Facebook Comments Scraper

💬 Facebook Comments Scraper

Scrape and export Facebook comments from any public post, reel, video or group post, with no login and no Graph API token. The Facebook Comments Scraper returns each comment's text, author, exact date, reaction count, reply count and attached GIF or sticker, and can add the replies (and replies to replies) with a link to the comment they answer. Paste many post URLs in one run and download the comments to Excel, CSV or JSON. Use it as a Facebook comment exporter for giveaways and comment pickers, sentiment analysis, customer feedback research and lead lists.

🎯 Use Cases

• Facebook comment picker for giveaways: export every comment of a contest post to a spreadsheet and draw the winner from the full list, not just the comments Facebook shows first.
• Export Facebook comments to Excel: a clean table of who said what and when, for reports, moderation and archiving.
• Sentiment analysis and social listening: collect comments on brand, competitor and news posts and feed them to an AI model or a sentiment tool.
• Customer feedback research: read what people ask and complain about under product launches, ads and announcements.
• Lead lists from comments: find the people who comment "interested" or ask for prices under a post.
• Group discussions: scrape the comments of public group posts together with the Facebook Group Posts Scraper.

✨ Features

• Any public post: page posts, reels, videos, photos, group posts, story.php and permalink.php links. Watch and share links are followed to the post.
• Deep comment lists: 10 comments per page, page after page; we read 600 comments of one NASA post without reaching the end.
• Replies on demand: turn on "Include replies" to also get the replies and the replies to replies, each row with depth and parentId.
• Sort order: all comments (default), newest first, or most relevant, the same choices Facebook gives.
• Media in comments: GIFs, stickers and photos posted as comments come back as imageUrl.
• Fair billing: each comment is saved and charged once per run, even when two URLs point to the same post. Posts that are removed or not public are listed in the status message and not charged.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Paste Facebook post URLs: one per line, e.g. https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02or… or https://www.facebook.com/groups/…/posts/….
2. Set the limit and options: 50 comments per post by default; pick the sort order and whether to include replies.
3. Run the scraper: download the comments as Excel, CSV or JSON, or get them through the API.

⚙️ Input

Field	What it does
Facebook post URLs	Public post, reel, video, photo or group post URLs, one per line.
Max comments per post	Stop after this many comments from each post. Replies count too when they are included. Default 50.
Sort comments	all (All comments, default), newest (Newest first) or relevant (Most relevant, can hide some comments).
Include replies	Also save the replies to each comment. Off by default.

{
    "postUrls": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02or2A5mwjUdptjrR9LiDcrdfV73poxS7Mn1GwdCN2mS5ntTcvF4owZKCsMLSbajEUl",
        "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1863947697952668/"
    ],
    "maxItems": 500,
    "sortBy": "newest",
    "includeReplies": true
}

💰 Pricing

You pay per comment saved, with no monthly rental.

Event	Price	What you get
Comment	$0.001 per comment ($1 per 1,000)	One comment or reply with all the fields below
Actor start	$0.00005 per run	Charged once when the run starts

Examples: 500 comments cost $0.50 and 10,000 comments cost $10. Replies are comments, so each saved reply is one Comment event. Posts that are removed, private or have no comments are listed in the run's status message and are not charged.

📊 Sample Output Data

{
    "id": "1862694261574416",
    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02or2A5mwjUdptjrR9LiDcrdfV73poxS7Mn1GwdCN2mS5ntTcvF4owZKCsMLSbajEUl?comment_id=1862694261574416",
    "text": "This looks like a PS2 cut scene",
    "createdAt": "2026-10-17T00:31:04.000Z",
    "reactions": 305,
    "replies": 8,
    "depth": 0,
    "parentId": null,
    "author": {
        "name": "Alberto Sánchez",
        "id": "pfbid02n262CRVSoKhn3Z1NZ9Y9H6o2NnfwqGHpxPVdgPfxDDbCd2DjXkuG2qBPyWNWAzvZl",
        "url": null,
        "profilePictureUrl": "https://scontent.fpos3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/855728896_10241867353517762_1802761522569040999_n.jpg?…"
    },
    "imageUrl": null,
    "postId": "1658876782274358",
    "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/float-into-the-weekend-like-a-space-jellyfish-this-fuzzy-glowing-jellyfish-shape/1658876782274358/",
    "inputUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02or2A5mwjUdptjrR9LiDcrdfV73poxS7Mn1GwdCN2mS5ntTcvF4owZKCsMLSbajEUl",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T14:32:37.079Z"
}

A reply carries the comment it answers in parentId and depth: 1 (a reply to a reply has depth: 2):

"depth": 1,
"parentId": "1862694261574416",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02or…?comment_id=1862694261574416&reply_comment_id=2519402785223724",
"imageUrl": "https://external.fpos3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/emg1/v/t13/4266532889711215789?…giphy.gif…"

replies is the number of replies Facebook counts for the comment. author.id is the commenter's public ID as Facebook shows it to logged-out visitors (often an encoded pfbid… value), and author.url is filled only when Facebook shows a profile link. inputUrl is the URL you entered, so rows from several posts are easy to group.

⏰ Schedule and Integrate

Run it daily on your latest posts to keep a running archive of new comments, or once when a giveaway closes. Set it up with Apify Schedules, and send the results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or your own webhook through the Apify integrations.

🤖 Use with AI Agents (MCP)

The scraper works as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). An agent can call it with:

{ "postUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02or2A5mwjUdptjrR9LiDcrdfV73poxS7Mn1GwdCN2mS5ntTcvF4owZKCsMLSbajEUl"], "maxItems": 100 }

❓ FAQ

Does Facebook have an official comments API? The Graph API returns comments only for pages you manage, with an app review and access tokens. This scraper reads the comments any logged-out visitor can see on a public post, with no key or approval, and returns them in one flat table.

Do I need a Facebook account or cookies? No. Only public posts work; posts in private groups or with limited audiences are reported as not available and not charged.

How do I export Facebook comments to Excel for a giveaway? Paste the contest post URL, set "Max comments per post" above the post's comment count, keep "All comments" sorting, run, and download the dataset as Excel. Turn on "Include replies" if replies count as entries.

Can I scrape all comments from a Facebook post? Yes, up to the limit you set. Facebook itself can hide spam or low-quality comments from everyone, so the saved count can be a little lower than the number on the post.

Why is author.url empty? Facebook hides most commenter profile links from logged-out visitors. The name, encoded ID and profile picture are still there.

Why is text empty on some comments? Those comments are only a GIF, sticker or photo; the image link is in imageUrl.

How long do the image links work? Facebook's media links expire after a few days, so download the files you need soon after the run.

🔗 More Facebook Actors

• Facebook Group Posts Scraper: the posts of public groups; feed their URLs here for the comments.
• Facebook Posts Scraper: the posts of public pages with engagement counts.
• Facebook Pages Scraper: page profile, followers, contact details and rating.
• Facebook Ads Library Scraper: ads from Meta's Ad Library by keyword.