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.
v0.3.17 - 2026-11-04
Changed
All 44 dataset fields now carry agent-facing descriptions in dataset_schema.json; runtime code unchanged.
Build 0.3.17 smoke run rVKYiPqOAaxzeKsU4 succeeded with two rows.
v0.3.16 - 2026-10-27
Fixed
Hardened relative date parsing, including bounded overflow handling and UTC interpretation for offsetless ISO timestamps.
Rejected numeric and zero-valued relative date boundaries instead of silently producing invalid windows.
Guarded Actor status-message updates so diagnostics cannot fail an otherwise valid collection.
Added an early run status message before feed collection starts.
Verification
Local syntax check passed; 35 of 35 tests passed.
Apify build 0.3.16 succeeded; smoke run SQVknSPUTNseGSWx4 returned two posts.
v0.3.3-beta.0 - 2026-07-15
Added
Added onlyPostsNewerThan as the explicit inclusive lower Facebook timestamp boundary.
Added onlyPostsOlderThan as the exclusive upper boundary for bounded date-range collection.
Added validation for conflicting aliases and empty or reversed date intervals.
Compatibility
Kept sinceDate as a backward-compatible API alias for onlyPostsNewerThan.
v0.3.2-beta.1 - 2026-07-14
Documentation
Rebuilt the Store README around quick start, all-photo differentiation, measured validation, run recipes, pricing, troubleshooting, and clear public-only boundaries.
Expanded AI-agent selection and post-run validation guidance.
Published the measured 2,200-post release validation summary without internal cost data.
Changed
Refined Actor and input-schema descriptions for latest-post monitoring, historical backfills, hidden +N photo recovery, and agent discovery.
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.
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