📡 Facebook Group Radar

Facebook Group Radar is a Facebook group scraper, discovery and ranking tool. It takes group URLs (or keyword/container-URL discovery), scrapes each public group's About/profile data logged-out, derives sortable metrics and a 0–100 quality score, ranks the groups, and turns admins and moderators into enriched leads. It is a superset of a plain Facebook group profile scraper: every field the base scraper produced is preserved, and discovery + scoring + lead intelligence are added on top.

Keywords: facebook group scraper, facebook group finder, facebook group discovery, facebook group ranking, facebook group lead generation, facebook group members count, facebook group metrics, facebook group admins, facebook group moderators, facebook about page scraper, facebook groups API alternative, apify facebook scraper.

🔍 What it does

• Scrape group profiles — group ID, name, description, creation time (absolute ISO), privacy, discoverability, activity (posts today / last month, member count text, new members), admins and moderators.
• Discovery — pass search keywords or Facebook container URLs (e.g. /search/groups/?q=...); Radar parses the group links they contain and scrapes each one. Discovery shares the same parser as direct scraping.
• Metrics & quality score — memberCountNumeric, postsPerDayAvg, engagementPer1kMembers, ageDays, and a composite qualityScore (size + activity + governance).
• Ranking — every group gets a rank field, sorted by qualityScore, members, or activityScore.
• Leads — admin/moderator profiles become lead objects with name, role, url, profileId, profileType, and a messageUrl (only for numeric-ID profiles; null otherwise — no fabricated IDs).
• Optional AI enhancement — classify each group's niche/topics and estimate lead quality from its name + description, via Anthropic / OpenAI / Google / xAI / DeepSeek / Perplexity / Mistral (auto-detected from the model name).

📥 Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Group URLs / IDs / handles, and/or container URLs that list many groups.
searchQueries	array	Keywords to discover groups. Logged-out FB search is often blocked in datacenter regions — see below.
maxGroupsPerQuery	integer	Cap discovered groups per keyword / container. Default 10.
minMembers	integer	Drop groups below this member count. Default 0.
rankBy	enum	qualityScore | members | activityScore.
keywords	array	Keep only groups whose name/description contains one of these.
excludeKeywords	array	Drop groups whose name/description contains one of these.
enrichLeads	boolean	Build admin/moderator lead objects. Default true.
aiEnhancement	boolean	Opt-in LLM niche + lead-quality classification. Default false.
aiModel / aiApiKey	string	Provider auto-detected from the model; key stored as a secret.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy. Residential recommended — Facebook blocks datacenter IPs.

JSON input example

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/groups/535363634111893"],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "rankBy": "qualityScore",
  "minMembers": 0,
  "enrichLeads": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

📤 Output

One row per group, ranked. Base fields (groupId, groupName, groupDescription, groupCreatedTime, activity, about, adminProfiles, moderatorsProfiles) plus Radar fields:

{
  "groupId": "990295388988357",
  "type": "group",
  "rank": 1,
  "groupName": "Example Group",
  "groupUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/990295388988357",
  "groupCreatedTime": "2023-07-04T04:26:17.000Z",
  "memberCountNumeric": 23700,
  "qualityScore": 71,
  "activityScore": 12.53,
  "postsLastMonth": 376,
  "privacy": "Public",
  "leadsCount": 1,
  "metrics": { "memberCountNumeric": 23700, "postsPerDayAvg": 12.53, "engagementPer1kMembers": 15.87, "qualityScore": 71, "ageDays": 900, "isPublic": true },
  "leads": [
    { "name": "Jane Admin", "role": "admin", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001234567890", "profileId": "100001234567890", "profileType": "numeric_id", "messageUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/messages/t/100001234567890" }
  ],
  "matchedQuery": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-02T10:00:00.000Z"
}

⚠️ Logged-out discovery limitation

This actor runs logged-out (no cookies). Facebook frequently redirects logged-out group search to a login wall, especially from datacenter IPs. When that happens, the keyword query is reported as blocked in the run log and returns no groups — the actor never fabricates group URLs. For reliable results, pass direct group URLs or container URLs whose group links are present in the returned HTML, and enable residential proxy.

⚖️ Compliance

Extracts only publicly visible group metadata. Do not scrape private groups you are not a member of, and do not collect sensitive personal data. Comply with Facebook's terms of service and applicable law.

🧾 Billing

Uses the pay-per-event model with the row_result event (one charge per group row pushed). Charging is a no-op until pay-per-event is configured in the Apify Console for this actor.