Facebook Posts Scraper - Pages, Profiles & Timelines

This Facebook Posts Scraper extracts public posts from any Facebook profile or Page: text, date, link, reactions, comments and shares counts, photos and videos with their alt text, shared posts and links. Choose the newest 20 posts or a whole timeline going back years, keep only posts newer than a date, and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel. No Facebook account, no login, no cookies. It costs $0.75 per 1,000 posts.

What does Facebook Posts Scraper do?

Facebook Posts Scraper reads a profile's or Page's public timeline the way a logged-out visitor sees it and turns every post into a clean row of data:

• 📰 Any public profile or Page: brands, media, public figures, creators, organisations, local businesses.
• ⏪ Full timelines: the newest posts, a set number, or every post the timeline lists (maxPostsPerProfile: 0).
• 📅 Date filter: keep only posts newer than a date (2026-01-31, 31/01/2026, Jan 31 2026) or an age (7 days, 2w, 3 months, yesterday); reading stops once the timeline goes past it.
• 📊 Engagement: reactions, comments and shares counts on every post.
• 🖼️ Media: photos and videos with their links, image URLs and Facebook's own alt text.
• 💸 Pay only for posts saved: private, empty or missing profiles cost nothing, and the run stops cleanly at the spending limit you set.

Because it runs on the Apify platform, you also get the API, scheduling, integrations, monitoring and proxy rotation without writing any code.

What data can you extract from Facebook posts?

Field	Example	What it is
text	Nice shades. 😎 This structure, called a sunshade…	The post's text (null for a photo or video without a caption)
createdAt, timestamp	2026-11-06T18:55:18.000Z, 1793991318	When the post was published (ISO 8601 and Unix seconds)
url, postId	https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/…	The post's link and numeric ID
reactionsCount	710	All reactions: Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry, Care
commentsCount, sharesCount	39, 53	Comments and shares
media	[{ "type": "photo", … }]	Photos and videos: type, link, image or thumbnail URL, alt text
sharedPost	{ "text": …, "url": …, "authorName": … }	The original post, when this post is a share
linkTitle	<title of the shared article>	The title of a shared link
authorId, authorName, authorUrl, authorPictureUrl	NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Who wrote the post
profileId, inputUrl, scrapedAt	100044561550831	The timeline the post is on, the entry you gave, and when it was read

Every item has every field. Anything a post doesn't have comes back as null (or [] for media), so your spreadsheet columns stay the same from run to run.

How to scrape Facebook posts

1. Click Try for free (or Start) on this page.
2. In Facebook profiles and Pages, paste links such as https://www.facebook.com/NASA, numeric IDs or usernames, one per line.
3. Set Max posts per profile (for example 100, or 0 for every post) and, if you like, Only posts newer than (for example 3 months).
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish. A profile's newest 20 posts take a few seconds.
5. Download the posts from the Output tab as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

How much does it cost to scrape Facebook posts?

$0.75 per 1,000 posts, platform usage and proxies included. You pay one post event for each post saved, nothing else:

Your Apify plan	Price per 1,000 posts
Free and Starter (Bronze)	$0.75
Scale (Silver)	$0.675 (−10%)
Business (Gold)	$0.60 (−20%)

Two examples:

• The latest 20 posts of 100 brand Pages = 2,000 posts = $1.50.
• A Page's whole timeline of 5,000 posts = $3.75.

Profiles and Pages that don't exist, are private or have no public posts are not charged; the run log lists them. To cap a run's cost, set Maximum cost per run in the run options: the scraper saves posts until the next one would go over it, then stops cleanly and keeps everything saved. Apify's free plan comes with monthly usage credit, enough to try this scraper on thousands of posts.

Input example

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/NASA", "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100044561550831"],
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 100,
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "3 months",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array of strings	Profiles and Pages: https://www.facebook.com/<username>, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=<ID>, https://www.facebook.com/people/<name>/<ID>/, mobile links, numeric IDs or usernames. Share links from the Facebook app (https://www.facebook.com/share/…, fb.me/…) work too; a link to a post reads its author's posts. Duplicates are read once.
maxPostsPerProfile	integer, 0 or more	Most recent posts to save per profile, newest first. Default 20. 0 = every post the timeline lists.
onlyPostsNewerThan	string	Only posts published on or after this date (2026-01-31, 2026-1-31, 31/01/2026, Jan 31 2026), date-time (2026-01-31T18:00:00Z) or age (7 days, 2w, 3 months, 1 year, yesterday). Dates are UTC days; with both day and month 12 or less (01/02/2026) the date is read month/day/year. Empty = no date limit.
proxyConfiguration	object	Keep the default: Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group.

