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Facebook Posts & Reels Scraper

Scrapes public Facebook posts, reels, photos, and videos for reactions, comments, shares, view count, caption, author, and thumbnail. Parallel Playwright workers, retries, cookie support, MCP-ready.

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You can access the Facebook Posts & Reels 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.

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Facebook Posts & Reels Scraper OpenAPI definition

OpenAPI is a standard for designing and describing RESTful APIs, allowing developers to define API structure, endpoints, and data formats in a machine-readable way. It simplifies API development, integration, and documentation.

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You can download the OpenAPI definitions for Facebook Posts & Reels Scraper from the options below:

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Facebook Posts & Reels Scraper

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