👥 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.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-24 · 📊 25 fields per group · 👥 Member counts · 🔒 Privacy detection · 📍 Location metadata

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

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📋 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.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
startUrls	array of strings	required	Group URLs or slugs. Both https://www.facebook.com/groups/myslug and myslug are accepted.
maxItems	integer	10	Cap number of groups returned. Free plan tops out at 10.
enrichGroup	boolean	true	Pulls the extended metadata block: admin list, rules, recent post preview, pinned post, language.
proxyConfiguration	object	residential	Override the proxy group if you need a specific country.

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📊 Output

Every group is returned as a flat JSON record with 25 fields.

🧾 Key fields

Field	Type	Description
groupId	string	Stable Facebook group id.
slug	string	Group slug from the URL path.
name	string	Display name of the group.
url	string	Canonical Facebook URL.
description	string	Long-form group description, cleaned of FB privacy boilerplate.
memberCount	integer	Parsed member total. Handles K/M/B suffixes.
privacy	string	Either public or private.
coverPhoto	string	URL of the cover image.
category	string	Group category label when Facebook exposes one.
admins	array	List of admin profiles with name and URL.
moderators	array	List of moderator profiles.
rules	array of strings	Posted group rules.
joinApprovalRequired	boolean	True when new members need admin approval.
location	string	City or region when Facebook exposes it.
createdAt	ISO 8601	Group creation date when published.
recentPostPreview	string	Short text preview of the most recent public post.
scrapedAt	ISO 8601	Run timestamp.

📦 Sample record

{
  "groupId": "2322534371176100",
  "slug": "DigitalNomadsAroundTheWorld",
  "name": "Digital Nomads Around the World",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/DigitalNomadsAroundTheWorld",
  "description": "A community for digital nomads to connect, share tips and find co-working spots worldwide.",
  "memberCount": 201500,
  "privacy": "private",
  "coverPhoto": "https://scontent.fqfd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/...",
  "category": "Travel",
  "admins": [{"name": "Aaron", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007..."}],
  "moderators": [],
  "rules": ["Be respectful.", "No spam.", "Stay on topic."],
  "joinApprovalRequired": true,
  "location": null,
  "createdAt": null,
  "recentPostPreview": "Looking for co-working recommendations in Lisbon...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-24T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 25 fields per group. Most alternatives return name and member count only.
• Rules and admins included. Useful for outreach targeting and community-fit scoring.
• Privacy-aware. Explicit flag for public vs private groups with join-approval signal.
• Clean description text. Strips the "Anyone can see who's in the group" boilerplate Facebook injects.
• No tokens, no auth. Anonymous access to public group pages.

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🚀 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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🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📊 Lead Generation Teams - Build vetted lists of communities where your ICP hangs out, ranked by member count and filtered by rules content
• 💼 Marketing Researchers - Map niches and sub-communities around a product category to cluster intent and audience tone
• 🔬 Community Managers - Track the groups your competitors own or participate in to quantify audience surface area around each brand
• 🤝 Partnership Teams - Pull admin profile links to build outreach lists for co-marketing, guest posts, and influencer collaborations

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🔌 Automating Facebook Groups Scraper

• Schedule weekly refreshes so member counts stay current in your CRM.
• Pipe new groups into Airtable, Notion, Google Sheets or HubSpot through Apify integrations.
• Trigger on demand from n8n, Make or Zapier workflows.
• Hit the Apify REST API from your own backend for custom orchestration.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Datasets for sociology, digital anthropology, and network science Longitudinal studies on community growth and migration Reproducible research with cited, versioned dataset pulls Classroom exercises on online communities and ethics	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Writers researching subcultures and online communities Podcasters building guest lists from community admins Genealogists tracking family history and ancestry groups
🤝 Non-profit and civic Advocacy groups documenting community landscapes by issue Investigative journalism on community network reach Transparency reports on coordinated community behavior Civic accountability databases with public group records	🧪 Experimentation Train community-classification and recommendation models Validate partnership or content hypotheses with real data Prototype agent pipelines for community discovery Test dashboard concepts with live group metadata

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Does it work on private groups? Only public group metadata is accessible. Private group content is not returned.

How accurate is memberCount? We parse Facebook's formatted counts (e.g. "1.2M members") and return integers. Accuracy matches whatever the group header shows.

Can I get the posts inside a group? This Actor returns metadata plus a short preview of the most recent public post. Full post streams require a sign-in and are not supported here.

Do I need a Facebook account? No. The Actor runs anonymously against public group pages.

How fresh is the data? Every run hits Facebook live, so counts and descriptions reflect the current state.

What if I only have the slug, not the full URL? Pass the slug alone. The Actor resolves it to https://www.facebook.com/groups/{slug} automatically.

Are admin names always returned? When Facebook exposes them in the public group header. Some groups hide the admin list.

Does it detect the group language? The language field returns a two-letter ISO code when Facebook publishes it in the metadata block.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Plug results into Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, LangChain, and 100+ other platforms through Apify's integration library. The Apify REST API is available for direct backend use.

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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.

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🆘 Support

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⚠️ 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.