Facebook Posts Scraper: Pages, Comments & Contacts

Facebook Posts Scraper gets the posts of public Facebook pages: text, publish time, total reactions and reactions by type, comment, share, view and play counts, images with their descriptions, videos with download links, link previews and the original of shared posts. It also saves one row of page details per page (followers, category, intro, the email, phone, website and address the page shows, rating, creation date and whether the page runs ads) and, when you ask, the comments shown under each post.

Use it to track brands, competitors and news pages, measure engagement, collect leads from page contact details, or feed posts to an analytics or AI tool. No Facebook account, cookies or API token are needed, and a monitoring mode saves only the posts that are new since your last run.

Why use this Facebook Posts Scraper?

• Pages and posts in one run. Give page links or usernames and get each page's details plus its newest posts, or give post links to read single posts, photos, videos and reels.
• Newest first, as far back as you want. Posts come in the page's own order, newest first, through the page's timeline: set a maximum per page or a date (only posts after 2026-10-01, or from the last 7 days).
• Engagement you can sort on. Reactions total and by type (like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry, care), comments, shares, video views and plays, as exact numbers rather than "1.2K".
• Media. Image links with width, height and Facebook's description of each image; video page link, HD and SD video files, thumbnail and duration; link previews with title, domain and image.
• Page details buyers ask for. Followers, following, talking about, check-ins, category, intro, public email, phone, websites and address, opening hours, rating, other accounts (Instagram, TikTok), the confirmed owner, creation date, ad status and verified badge.
• Comments on request. The most relevant comments Facebook shows under each post, with author, time, reactions and reply count.
• Monitoring. Turn on "Only new posts" and schedule the run: it stops reading each page at the first post an earlier run saved. Each page it reads costs a $0.001 page check, and only new posts cost the post price.
• Fair price. Pay per row saved, from $1.50 per 1,000 posts. Pages Facebook does not show (missing, removed or age restricted) come back as free rows with a status, so you see what happened to every link.

What data do you get?

Every row has a type: page, post or comment.

Post field	Example	Notes
postId, url	1628615059302480	The post and its link
text, time	In 2025, 247 pupils...	Post text and publish time (ISO, UTC)
reactionsCount, reactionsByType	189, like 102, wow 49	Totals as exact numbers
commentsCount, sharesCount	12, 7
viewsCount, playsCount	89255, 156905	Videos and reels; plays are what video pages show as views
images, videos		Media links, image sizes and descriptions, video files and thumbnails
link	bbc.in	Link preview: url, title, domain, image
isShared, sharedPost	true, NASA Artemis	The original of a shared post
authorName, authorId, authorUrl	BBC News	The page that posted

Page field	Example	Notes
name, username, url, pageId, profileId	BBC News, bbcnews	pageId is the id the Meta Ad Library uses
category, intro	Media/news company
followers, following, talkingAbout, checkins, likes	62050649	Exact follower counts
email, phone, website, websites, address	yourvoice@bbc.co.uk	Only what the page shows publicly
businessHours, priceRange, rating, ratingPercent, ratingCount	96% recommend (22 reviews)	Local businesses
otherAccounts, responsibleParty	tiktok.com/@itsdoughguy	Linked accounts, confirmed owner
creationDate, runningAds, verified	2009-12-24, true, true	From the page's transparency box
profilePicture, coverPhoto		Image links

Comment field	Example	Notes
commentId, postId, postUrl		The comment and its post
text, time	Wonder who manufactured...
authorName, authorUrl		authorUrl only where Facebook shows it to logged-out visitors
reactionsCount, repliesCount, isReply	1, 0, false

Page and post rows also carry status (ok, unavailable or failed) and statusMessage; every row carries the input it came from and scrapedAt.

How to scrape Facebook posts

1. Add Facebook pages: links like facebook.com/nasa or facebook.com/profile.php?id=..., or usernames such as nasa. Add Post links for single posts.
2. Set Maximum posts per page (20 by default) and, if you like, Only posts newer than a date or a period such as 7 days.
3. Turn on Include comments if you need them. Page details are on by default.
4. Press Start. A page with 20 posts takes about 20 seconds, and 300 posts from five pages about a minute and a half.
5. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API. The Output tab has Posts, Pages and Comments views with the columns of each kind of row; filter on type to keep one kind.

How much does it cost?

You pay per row saved, and Apify bills it with your usage:

Apify plan	Per 1,000 posts	Per 1,000 pages	Per 1,000 comments
Free	$2.50	$4.00	$1.00
Starter	$2.00	$4.00	$1.00
Scale	$1.75	$4.00	$1.00
Business	$1.50	$4.00	$1.00

So 1,000 posts cost $2.50 on the Free plan and $1.50 on Business. Each run also has a start fee of $0.002. One page with its details and 20 posts costs 1 × $0.004 + 20 × $0.0025 + $0.002 = $0.056 on Free; adding the comments of those 20 posts (about 10 each) adds about $0.20. Free rows for pages and posts Facebook does not show cost nothing. You can set a maximum cost per run in the run options: the scraper stops at that amount and never charges past it.

