Facebook Group Details Scraper - Metadata & Rules

Review the public identity, description, membership signals and rules of Facebook groups in a consistent dataset. Facebook Group Details Scraper accepts group URLs, vanity names or numeric IDs and saves one metadata row per processed group.

Use it to qualify communities before deeper research. A visible private-group overview does not make private discussions or member lists available.

At a glance	Details
📥 Input	Group URLs, vanity names or numeric IDs
📤 Output	Identity, description, privacy, member counts, rules and visible staff previews
📄 Collection	One group detail lookup; no feed pagination
🔐 Facebook login	Not required
💾 Delivery	One table with matching flat JSON and exportable rows

What the Facebook group details scraper extracts 👥

The Actor collects the group name, URL, description, pictures, privacy and discoverability labels, member-count text and numeric counts when exposed. It can also return creation history, visible administrator or moderator previews, group rules and navigation tabs.

Staff previews are limited to what the public response supplies. The administrator count and the length of the returned administrator lists can differ; these lists are not a complete membership export.

How to scrape Facebook group details 🚀

1. Add a group URL, vanity name or numeric group ID to inputList.
2. Use a separate string for each group.
3. Start the Actor and review privacy, member and status columns.
4. Export the dataset or add the records to your research workflow.

{"inputList":["457660044251817"]}

A URL such as https://www.facebook.com/groups/harborartists/ is also a valid input form. Example targets illustrate syntax and may not be publicly available.

Group data fields and output 📦

Field group	Included data
Identity	Group ID, vanity name, name, URL, description and pictures
Visibility	Privacy, discoverability, explanatory text and public-group flag
Membership	Parsed member count, displayed member text and available join state
History	Creation timestamp, date, history text and theme color
Administration	Administrator count and aligned admin or moderator identity lists
Community information	Rule titles and descriptions, tab labels and links

Complete illustrative success row. Group identity, counts and other values are examples, not a live-group report:

{
  "input": "harborartists",
  "status": "success",
  "id": "457660044251817",
  "username": "harborartists",
  "name": "Harbor Artists Community",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/harborartists/",
  "description": "A public group for sharing local artwork, workshops and creative projects.",
  "profile_picture_url": "https://images.example.com/harbor-artists.jpg",
  "cover_picture_url": "https://images.example.com/harbor-artists-cover.jpg",
  "privacy": "Public group",
  "privacy_description": "Anyone can see who is in the group and what they post.",
  "is_public": true,
  "discoverability": "Visible",
  "discoverability_description": "Anyone can find this group.",
  "members_count": 8400,
  "members_text": "8.4K members",
  "created_timestamp": 1592211600,
  "created_at": "2020-06-15T09:00:00Z",
  "history_text": "Group created on June 15, 2020",
  "viewer_join_state": "CAN_JOIN",
  "theme_color": "#1877F2",
  "admins_count": 2,
  "admins.id": [
    "100200300400500",
    "100200300400501"
  ],
  "admins.page_id": [
    "100200300400500",
    "100200300400501"
  ],
  "admins.username": [
    "harborartscollective",
    "harborworkshops"
  ],
  "admins.name": [
    "Harbor Arts Collective",
    "Harbor Workshops"
  ],
  "admins.url": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/harborartscollective/",
    "https://www.facebook.com/harborworkshops/"
  ],
  "admins.profile_picture_url": [
    "https://images.example.com/harbor-arts.jpg",
    ""
  ],
  "admins.is_verified": [
    false,
    false
  ],
  "moderators.id": [],
  "moderators.page_id": [],
  "moderators.username": [],
  "moderators.name": [],
  "moderators.url": [],
  "moderators.profile_picture_url": [],
  "moderators.is_verified": [],
  "rules.id": [
    "101",
    "102"
  ],
  "rules.title": [
    "Share relevant work",
    "Be respectful"
  ],
  "rules.description": [
    "Keep posts focused on art and local creative events.",
    "Give constructive feedback and credit the original creator."
  ],
  "tabs.type": [
    "discussion",
    "about"
  ],
  "tabs.title": [
    "Discussion",
    "About"
  ],
  "tabs.url": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/groups/harborartists/",
    "https://www.facebook.com/groups/harborartists/about/"
  ]
}

JSON keys such as admins.name and rules.title are literal names in the same table. Matching positions in related lists describe the same administrator, rule or tab. Missing item fields keep their positions as null; empty lists remain []. Nested lists retain their dimensions.

On success, missing source data can also remain an empty string, 0 or false. A zero count is not proof that there are no members or administrators. Missing or empty objects become null. Failed rows retain input, use status: failed and set group-data fields to null.

Input requirements and group coverage ⚙️

Parameter	Type	Required	Default and limits
inputList	Array of strings	Yes	At least one item; no default target or configured item-count maximum

Bare IDs and vanity names may contain letters, digits, dots, underscores or hyphens and be up to 100 characters long. Full group URLs use /groups/GROUP/; standard, mobile and web Facebook hosts are supported. A Page URL is not a group URL.

There is no page-count setting. The Actor reads the available group overview, not the discussion feed. The same normalized queued target is normally handled once, while different aliases for the same group may remain separate inputs.

Facebook group research use cases 🎯

Community qualification

Compare group topics, descriptions, public visibility and available membership signals before selecting communities for research.

Group directories

Maintain IDs, names, links and descriptions in a searchable directory, with status retained for unavailable inputs.

Rules and moderation research

Review published rules and visible staff previews to understand a group's stated participation requirements.

Group change tracking

Revisit known targets to compare descriptions, privacy labels, member-count text and available history information.

Pricing and billable group rows 💰

The Actor's Pricing tab gives the current pricing model and rate. Under dataset-item pricing, each saved group result can be billable, including failed rows.

Rules, administrator previews and tabs remain within the group row rather than becoming additional dataset items. Automatic retries do not independently add rows.

Facebook group details API and integrations 🔌

Replace $ACTOR_ID with the Actor ID from its API tab and $APIFY_TOKEN with your Apify token.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/$ACTOR_ID/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"inputList":["457660044251817"]}'

Schedule repeated lookups or trigger them from a database of group links. Connect the results to spreadsheets, Make, Zapier or an internal directory through exports and integrations.

Reliability and group limits ⚠️

A group's public overview can be partial even when the request succeeds. Membership labels may be rounded, and counts or privacy flags may be absent or defaulted. Read the accompanying text fields when interpreting these values.

Temporary request failures are retried. Login restrictions, hidden groups and public-response changes can produce failed rows. Results from other inputs remain available unless a broader run or storage failure interrupts processing.

Frequently asked questions ❓

Can it read private group posts?

No. A private group may expose some overview information, but this Actor does not access private discussions.

Does it return every member or administrator?

No. It returns available counts and visible administrator or moderator previews, without a complete membership crawl.

Can I use a vanity group name?

Yes. Submit the name, a numeric ID string or the full /groups/ URL.

Why do the administrator count and lists differ?

Facebook can expose a total count while showing only a limited preview. The Actor keeps both values as supplied.

Does it also return group posts?

No. Use Facebook Group Posts Scraper to collect posts from an accessible public discussion feed.

Support, responsible use, and related actors 🛟

Share the run ID and a safe group target that demonstrates the issue. Do not include private group content, credentials or API tokens.

Use public group information in accordance with applicable privacy, copyright and platform requirements.