Output example

A real post from NASA's Page (text and image link shortened):

{
  "postId": "1679274853567884",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0i5jtfWbHAByDj1XDZ3R9XWEwLM97sDCDJAvCakqEf3pvwkqwnLw3jQMKRaNMXRw1l",
  "text": "Nice shades. 😎\n\nThis structure, called a sunshade, will fly on our NEO (Near-Earth Object) Surveyor, a spacecraft that will scout out nearby asteroids and comets…",
  "createdAt": "2026-11-06T18:55:18.000Z",
  "timestamp": 1793991318,
  "reactionsCount": 710,
  "commentsCount": 39,
  "sharesCount": 53,
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "photo",
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1679274836901219&set=a.416661013162614",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/…/892374373_1104277122356398_3961455661216587791_n.png",
      "altText": "Two strips of inky black solar arrays cross diagonally over the scene. In the background is a stark white clean room…"
    }
  ],
  "sharedPost": null,
  "linkTitle": null,
  "authorId": "100044561550831",
  "authorName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
  "authorPictureUrl": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/…/243095782_416661036495945_3843362260429099279_n.png",
  "profileId": "100044561550831",
  "inputUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-08T10:53:46.172Z"
}

Use cases

• Social media monitoring: follow what brands, public figures and creators post, and how people react.
• Competitor analysis: compare posting frequency, formats (photo, video, link, text) and engagement across Pages.
• Content research: find the posts that got the most reactions and shares on any topic's leading Pages.
• Brand and media monitoring: collect public posts about launches, campaigns or events from the accounts that matter to you.
• Research datasets: build multi-year timelines of public posts for academic or market research, with stable fields and timestamps.
• Influencer vetting: check how active a creator is and what their posts get before you work with them.

Use Facebook Posts Scraper via API, Python, JavaScript and integrations

Run the scraper from your own code with the Apify API or an Apify client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY-APIFY-TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('socialscrapers/facebook-profile-posts-scraper').call({
    startUrls: ['https://www.facebook.com/NASA'],
    maxPostsPerProfile: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("MY-APIFY-TOKEN")
run = client.actor("socialscrapers/facebook-profile-posts-scraper").call(
    run_input={"startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/NASA"], "maxPostsPerProfile": 100}
)
for post in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(post["createdAt"], post["reactionsCount"], post["text"])

• Schedules: collect new posts every day or week with an Apify schedule and onlyPostsNewerThan: "1 day" or "7 days".
• Integrations: send the posts to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable, Make, Zapier or n8n, or trigger your own webhook when a run finishes.
• AI agents: call the scraper as a tool through the Apify MCP server.

Limits

• Public data only, no login. The scraper sees what Facebook shows a logged-out visitor: posts shared only with friends, and private profiles, are not available.
• The pinned post is left out; posts come newest first. Facebook can list fewer posts than a profile has.
• Comment and reaction counts are included, not the comments themselves.
• Share links (https://www.facebook.com/share/…, fb.me/…, links to a post, reel or photo) are followed to the profile they name, at no charge. Links in the bare pfbid… format can't be read: use the profile's username, numeric ID or profile.php?id= link.
• Facebook image and video links expire after some days: download the media if you need to keep it.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Facebook posts?

This scraper only reads data that Facebook shows publicly to anyone who isn't logged in. Public data can still contain personal data, which laws such as the GDPR protect, so collect only what you need for a legitimate purpose and check the rules that apply to you. Apify explains the basics in Is web scraping legal?.

Do I need a Facebook account or cookies?

No. Facebook Posts Scraper never logs in and never asks for cookies, so no account of yours is ever at risk.

How many posts can I scrape from one Page?

As many as its timeline lists: set maxPostsPerProfile to 0. Big Pages go back years. The first 20 posts arrive in one request and older posts in pages of 3, so whole timelines take longer than recent posts.

Why did a profile return fewer posts than I asked for?

The timeline has fewer public posts, the date in onlyPostsNewerThan was reached, or the run hit its maximum cost. The run log says which for every profile, and how far back it went.

Why did my run finish with no posts?

Facebook showed nothing public for that profile: it is private, shows its posts only to logged-in visitors, has none, or no longer exists; or Facebook refused the requests even after 5 attempts on fresh IPs. The run still ends Succeeded, its status message says which, and nothing is charged. Only a run of 3 or more profiles that Facebook refused entirely ends Failed, because that means the scraper itself is being blocked.

Can I paste a link from the Facebook app's Share button?

Yes. Share links such as https://www.facebook.com/share/1AbCdEfGh/ and fb.me/… links are followed to the profile or Page they open, without logging in and without charge. A share link to a single post reads the posts of that post's author.

How do I get only new posts?

Set Only posts newer than to an age such as 1 day and run the scraper on a daily schedule.

Does it work for Facebook Pages and personal profiles?

Yes. Pages and public personal profiles take the same input and give the same fields.

Which proxy should I use?

The default, Apify Proxy RESIDENTIAL. Facebook doesn't show public posts to visitors from datacenter IPs.

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