Facebook Post Info

Extract basic metadata from public Facebook URLs that represent a single piece of content, including standard posts, photos, reels, videos, and publicly accessible stories.

This Actor is designed for quick per-URL extraction. It opens only the supplied page, reads visible page content and page metadata, and returns one dataset item per input URL.

What it extracts

• Post title
• Post creation date
• Number of likes, if visible on the loaded page
• Number of comments, if visible on the loaded page
• Author name
• Author URL

Supported URL types

• Facebook posts
• Facebook photos / images
• Facebook reels
• Facebook videos
• Facebook stories, when publicly accessible without login

Input

{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/username/posts/123456789012345",
    "https://www.facebook.com/reel/123456789012345"
  ],
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 90
}

Output

Each input URL produces one result item like this:

{
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/123456789012345",
  "resolvedUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/123456789012345",
  "postType": "reel",
  "title": "Example title",
  "createdAt": "2025-12-01T09:15:00.000Z",
  "likesCount": 124,
  "commentsCount": 18,
  "authorName": "Example Author",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/example.author",
  "DeletedPost": false,
  "isPublicAccessible": true,
  "extractionNotes": []
}

Behavior and limitations

• The Actor does not crawl beyond the supplied post URL.
• The Actor does not open secondary views just to compute likes or comments.
• If the page does not visibly show likes or comments, the Actor returns -1 for that field.
• If Facebook shows a login wall or "content isn't available" screen, the Actor returns null or -1 where appropriate, marks isPublicAccessible as false, and sets DeletedPost to true when one of Facebook's deleted or unavailable messages is visible on the page.
• Facebook changes its public page structure frequently, so some edge cases may need future selector updates.

Pay-per-event monetization

This Actor supports Apify pay-per-event monetization with these custom event names:

• facebook-no-data: the URL was processed but no meaningful data was extracted
• facebook-partial-data: some meaningful fields were extracted, but not all core fields were present
• facebook-full-data: all core fields were extracted

Recommended Apify Console setup:

• Enable synthetic event apify-actor-start to cover startup cost
• Disable synthetic event apify-default-dataset-item to avoid double charging for dataset output
• Add prices for facebook-no-data, facebook-partial-data, and facebook-full-data

The Actor checks the remaining chargeable budget and stops processing new URLs when the run reaches the user's maximum total charge.

Local development

Install dependencies:

$npm install

Install the Playwright browser for local runs:

$npx playwright install chromium

Create local input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json and run:

$npm start

Apify-ready project files

• .actor/actor.json contains Actor metadata used during deployment.
• .actor/input_schema.json defines the Apify input UI and input validation.
• .actor/dataset_schema.json documents the dataset output fields in Console.
• CHANGELOG.md provides release notes for published versions.
• README.md becomes the Actor README shown in Apify Console and Store.

Recommended Store description

Short description:

Extract title, date, likes, comments, and author details from public Facebook post URLs.

Suggested categories:

• Social media
• Web scraping
• Data extraction