Facebook Post Scraper | Facebook Page, Group, Profile and Comment Scraper for Apify

This Facebook scraper for Apify helps you extract the latest public Facebook posts from Facebook pages, groups, and profiles. It can also enrich posts with comment samples, engagement metrics, profile details, media URLs, and outbound links.

If you are looking for a Facebook post scraper, Facebook page scraper, Facebook group scraper, Facebook profile scraper, or a best-effort Facebook comment scraper, this Actor is built for that workflow.

What this Facebook scraper extracts

For each post, the Actor can collect:

• Post author or page name
• Post timestamp or publish date
• Post text content
• Post permalink URL
• Post ID for downstream workflows
• Likes, shares, and visible comment counts
• Profile or page details when available
• Media URLs and external links
• Best-effort comment samples from the post permalink

Supported Facebook targets

You can scrape:

• Public Facebook pages
• Public Facebook groups
• Public Facebook profiles
• A list of Facebook URLs, page names, or group names in one run

Why use this Apify Facebook scraper

• Built as a production-ready Apify Actor
• Scrapes public Facebook content with a primary and fallback extraction flow
• Supports fast post collection and optional deep enrichment
• Can emit comments as separate dataset items for downstream analysis
• Stores clean structured output in the Apify dataset for API, JSON, CSV, Excel, webhooks, and integrations

Best use cases

• Social media monitoring
• Brand and competitor tracking
• News and media monitoring from Facebook pages
• Community research from Facebook groups
• Lead generation and market research
• Building datasets for dashboards, analytics, and AI pipelines

How it works

The Actor uses a layered scraping strategy to improve reliability on Facebook:

1. scrapling tries to fetch and parse posts quickly.
2. If Facebook blocks or weakens that response, the Actor falls back to pydoll.
3. In deep enrichment mode, the Actor can open post permalinks and recover best-effort comment samples with browser automation.

This design helps balance speed, cost, and coverage.

Input

• targets (array): Facebook URL, page name, or group name
• startUrls (array): one or more public Facebook URLs
• maxPosts (integer): maximum number of posts to return per URL (1-200)
• maxScrollRounds (integer): optional scroll-depth override (0-40, 0 means auto)
• performanceMode (string): fast, balanced, or maxCoverage
• enrichmentMode (string): none, basic, or deep
• maxEnrichedPosts (integer): maximum posts per URL to enrich (0-200)
• maxCommentsPerPost (integer): maximum recovered comment samples per post in deep mode (0-200)
• maxCommentExpansionRounds (integer): maximum browser expand and scroll rounds for loading more comments and replies (1-20)
• includeReplies (boolean): include visible replies during deep comment extraction
• emitCommentItems (boolean): emit comments as separate dataset items
• failOnCommentBlock (boolean): fail the run if comment extraction is blocked and comments are required
• facebookCookieHeader (string, optional): logged-in Facebook cookie header for better coverage
• proxyConfiguration (object, optional): Apify Proxy or custom proxy settings

Output

The dataset can include both post items and comment items.

Common post fields:

• itemType
• sourceUrl
• postAuthor
• postTimestamp
• postText
• postUrl
• postId
• postOwnerId
• likes
• shares
• commentCount
• likesCount
• sharesCount
• commentCountValue
• profileName
• profileUrl
• profileUsername
• profileId
• profileImageUrl
• profileFollowers
• profileFollowersCount
• targetType
• targetTitle
• targetDescription
• targetImageUrl
• targetFollowers
• targetFollowersCount
• targetUrl
• enrichmentMode
• commentExtractionStatus
• commentExtractionMethod
• isEnriched
• externalUrls
• mediaUrls
• mediaCount
• commentSamples
• commentSamplesCount
• scrapedWith
• scrapedAt

Comment item fields:

• itemType
• parentPostId
• parentPostUrl
• commentText
• commentAuthor
• commentAuthorUrl
• commentTimestamp
• commentId
• commentUrl
• commentSampleIndex

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA" }],
  "targets": ["bbcnews"],
  "maxPosts": 20,
  "performanceMode": "balanced",
  "enrichmentMode": "deep",
  "maxEnrichedPosts": 10,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 25,
  "maxCommentExpansionRounds": 8,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "emitCommentItems": true,
  "failOnCommentBlock": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Example output item

{
  "itemType": "post",
  "inputTarget": "NASA",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
  "postAuthor": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "postTimestamp": "2d",
  "postText": "Post text...",
  "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/...",
  "postId": "pfbid02abc...",
  "likes": "728",
  "shares": "42",
  "commentCount": "61",
  "likesCount": 728,
  "sharesCount": 42,
  "commentCountValue": 61,
  "profileName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
  "profileUsername": "NASA",
  "externalUrls": ["https://example.com"],
  "mediaUrls": ["https://..."],
  "mediaCount": 1,
  "commentSamplesCount": 10,
  "scrapedWith": "pydoll",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-09T10:40:00+00:00"
}

Important notes

• Base mode (enrichmentMode=none) scrapes posts only.
• Deep mode adds best-effort Facebook comment extraction from post permalinks.
• Facebook comments and engagement visibility can vary by page, region, proxy quality, and login state.
• Full comment-thread completeness is not guaranteed because Facebook uses login walls, privacy restrictions, and anti-bot protections.
• For stronger coverage, use residential proxies and provide facebookCookieHeader.

Deepest scrape configuration

If you want the deepest scrape this Actor can do in a single run, use:

• performanceMode: "maxCoverage" for the strongest post-recovery behavior
• enrichmentMode: "deep" for post permalink enrichment and comment recovery
• emitCommentItems: true to keep comments as separate dataset items
• includeReplies: true to include visible replies
• facebookCookieHeader plus residential proxies for better Facebook access

Example:

{
  "maxPosts": 20,
  "performanceMode": "maxCoverage",
  "enrichmentMode": "deep",
  "maxEnrichedPosts": 20,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 25,
  "maxCommentExpansionRounds": 8,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "emitCommentItems": true,
  "failOnCommentBlock": false,
  "facebookCookieHeader": "c_user=...; xs=...",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Recommended Apify settings

For stronger coverage on live Facebook pages:

{
  "maxPosts": 20,
  "performanceMode": "balanced",
  "enrichmentMode": "deep",
  "maxEnrichedPosts": 10,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 25,
  "maxCommentExpansionRounds": 8,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "emitCommentItems": true,
  "failOnCommentBlock": false,
  "facebookCookieHeader": "c_user=...; xs=...",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Summary

This Actor is designed for teams that need a practical Facebook data scraper on Apify: collect Facebook posts, enrich them with visible Facebook comments, and export the data for monitoring, analytics, automation, and downstream scraping workflows.