Facebook Group Post Extractor 🤖💾: Data, Details & Analytics
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Facebook Group Post Extractor 🤖💾: Data, Details & Analytics
Extract 50 posts/minute📈💾 from public Facebook Groups. Get posts, comments, timestamps, and engagement metrics with no cookies/login required! Outputs to JSON/CSV/Excel for instant analysis. Perfect for fast, detailed data collection & reporting. Data simplified.
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TheDoor
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Facebook Group Post Scraper
This Apify actor scrapes Facebook group posts using direct API calls without Puppeteer. It efficiently collects posts from multiple groups with
⚠️ Important: Understanding isNewPosts
isNewPosts: true- Fetches the newest/current posts in the groupisNewPosts: false- Fetches relative/older posts from the group
Example:
{"url": ["https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourgroup"],"maxPosts": 30,"isNewPosts": false}
Features
- Scrapes multiple Facebook groups in a single run
- Collects comprehensive post data including:
- Post text and media content
- Creation time (both timestamp and human-readable format)
- User information
- Engagement metrics (reactions, comments, shares)
- Group metadata
- Automatic group ID resolution for non-numeric group URLs
- Robust error handling with retry mechanisms
- Streaming data collection with real-time processing
- Supports proxy configuration
- Rate limiting and delays to avoid blocking
Input
The actor accepts the following input format:
{"url": ["https://www.facebook.com/groups/123456789","https://www.facebook.com/groups/groupname"],"maxPosts": 200, // Maximum number of posts to collect per group (default: 50)"isNewPosts": false // false = oldest first (stable), true = newest first (less stable)}
You can provide either a single group URL as a string or multiple URLs in an array.
Output
The actor outputs data to the Apify dataset in two formats:
- Post Data:
{"type": "post","post_type": "__post__", // or "__reel__" for reels"group_index": 1,"total_groups": 2,"post_url": "...","text": "...","user_name": "...","creation_time": "...", // Human readable GMT time"creation_timestamp": 1234567890,"reactions_count": 0,"post_id": "...","group_url": "...","group_id": "...","media": [...],"engagement": {"comments_count": 0,"reactions_count": 0,"shares_count": 0},"group": {"id": "...","name": "...","url": "..."},"actors": [...]}
- Group Info:
{"type": "group_info","group_index": 1,"total_groups": 2,"data": {"name": "...","id": "...","url": "...","input_url": "...","group_id": "..."}}
Required Files
source_payload_and_cookies.json: Contains request payloads and headerspayload.json: Additional payload configurations
Local Development
- Install dependencies:
$npm install
- Run the actor locally:
$apify run
Notes
- Keep your payload data up to date for optimal performance
- The actor uses a proxy by default for better reliability
- Rate limiting and delays are implemented to avoid blocking
- The actor processes groups sequentially to maintain stability