Scrape public Facebook group posts with all recoverable photo URLs, including hidden +N grids. Get text, timestamps, authors, engagement, stable post URLs, and agent-ready JSON for Apify API, MCP, monitoring, and research workflows.
All notable changes to this project are documented here.
v0.3.2-beta.0 - 2026-06-28
Changed
Suppressed the generic "Returned fewer posts than requested" warning for healthy boundary completions such as complete_until_known_post and complete_until_since_date.
v0.3.1-beta.0 - 2026-06-27
Changed
Added explicit blocked_login_wall run diagnostics when Facebook returns a temporary login wall during public group bootstrap.
Added bootstrapFailureReason and nested bootstrap.failureReason / bootstrap.loginWallDetected fields to SUMMARY.
Added bootstrap_failure_reason to SUMMARY.outputCheckpoint for downstream pipelines.
Added per-group bootstrapFailureReason to compact multi-group summaries.
Documentation
Documented login-wall retry handling for humans, API clients, and AI agents.
Expanded output schema notes with coverageStatus meanings.
v0.3.0-beta.0 - 2026-06-24
Initial public beta release.
Added
Public Apify Actor package for scraping public Facebook group posts.
One dataset row per Facebook group post.
Public group URL input with numeric and vanity group support.
CHRONOLOGICAL, RECENT_ACTIVITY, and TOP_POSTS feed sort modes.
Cursor-page mode for monitoring and historical backfills.
Stable post IDs and permalinks when Facebook exposes them.
Post creation timestamps when Facebook exposes them.
Author ID, name, and profile URL when available.
Engagement counters when available.
Normal post text and nested/attached-story text extraction.
Feed preview photo extraction.
Hidden +N photo-grid recovery attempts through media-set expansion.
Deferred retry path for suspicious media rows.
Media quality flags: media_review_severity, media_plus_n_risk, media_completeness.
SUMMARY.pointer.nextCursor for older-post continuation.
Agent-oriented docs, examples, and output schema.
GitHub Actions CI with syntax checks and parser tests.
Boundaries
Public Facebook groups only.
No private or login-only group access.
No expanded comments.
No video download or transcript guarantee.
Photo URLs are returned; image binaries are not downloaded into Apify storage.
