# Facebook User Search Scraper (`scrapio/facebook-user-search-scraper`) Actor

🔎 Facebook User Search Scraper (Facebook-User-Search-Scraper) extracts public user data from Facebook search results — names, profile URLs, locations, workplaces & education. 📊 Ideal for lead gen, OSINT, recruiting & market research. ✅ Fast, reliable, compliant. 🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapio/facebook-user-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapio](https://apify.com/scrapio) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, Social media
- **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 User Search Scraper

Search by **query word(s)** on Google (using Google SERP proxy), collect Facebook profile URLs from results, then scrape each profile. Output: name, profileImage, coverImage, images, userId, profileUrl, userData (work/education). You can also add direct profile URLs via **startUrls**.

### Why use this actor?

- **Query-based** — Enter search terms (e.g. a name); the actor finds Facebook profiles via Google and scrapes them.
- **Max items per query** — Limit how many profiles to scrape per query (e.g. 10, 100, 200).
- **Google SERP proxy** — Google search runs through Apify’s Google SERP proxy for reliable results.
- **Facebook proxy fallback** — For Facebook requests: no proxy by default; if blocked, fallback to datacenter then residential.
- **Same output format** — Each item matches: `name`, `profileImage`, `coverImage`, `images`, `userId`, `profileUrl`, `userData`.

### Key features

- **queries** — One or more search words; each query is run on Google and returns up to **maxItems** Facebook profile URLs.
- **maxItems** — Max profiles to scrape per query (1–500, default 10).
- **startUrls** — Optional direct Facebook profile URLs to add to the list.
- Request delay and proxy configuration for Facebook; Google always uses SERP proxy when available.
- Live saving; detailed logs.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| **queries** | array | No* | Search query word(s). Each is sent to Google; results are limited to **maxItems** Facebook URLs per query. |
| **maxItems** | integer | No | Max profiles per query (1–500, default 10). |
| **startUrls** | array | No* | Direct Facebook profile URLs to scrape. *Provide at least **queries** or **startUrls**. |
| **requestDelay** | integer | No | Delay between Facebook requests (default 1). |
| **proxyConfiguration** | object | No | Proxy for Facebook; Google uses Google SERP proxy. |

Example (query-based):

```json
{
  "queries": ["Raisul Islam", "John Doe"],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "startUrls": [],
  "requestDelay": 1
}
````

Example (direct URLs only):

```json
{
  "queries": [],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/zuck"],
  "requestDelay": 1
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item is one profile with the same structure as the original pipeline:

- **name** — Full name from the profile.
- **profileImage** — Main profile picture URL.
- **coverImage** — Cover photo URL.
- **images** — Array of additional profile photo URLs (up to 20).
- **userId** — Facebook user ID.
- **profileUrl** — Canonical profile URL (e.g. `https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=...`).
- **userData** — List of work/education entries: `{ "type": "work" | "education", "text": "...", "icon": "..." }`.

Example:

```json
{
  "name": "John Doe",
  "profileImage": "https://...",
  "coverImage": "https://...",
  "images": ["https://...", "..."],
  "userId": "123456789",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789",
  "userData": [
    { "type": "work", "text": "Company Name", "icon": "https://..." },
    { "type": "education", "text": "University Name", "icon": "https://..." }
  ]
}
```

### How to use (Apify Console)

1. Open [Apify Console](https://console.apify.com) → **Actors**.
2. Find **Facebook User Search Scraper** and open it.
3. Under **Input**, add **queries** (e.g. `Raisul Islam`) and set **maxItems** (e.g. 10, 100, 200). Optionally add **startUrls**.
4. Click **Start**. The actor will search Google (SERP proxy), collect Facebook URLs, then scrape each profile.
5. Watch **Log** for Google SERP and Facebook proxy messages.
6. Open **Output** (dataset) to view or export results (JSON/CSV).

### Cautions

- Data is collected only from **public** profile pages.
- You are responsible for compliance with Facebook’s terms, privacy laws, and local regulations.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

📝 Enter one or more search words (e.g. a name). Each query is used to find Facebook profiles.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

🎚️ Maximum number of Facebook profiles to scrape in this run (1–5000).

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

➕ Paste Facebook profile URLs here to scrape in addition to query results. Leave empty to use only search results.

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

🔒 Search uses a dedicated proxy. For Facebook requests: no proxy by default; auto fallback to datacenter → residential if blocked.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "mark"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/markzuckerberg"
  ]
}
```

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "mark"
    ],
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/markzuckerberg"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapio/facebook-user-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 = {
    "queries": ["mark"],
    "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/markzuckerberg"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapio/facebook-user-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 '{
  "queries": [
    "mark"
  ],
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/markzuckerberg"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapio/facebook-user-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Facebook User Search Scraper",
        "description": "🔎 Facebook User Search Scraper (Facebook-User-Search-Scraper) extracts public user data from Facebook search results — names, profile URLs, locations, workplaces & education. 📊 Ideal for lead gen, OSINT, recruiting & market research. ✅ Fast, reliable, compliant. 🚀",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "ZcKTG8CxWqaJChLAi"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/scrapio~facebook-user-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-scrapio-facebook-user-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": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/scrapio~facebook-user-search-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-scrapio-facebook-user-search-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/scrapio~facebook-user-search-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-scrapio-facebook-user-search-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": {
                    "queries": {
                        "title": "🔤 Search queries",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "📝 Enter one or more search words (e.g. a name). Each query is used to find Facebook profiles.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "📊 Max profiles per query",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 5000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "🎚️ Maximum number of Facebook profiles to scrape in this run (1–5000).",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "startUrls": {
                        "title": "Profile URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "➕ Paste Facebook profile URLs here to scrape in addition to query results. Leave empty to use only search results.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "🔒 Search uses a dedicated proxy. For Facebook requests: no proxy by default; auto fallback to datacenter → residential if blocked."
                    }
                }
            },
            "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
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```