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Facebook Posts Scraper

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Scrape publicly available Facebook posts at scale, including text, images, videos, timestamps, reactions, comments, and post URLs. Perfect for research, marketing analysis, sentiment tracking, and dataset creation. Fast, reliable, and ideal for automated Facebook insights.

Pricing

$19.99/month + usage

Rating

5.0

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Scraper Engine

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147

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Monthly active users

1.5 days

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2 months ago

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Lead generation

Social media

Automation

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Facebook Posts Scraper OpenAPI definition

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