👥 Facebook Groups Scraper

🚀 Pull member count, privacy, description and admin info from any public Facebook group. Export complete group metadata into clean JSON, CSV or Excel for research, lead generation and community intelligence.

The Facebook Groups Scraper visits any public Facebook group and returns the full public profile of that group. Each record carries the group name, slug, canonical URL, member count, privacy level (public or private), group description, cover photo, admin and moderator list, posted rules, join-approval flag, creation date, recent post preview and a set of intent signals such as recent activity and pinned content.

The Actor accepts group URLs or bare slugs, resolves them to canonical Facebook URLs, and paginates through the group description and metadata blocks. You get a dataset ready for pipeline tooling: lead intelligence, audience sizing, market research, content trend mapping and community outreach.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Marketing researchers, community managers, lead generation teams, product marketers, journalists, academic researchers, agencies	Audience sizing, community mapping, competitor and niche discovery, influencer outreach, market research, content trend detection

📋 What the Facebook Groups Scraper does

Five common workflows in a single run:

• 👥 Group metadata export. Name, URL, slug, description, cover photo and category in one record per group.
• 📏 Member counts. Formatted counts like "1.2M" parsed into integers so you can rank and filter.
• 🔒 Privacy and access signals. Public versus private flag, join-approval flag and membership-question flag.
• 👑 Admin and moderator lists. Profile names and links for the people running the group.
• 📜 Group rules and recent activity. Posted rules array plus the most recent public post preview.

💡 Why it matters: Facebook's own UI makes you click through group headers one by one and never lets you export. Lead-generation tools that claim to scrape groups usually return 5 or 10 fields and break every few weeks. This Actor gives you 25 fields, covers rules and admins, and keeps the format stable across runs.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: adminList, category, city, country, coverPhotoUrl, createdAt, description, groupId, memberCount, name, postCount, privacy, profilePicUrl, recentPostPreview, results, rules, scrapedAt, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Gather group URLs or slugs from Facebook search or your own CRM.
2. Drop them into startUrls.
3. Set maxItems and keep enrichGroup true for the full metadata block.
4. Run the Actor and download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

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💡 Tips

• Pass slugs when you can. They are shorter and easier to dedupe than full URLs.
• Run weekly rather than daily. Member counts move slowly and residential bandwidth is not free.
• If a group returns empty fields, check that the URL resolves in an incognito window. Private groups won't be accessible here.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor collects only publicly accessible group metadata. You are responsible for complying with Facebook's Terms of Service, local data-protection laws (GDPR, CCPA) and any applicable research or journalism ethics. Review your use case before archiving or redistributing personal data.

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