With Only new posts on, each page a run reads costs a page check of $0.001 on every plan, whether or not it has new posts, and its new posts cost the post price. In our test, a monitor of BBC News and ESPN saved their 20 newest posts on its first run for 2 × $0.001 + 20 × $0.0025 + $0.002 = $0.054; the second run, a few minutes later, found nothing new and cost 2 × $0.001 + $0.002 = $0.004. Run daily on 10 pages that post 5 times a day, a monitor costs 10 × $0.001 + 50 × $0.0025 + $0.002 = $0.137 a day on Free, about $4.10 a month. With page details off, later runs read each page's timeline directly instead of loading the page: the second test run took 1.8 seconds.

Input

A page's details and its 20 newest posts:

{
    "pageUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/nasa"],
    "maxPostsPerPage": 20
}

Posts of the last 7 days from several pages, with comments, and no page rows:

{
    "pageUrls": ["bbcnews", "https://www.facebook.com/nytimes"],
    "maxPostsPerPage": 200,
    "newerThan": "7 days",
    "includeComments": true,
    "includePageDetails": false
}

A daily monitor (schedule it; read at least as many posts as the pages publish between runs):

{
    "pageUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/espn", "https://www.facebook.com/natgeo"],
    "maxPostsPerPage": 50,
    "onlyNewPosts": true,
    "includePageDetails": false,
    "monitorName": "sports-and-nature-daily"
}

Page details only, for a lead list:

{
    "pageUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/Smithsonian", "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576187677552"],
    "maxPostsPerPage": 0
}

Single posts and reels, with their comments:

{
    "postUrls": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/posts/pfbid02fTGccnAvDdYCydKGLjrmHkX4FjB9DwTJxWbzrMNQ4UZb7wqye7eEanBLL7roqmJyl",
        "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1557618349384047/"
    ],
    "includeComments": true
}

Output

Real rows, trimmed: media links are shortened and the commenter's name is left out here.

[
    {
        "type": "page",
        "status": "ok",
        "statusMessage": null,
        "pageId": "228735667216",
        "profileId": "100064620046507",
        "name": "BBC News",
        "username": "bbcnews",
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews",
        "category": "Media/news company",
        "followers": 62050649,
        "following": 49,
        "talkingAbout": 1033833,
        "checkins": 9294,
        "likes": null,
        "intro": "BBC News is recognised by audiences around the world as a provider of news that you can trust.",
        "email": "yourvoice@bbc.co.uk",
        "phone": null,
        "website": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news",
        "websites": ["https://www.bbc.co.uk/news"],
        "address": "BBC Broadcasting House, London, United Kingdom",
        "businessHours": "Always open",
        "priceRange": null,
        "rating": null,
        "ratingPercent": null,
        "ratingCount": null,
        "otherAccounts": [],
        "responsibleParty": "British Broadcasting Corporation",
        "creationDate": "2009-12-24",
        "runningAds": true,
        "verified": true,
        "profilePicture": "https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/.../278817116_365983165565682_365395538073123556_n.jpg",
        "coverPhoto": "https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/.../307744525_483795437117787_2281003730682989977_n.png",
        "input": "https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T07:39:51.923Z"
    },
    {
        "type": "post",
        "status": "ok",
        "statusMessage": null,
        "postId": "1628615059302480",
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/posts/pfbid02zL6ooHkTHG43p5F8kM4soRTeJLUDyLUX1CkagVYvWz45LMQTv19aFDcoR9GL7JKzl",
        "text": "In 2025, 247 pupils and staff at the nursery were found to have abnormally high blood lead levels after children began falling ill.",
        "time": "2026-10-18T06:00:06.000Z",
        "reactionsCount": 189,
        "reactionsByType": { "like": 102, "wow": 49, "sad": 27, "angry": 8, "care": 2, "haha": 1 },
        "commentsCount": 12,
        "sharesCount": 7,
        "viewsCount": null,
        "playsCount": null,
        "images": [],
        "videos": [],
        "link": {
            "url": "https://bbc.in/4yUvX0S",
            "title": "Nursery owner in China jailed for life after hundreds of children poisoned",
            "domain": "bbc.in",
            "imageUrl": "https://external-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/.../129512743667171995"
        },
        "isShared": false,
        "sharedPost": null,
        "authorName": "BBC News",
        "authorId": "100064620046507",
        "authorUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews",
        "input": "https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T07:39:52.222Z"
    },
    {
        "type": "post",
        "postId": "1518998673415924",
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1453450343598426/",
        "text": "Toru Utsumi works as a management consultant in Japan, but on his days off, he has become a global internet star...",
        "time": "2026-10-18T02:41:49.000Z",
        "reactionsCount": 2465,
        "reactionsByType": { "like": 1877, "love": 531, "care": 20, "haha": 20, "wow": 17 },
        "commentsCount": 58,
        "sharesCount": 197,
        "viewsCount": 89255,
        "playsCount": 156905,
        "videos": [
            {
                "id": "1453450343598426",
                "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1453450343598426/",
                "thumbnailUrl": "https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/.../852160952_1449608823815647_7528145808844329940_n.jpg",
                "durationSeconds": 78.9
            }
        ],
        "authorName": "The New York Times",
        "input": "https://www.facebook.com/nytimes"
    },
    {
        "type": "comment",
        "commentId": "1855583208952951",
        "postId": "1628615059302480",
        "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/posts/pfbid02zL6ooHkTHG43p5F8kM4soRTeJLUDyLUX1CkagVYvWz45LMQTv19aFDcoR9GL7JKzl",
        "text": "Wonder who manufactured and sold the paint.",
        "time": "2026-10-18T07:05:23.000Z",
        "reactionsCount": 1,
        "repliesCount": 0,
        "isReply": false,
        "input": "https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T07:39:54.723Z"
    }
]

A SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store lists each input with its status, the posts and comments saved and any error.

Tips

• Posts arrive newest first. With Only posts newer than, reading a page stops at its first older posts, which keeps long-history pages cheap.
• For a monitor, set Maximum posts per page above the number of posts a page publishes between two runs; a run stops at the first post saved before.
• Facebook shows logged-out visitors the most relevant comments of a post, usually about 10, and about 2 on video and reel pages. Comment rows hold those; ask for fewer with Maximum comments per post.
• Video and image links are signed by Facebook and stop working after some days: download the files you need soon after the run.
• followers is exact for pages; Facebook's own page header rounds it (62M).
• Usernames work as input: nasa is the same as https://www.facebook.com/nasa.

Integrations

• API: start runs and read results over the Apify API; the API tab shows ready code.
• Python: pip install apify-client, then

  from apify_client import ApifyClient
  client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
  run = client.actor("stratumics/facebook-posts-scraper").call(run_input={"pageUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/nasa"], "maxPostsPerPage": 50})
  for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
      if item["type"] == "post":
          print(item["time"], item["reactionsCount"], item["text"])
  

• JavaScript: npm install apify-client, then

  import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
  const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
  const run = await client
      .actor('stratumics/facebook-posts-scraper')
      .call({ pageUrls: ['bbcnews'], newerThan: '3 days', maxPostsPerPage: 500 });
  const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
  

• Zapier, Make, n8n: use the Apify app or node to send new posts to Slack, Google Sheets, Airtable or your CRM.
• AI agents: connect your agent to this scraper through the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com), so it can read any public page's latest posts on demand.
• Webhooks and schedules: run it hourly or daily with "Only new posts" on and get a webhook when new posts appear.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Facebook posts?

Our Actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our Actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe. However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

Which personal data can the results hold?

Comment rows hold commenters' names and, where Facebook shows them to logged-out visitors, links to their profiles. Comments are off by default; turn them on only when you need them. Page rows hold the contact details a page publishes on its own page, such as a business email or phone.

Do I need a Facebook account?

No. The scraper reads Facebook as a logged-out visitor, like anyone opening a public page in a private browser window. It never logs in.

Can it scrape Facebook groups or private profiles?

No. Facebook asks logged-out visitors to log in before showing groups, and private profiles are not public. Group links are listed as skipped in the log.

Why is a page row "unavailable"?

Facebook shows logged-out visitors no page at that link: it does not exist, was removed, or is limited to some ages or countries (alcohol brands, for example). Such rows are free. A failed row means Facebook kept refusing the link; run it again later.

Why do some posts have no views or shares?

Views and plays exist only for video posts. Video and reel pages do not show share counts to logged-out visitors, so a reel read from a post link can lack sharesCount; reels read from a page's timeline have it.

Why did a page stop before the maximum?

The page has no more posts, they are older than your date limit, or Facebook stopped answering its timeline at some point. In the last case the page keeps the posts read so far, the run goes on with the next page, and the SUMMARY record says where it stopped.

How fresh are the counts?

They are read at run time. In our checks against the live site a few minutes later, counts matched or had grown by a few percent on new posts.

Do I need a proxy?

No setup needed. Facebook refuses its timeline from datacenter addresses, so the scraper loads pages over Apify datacenter proxy (and residential proxy when Facebook shows the login page) and the timeline over Apify residential proxy. Both are included in the price. If you pick your own proxy instead and it has only datacenter addresses, expect just each page's newest post.

Where can I report a problem?

Open an issue on the Issues tab with your run link and we will look at it.

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