Facebook Posts Scraper

Facebook Posts Scraper

Extract public Facebook posts, post text, engagement metrics, reaction breakdowns, and attached media from Facebook Pages and profiles.

The Facebook Posts Scraper automates the extraction of public posts and content engagement from Facebook.

Whether you need to monitor brand mention sentiment, analyze social media campaign performance, track competitor activity, or archive public Page posts, this Actor delivers clean, structured social data at scale.

Optional filtering with smart date range (min - max)

Features

• 📜 Public Page & Profile Post Scraping: Extract posts, status updates, stories, and shared links directly using Facebook URLs.

• 📊 In-Depth Engagement Metrics: Capture total counts for likes, comments, and shares for every scraped post.

• ❤️ Detailed Reaction Breakdown: Extract exact reaction distribution, including Like (J'aime), Love (J'adore), Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry counts.

• 🖼️ Media & Attachment Extraction: Collect photo URLs, attachment links, media IDs, and media types associated with each post.

• ⏰ Timestamp & Permalink Tracking: Retrieve precise publication timestamps, human-readable dates, post IDs, and canonical post permalinks.

• ⚡ High-Performance & Anti-Blocking: Built with smart session management and Apify Proxy support to maintain reliable extraction rates.

• 📂 Multi-Format Data Export: Export clean datasets to JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, or HTML.

USE CASES

• Brand & Competitor Social Monitoring: Track posting frequency, content strategy, and engagement rates of competing brands.

• Sentiment & Reaction Analysis: Analyze user emotional responses by tracking reaction breakdowns (Love, Haha, Sad, etc.) across campaign posts.

• Influencer & Creator Analytics: Evaluate organic reach, average interaction rates, and content quality of prospective brand partners.

• Content Archiving & Social Intelligence: Archive public Page timelines for market research, academic studies, or trend forecasting.

OUTPUT

From Page

{
  "post_id": "1648284428538472",
  "creation_time": 1504955308,
  "creation_time_date": "2017-09-09 13:08:28",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/creachriscrochet/posts/pfbid0Mx2YZRPuUPKHvqZoy6qSsZLbPtzCwG5VAWLLrq84D7n6aakpgftoqL95EuS7phM8l",
  "owner_id": "100067778341320",
  "owner_name": "CreaChris",
  "text": "Une commande un peu spéciale de ma maman qui a souhaité avoir un petit lutin de Noël ❤️",
  "story_id": "UzpfSTgzMjcwNjg3MzQyOTU2OToxNjQ4Mjg0NDI4NTM4NDcyOjE2NDgyODQ0Mjg1Mzg0NzI=",
  "likes": 12,
  "comments": 5,
  "shares": 1,
  "likes_breakdown": [
    {
      "name": "J’aime",
      "count": 9
    },
    {
      "name": "J’adore",
      "count": 3
    }
  ],
  "attachments": [
    {
      "media_image": "https://scontent-cdg6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/650109029_26683402667933302_1323148467762648575_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx822x960&ctp=s822x960&_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=OxB6C6CCuCgQ7kNvwFrfpwq&_nc_oc=AdpmoPyWxU3S7N6pAa1odP90QNOIz8C0_SX-twneBx2KUY95sQPOUj4AIv3uQrIYf7fNU32_R6iGRERvQalCUnjI&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg6-1.xx&_nc_gid=08N2E3Lfq4jKxoRXDZ9-Rw&_nc_ss=7b289&oh=00_AQJR4L4FkPIH7Nj0JpITfwGSzAjUHTEvWqHDuipMR7Qc8g&oe=6A9C971B",
      "media_url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1648284338538481&set=a.369027065366569",
      "media_id": "1648284338538481",
      "media_type": "Photo"
    }
  ]
}

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