Facebook Phone Number Scraper

The Facebook Phone Number Scraper (also known as Facebook Number Scraper) is an Apify actor designed to extract phone numbers from Facebook pages using targeted keywords and country-specific dial codes.

Key Features

• Accurate Phone Extraction: Utilizes our own secret model to identify and format phone numbers in E.164 format.
• Country-Specific Parsing: Supports a wide range of countries by mapping country names to their dial codes and ISO codes for precise phone number detection.
• Deduplication: Ensures that duplicate phone numbers are skipped, delivering a clean set of unique results.
• Seamless Apify Integration: Designed as an Apify actor, making it easy to deploy and integrate into your web scraping workflows.
• Cost-Effective & Scalable: Offers the most affordable pricing in the market while being highly scalable to meet both small- and large-scale scraping needs.

Input

The scraper accepts a JSON input with the following parameters:

• keyword:

  • Type: string
  • Description: The search term to use (e.g., "John", "Air Fryer", etc.).
  • Default: "John"

• platform:

  • Type: string
  • Description: The target platform.
  • Default: "Facebook"

• country:

  • Type: string
  • Description: The country to target when scraping phone numbers. The value should be a string in the format "Country Name (+DialCode)".
  • Default: "United Kingdom (+44)"

Example input:

1{
2  "keyword": "John",
3  "platform": "Facebook",
4  "country": "United Kingdom (+44)"
5}

Output

The scraper outputs a JSON array of objects where each object contains the following fields:

• title: The title of the search result.
• url: The URL of the Facebook page or result.
• description: A brief description or snippet from the search result.
• phone_number: The extracted phone number in E.164 format.

Example output:

1[
2  {
3    "title": "John Doe Official",
4    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/johndoe",
5    "description": "Official Facebook page of John",
6    "phone_number": "+447700*******"
7  },
8  {
9    "title": "John's Air Fryers",
10    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/JohnsAirFryers",
11    "description": "Find the best air fryer deals...",
12    "phone_number": "+447700*******"
13  }
14]

How to Use

1. Configure Input:
   Set your input parameters (keyword, platform, country) either through the Apify web interface or via API calls.

2. Run the Actor:
   Execute the actor. The scraper will:

   • Scrape, parse and extract valid phone numbers.

3. Retrieve Data:
   Once the actor finishes execution, the scraped data will be available in the output section.

Best Use Cases

• Business Lead Generation: Quickly gather contact numbers of businesses or individuals on Facebook for outreach campaigns.
• Market Research: Extract public contact details for market analysis, trend tracking, or competitor analysis.
• Data Enrichment: Supplement your existing databases with additional contact information scraped from Facebook.
• Event Promotion: Identify potential venues, organizers, or partners by retrieving contact numbers from relevant Facebook pages.
• Social Media Analysis: Combine scraped contact data with other social metrics for a comprehensive view of your target audience.

Start scraping Facebook phone numbers today by configuring your keyword, selecting the appropriate country, and running the Facebook Phone Number Scraper on Apify!