent…/1629624501866253_n.jpg",
  "imageHeight": 1487,
  "imageWidth": 2047,
  "thumbnail": "https://scontent…/s206x206…",
  "ocrText": "NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson…",
  "pageUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/nasa",
  "pageName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "pageId": "100044561550831",
  "inputUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/nasa"
}

ocrText is Facebook's accessibility caption. When Facebook ships the placeholder "No photo description available.", the field is null.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: one flat fee per post or photo delivered (post, $0.00099). Failed pages cost nothing, and items beyond your cap are never delivered, so they are never charged.

Platform usage is compute and data transfer only — the residential proxy is on our pool and never appears on your bill.

Limits & honest caveats

• Public Pages only. A private profile, a group or an event URL has no public timeline feed; the run says so per URL rather than returning an empty dataset.
• Facebook rate-limits the logged-out feed. The actor paces its requests and retries on a fresh IP, which is why a large run takes minutes rather than seconds. Pushing harder would return fewer posts, not more.
• Comment bodies are the public ones. topComments is what a logged-out visitor sees on the post — not the full thread. Use the comments scraper when you need every reply.
• Video transcripts are Facebook's own captions, not a Whisper pass. Turn on captionText and you get the track when Facebook published one; otherwise captionText is null.
• pageAdLibrary is a stub — { is_business_page_active, id }. It is not ad creatives or spend.
• Reel and video URLs are read through their post. A /reel/<id>/ or /videos/<id>/ link lands on a player shell with little data; the actor follows it to the owning post page (one extra request) so you get the same row a post URL would give.
• viewsCount is Facebook's rendered view count (the "27K views" number), not the looped-play total. Photo posts have no view count and stay null.
• Reaction sub-counts are what Facebook exposes publicly, which for some posts is a partial breakdown rather than the full total.

FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account or cookies? No. Everything comes from the public, logged-out view.

Why is a big run slower than I expect? Facebook rate-limits the logged-out feed endpoint aggressively. The actor deliberately paces its cursor fetches and rotates exit IPs on a rate limit. That is the difference between a run that finishes and one that stops after six posts.

Will this break when Facebook changes its frontend? Less often than most, but honestly: partly. The id for a feed's first page is read from the Page's own HTML on every run, so a rotation there costs nothing. The pagination query's id lives in Facebook's JS bundles; the actor tries to read it per run and falls back to a known-good value when that lookup runs out of its time budget, which on the platform it usually does. So pagination is currently as rotation-proof as a pinned id, and the first page is genuinely self-healing.

Can I scrape a Facebook group with this? No — a group's feed is a different query. This actor tells you when a URL is not a Page instead of returning nothing.

Does Include video transcript run speech-to-text? No. It fetches the VTT/SRT Facebook already attached to the video, when there is one.

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