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Facebook Groups Scraper

Facebook Groups Scraperr extracts public posts, comments, reactions, and group metadata from Facebook groups. Export structured JSON for research, analytics, automation, and monitoring. Fast, scalable, and built for reliable Facebook data scraping workflows. 🚀

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You can access the Facebook Groups Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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            "description": "📌 **Add Your Target Groups** 📌\n\n✨ Paste one or more public Facebook group URLs here.\n\n⚠️ **Important:** Only public groups are supported. Private groups require authentication.\n\n💡 **Tip:** You can scrape multiple groups in one run!",
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            "description": "⏰ **Set Your Time Boundary** ⏰\n\nStop scraping when posts are older than this date.\n\n📝 **Format Options:**\n• **Absolute:** YYYY-MM-DD (e.g., 2024-01-15)\n• **Relative:** Natural language (e.g., \"2 weeks\", \"7 days\", \"1 month\")\n\n💡 **Examples:**\n• \"2024-01-01\" - Posts from January 2024 onwards\n• \"30 days\" - Posts from the last month\n• \"1 year\" - Posts from the last year"
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            "title": "🍪 Facebook Cookie String",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "📋 **How to get your cookies:**\n\n1. Log into Facebook in your browser\n2. Open DevTools → **Application** → **Cookies** → `https://www.facebook.com`\n3. Copy the cookie header (must include at least `c_user` and `xs`)\n\n📝 **Format:** `c_user=100000...; xs=12%3A...; datr=...; fr=...`\n\n⚠️ **Privacy:** Use a dedicated/secondary account. Cookies grant access to that account.\n\n💡 **Tip:** Leave empty to attempt logged-out (public-only) scraping via residential proxy."
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Facebook Groups Scraper OpenAPI definition

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