Pricing

$19.99/month + usage

Facebook Groups Scraper

Gather high-quality data from public Facebook groups—posts, comments, reactions, images, and contextual metadata. Designed for researchers, brands, and developers needing accurate, scalable group insights for analytics or automation.

Pricing

$19.99/month + usage

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SimpleAPI

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Monthly active users

16 days ago

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Automation

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Social media

You can access the Facebook Groups Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

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            "description": "🎭 **Choose Your Sorting Style** 🎭\n\nSelect how posts should be organized and displayed:\n\n📅 **Chronological** - Time-travel through posts (oldest → newest)\n\n🔥 **Recent Activity** - Catch the hottest, most active discussions\n\n⭐ **Top Posts** - Discover the most popular and engaging content\n\n🛒 **Chronological Listings** - Perfect for Buy/Sell groups\n\n⚠️ **Note:** Post limit applies to 'New posts' sorting only.",
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          "searchGroupYear": {
            "title": "📅 Year Filter",
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            "description": "⏰ **Set Your Time Boundary** ⏰\n\nStop scraping when posts are older than this date.\n\n📝 **Format Options:**\n• **Absolute:** YYYY-MM-DD (e.g., 2024-01-15)\n• **Relative:** Natural language (e.g., \"2 weeks\", \"7 days\", \"1 month\")\n\n💡 **Examples:**\n• \"2024-01-01\" - Posts from January 2024 onwards\n• \"30 days\" - Posts from the last month\n• \"1 year\" - Posts from the last year"
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            "title": "🍪 Facebook Cookie String",
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            "description": "📋 **How to get your cookies:**\n\n1. Log into Facebook in your browser\n2. Open DevTools → **Application** → **Cookies** → `https://www.facebook.com`\n3. Copy the cookie header (must include at least `c_user` and `xs`)\n\n📝 **Format:** `c_user=100000...; xs=12%3A...; datr=...; fr=...`\n\n⚠️ **Privacy:** Use a dedicated/secondary account. Cookies grant access to that account.\n\n💡 **Tip:** Leave empty to attempt logged-out (public-only) scraping via residential proxy."
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Facebook Groups Scraper OpenAPI definition

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