# Facebook Posts Search Scraper (`scrapio/facebook-posts-search-scraper`) Actor

🔎 Facebook Posts Search Scraper finds and extracts public Facebook posts by keyword or hashtag — capturing text, links, reactions, comments, timestamps & authors. 📊 Export to CSV/JSON for social listening, competitor analysis, content research & trend tracking. 🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapio/facebook-posts-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapio](https://apify.com/scrapio) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## Facebook Posts Search Scraper

Scrape public Facebook posts by search query. Extracts post content, engagement metrics, and metadata.

### Key Features

- **Bulk search** – Multiple queries or URLs in one run
- **Proxy fallback** – No proxy by default; auto-fallback to datacenter → residential on block
- **Live saving** – Results saved as they’re scraped
- **Retry logic** – 3 retries with exponential backoff

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `startUrls` | array | Facebook search URLs (e.g. `https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=football`) |
| `searchQueries` | array | Search keywords (used if `startUrls` is empty) |
| `maxPosts` | integer | Max posts per query (1–500, default: 50) |
| `postTimeRange` | string | Filter: `24h`, `7d`, `30d`, `90d` |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Proxy settings (default: no proxy) |

**Example input:**
```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["football", "cricket"],
  "maxPosts": 50,
  "postTimeRange": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}
````

### Output

Each post includes:

- `facebookUrl`, `pageId`, `pageName` – Page info
- `postId`, `url`, `topLevelUrl` – Post identifiers
- `time`, `timestamp` – Post date
- `likes`, `comments`, `shares` – Engagement
- `text`, `link`, `thumb` – Content
- `searchQuery` – Query that matched

### How to Use

1. Open [Apify Console](https://console.apify.com) → **Actors**
2. Select **facebook-posts-search-scraper**
3. Set inputs (queries, max posts, proxy)
4. Run the actor
5. View results in the **OUTPUT** tab
6. Export as JSON or CSV

### Proxy Behavior

- **Default:** No proxy
- **On block:** Datacenter proxy (SHADER)
- **If still blocked:** Residential proxy with 3 retries
- **After fallback:** Remaining requests use the new proxy

### Cautions

- Data is from **public** sources only
- You are responsible for legal compliance (privacy, ToS, etc.)

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
💡 Enter topics you want to explore!

Examples: football • cricket • tech news • recipes • travel

🎯 Each keyword = a separate search → more posts discovered

## `maxPosts` (type: `integer`):

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📈 How many posts to collect per keyword?

🎚️ Range: 1 → 5,000 posts
💯 Default: 50 (quick runs)
🚀 Need more? Crank it up to 5000!

## `postTimeRange` (type: `string`):

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📅 Filter by recency—get only fresh content!

⏳ All time (default) • 24h • 7d • 30d • 90d

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🛡️ Proxy configuration

💫 Works great out of the box—Apify Proxy enabled by default!
⚙️ Adjust only when you need custom setup.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "football"
  ],
  "maxPosts": 50,
  "postTimeRange": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "football"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapio/facebook-posts-search-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": ["football"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapio/facebook-posts-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "football"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call scrapio/facebook-posts-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrapio/facebook-posts-search-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Facebook Posts Search Scraper",
        "description": "🔎 Facebook Posts Search Scraper finds and extracts public Facebook posts by keyword or hashtag — capturing text, links, reactions, comments, timestamps & authors. 📊 Export to CSV/JSON for social listening, competitor analysis, content research & trend tracking. 🚀",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "w5D1oKTM6cr0YlPXw"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/scrapio~facebook-posts-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-scrapio-facebook-posts-search-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/scrapio~facebook-posts-search-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-scrapio-facebook-posts-search-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/scrapio~facebook-posts-search-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-scrapio-facebook-posts-search-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "searchQueries": {
                        "title": "🔑 Search Keywords",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n💡 Enter topics you want to explore!\n\nExamples: football • cricket • tech news • recipes • travel\n\n🎯 Each keyword = a separate search → more posts discovered",
                        "default": [
                            ""
                        ],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxPosts": {
                        "title": "📊 Max Posts per Query",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 5000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📈 How many posts to collect per keyword?\n\n🎚️ Range: 1 → 5,000 posts\n💯 Default: 50 (quick runs)\n🚀 Need more? Crank it up to 5000!",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "postTimeRange": {
                        "title": "⏱️ Time Filter",
                        "enum": [
                            "",
                            "24h",
                            "7d",
                            "30d",
                            "90d"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📅 Filter by recency—get only fresh content!\n\n⏳ All time (default) • 24h • 7d • 30d • 90d",
                        "default": ""
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "🌐 Proxy Settings",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🛡️ Proxy configuration\n\n💫 Works great out of the box—Apify Proxy enabled by default!\n⚙️ Adjust only when you need custom setup."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```