Facebook Search Scraper

by SilentFlow

Search Facebook the way a person would, and get the results back as clean, structured data. Type a keyword, pick what you want (posts, pages, places, events, people, videos or a mixed feed), and export every result with author, engagement counts, timestamps and links. No login, no manual copy and paste.

How it works

1. Enter a search query and choose a result type: posts, pages, places, events, people, videos or global.
2. Run the actor. It collects results page by page and returns them as a ready-to-use dataset you can export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

✨ Why teams choose this over other Facebook search scrapers

• 🔓 No login and no account required. Point it at a keyword and go. You never share a Facebook account or risk one, because results come from public search only.
• 🎯 Seven search types in one actor. Posts, pages, places, events, people, videos and a mixed global feed, all from the same simple input. No other Facebook search scraper covers this many.
• 📊 Real engagement, not just text. Every post comes with a full reactions breakdown (like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry, care) plus comment and share counts, so you can rank by what actually performs.
• 🔁 Built to keep working. The actor adapts automatically when Facebook changes things behind the scenes, so your runs keep returning data instead of breaking.
• ⚡ Fast and cheap. Results come back in seconds and you pay per result, never for idle compute time.
• 🧹 Clean, flat fields. Author, message, counts, timestamp and URL are ready for a spreadsheet or a database with zero cleanup.

🎯 What you can do with Facebook search data

Team	What they build
Lead generation	Prospect lists of pages and places around a topic or location, with links and names ready for outreach
Social listening	Track what people post about a brand, product or event and sort by reactions to find what resonates
Market research	Map the businesses and communities active around a keyword or in a specific city
PR and comms	Catch mentions early and measure how far a post spread using share and comment counts
Content teams	Find the highest-engagement posts on a topic to model new content on what already works
Recruiting and local ops	Discover local groups, pages and places relevant to a market before you expand into it

📥 Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
query	string	Yes	What to search for, for example a keyword, brand or topic
search_type	string	Yes	posts, pages, places, events, people, videos or global (mixed)
max_posts	integer	Yes	Maximum number of results to return
recent_posts	boolean	No	Sort posts by most recent instead of relevance
location	string	No	Focus the search on a place. For best results include city and country
start_date	string	No	Only posts on or after this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD
end_date	string	No	Only posts on or before this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD

📊 Output data

Post result

{
  "post_id": "3692084947600966",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/2308607455948729/permalink/3692084947600966/",
  "message": "I had the opportunity to stop by Fowl Retrievers recently and wanted to give them a shoutout...",
  "author": {
    "id": "100094594673792",
    "name": "Daddy Doo Care",
    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/people/Daddy-Doo-Care/100094594673792/",
    "profile_picture_url": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/..."
  },
  "timestamp": 1782401935,
  "reactions_count": 60,
  "comments_count": 13,
  "reshare_count": 19,
  "reactions": { "like": 49, "love": 10, "haha": 0, "wow": 0, "sad": 0, "angry": 0, "care": 1 },
  "type": "post",
  "image": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/...",
  "video": "https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4611732049098555",
  "video_thumbnail": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/...",
  "album_preview": ["https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/...", "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/..."],
  "external_url": "https://example.com/shared-link",
  "comments_id": "ZmVlZGJhY2s6MzY5MjA4NDk0NzYwMDk2Ng==",
  "shares_id": "ZmVlZGJhY2s6MzY5MjA4NDk0NzYwMDk2Ng==",
  "associated_group_id": "2308607455948729"
}

Page or place result

{
  "id": "100064826019420",
  "name": "Coffee Coffee",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/minthusunshine",
  "category": "Coffee shop",
  "description": "Freshly roasted, locally loved.",
  "verified": false,
  "profile_picture_url": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/...",
  "type": "page"
}

🗂️ Data fields

Group	Fields
Post	post_id, url, message, timestamp, type
Author	author.id, author.name, author.url, author.profile_picture_url
Engagement	reactions_count, comments_count, reshare_count, reactions (like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry, care)
Media and links	image, video, video_thumbnail, video_view_count, album_preview, external_url
Context and reshares	author_title (group or page the post appears in), message_rich (mentions, hashtags and links inside the text), attached_post (the original post when it is a share)
Follow-up IDs	comments_id, shares_id, associated_group_id
Page / place	id, name, url, category, description, verified, profile_picture_url, type

🚀 Examples

Find recent posts about a product

{ "query": "cold brew", "search_type": "posts", "max_posts": 50, "recent_posts": true }

Build a list of pages around a topic

{ "query": "specialty coffee", "search_type": "pages", "max_posts": 100 }

Find places in a city

{ "query": "coffee", "search_type": "places", "max_posts": 50, "location": "Austin, United States" }

Posts in a date range

{ "query": "product launch", "search_type": "posts", "max_posts": 40, "start_date": "2026-01-01", "end_date": "2026-03-31" }

Discover events by keyword

{ "query": "music festival", "search_type": "events", "max_posts": 50 }

💻 Integrations

Connect the results to the tools you already use with Apify integrations: Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, or your own app through the Apify API. Schedule runs to keep a topic or location continuously monitored, and push new results straight into your CRM or data warehouse.

📈 Performance

Results come back in seconds. Each run pages through the results until it reaches your max_posts limit, so cost and runtime scale with exactly how much data you ask for and nothing more.

💡 Tips for best results

• Use specific queries. "cold brew coffee austin" returns tighter results than "coffee".
• Turn on recent_posts when you care about what is happening now rather than all-time relevance.
• For broad category words in places and pages search (for example "restaurant", "bar", "dentist"), add a location. Facebook needs a place to search within for generic categories, so without a location they return nothing, while specific terms like "pizza" or "coffee" work on their own.
• Use global when you want a quick mixed snapshot, and a specific type when you want volume of one kind.
• Set max_posts to what you actually need. Smaller runs finish faster and cost less.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account or login? No. The actor only uses public search, so you never provide credentials.

Which search types are supported? Posts, pages, places, events, people, videos, and a mixed global feed.

Can I filter posts by date? Yes. Use start_date and end_date in YYYY-MM-DD format, and turn on recent_posts to sort by newest.

What engagement data do I get? For posts you get total reactions, a per-type reactions breakdown, comment count and share count.

In what formats can I export? JSON, CSV, and Excel, plus the Apify API for programmatic access.

📬 Support

Maintained by SilentFlow. Have a request or want another Facebook data type added? Let us know and we will consider it for a future update.