Facebook Events Scraper

Extract public Facebook events at scale, with the richest field set available: full descriptions, precise geo-coordinates, ticketing links, hosts, and exact going and interested counts. No Facebook account required.

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Why this scraper?

🔎 Four ways to find events

Search by keyword, list every event in a city, pull all events hosted by a page or organizer, or fetch full detail for specific event URLs. One actor covers all four.

📄 Complete event data

Event name, full description, date and time, duration, and the online-or-in-person flag. Detail mode returns every field Facebook publishes for an event.

📍 Precise location

Venue name, full address, city, and exact latitude and longitude, so events can be mapped or filtered by area.

🎟️ Ticketing and hosts

Ticket URL where the event sells tickets, the event creator, and every co-host with their page URL and type.

📊 Real engagement numbers

Exact going and interested counts, not rounded text. See which events draw a crowd.

💶 No account, no API key

Runs without a Facebook login. Datacenter proxy by default for speed and low cost, with residential available for high volume.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	"search"	What to scrape: search (by keyword), city (by city URL), page (by page or organizer), or detail (by event URL).
searchQueries	array	(empty)	Keywords to search, used when mode is search. Each keyword is searched separately.
cityUrls	array	(empty)	Facebook city event URLs, used when mode is city.
pageUrls	array	(empty)	Page or organizer URLs or usernames, used when mode is page. Accepts a full URL or a bare username.
eventUrls	array	(empty)	Specific event URLs to fetch full detail for, used when mode is detail.
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum number of events to return per run.
fetchDetails	boolean	true	For search, city and page modes: fetch the full detail record for each event. Uses one extra request per event. Turn off for a faster, cheaper list-only run.
dateFrom	string	(empty)	Optional. Only return events starting on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
dateTo	string	(empty)	Optional. Only return events starting on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
proxyConfiguration	object	Datacenter	Proxy settings. Defaults to Apify datacenter proxy. Switch to Residential if you hit blocks at high volume.

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Output schema

Two record shapes are returned. List modes (search, city, page) without enrichment return the core fields below. Detail mode, and any list run with fetchDetails on, returns the full record. Fields the source does not publish for a given event are returned as null rather than omitted.

Core fields (always present)

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Facebook event ID.
name	string	Event name.
url	string	Event URL.
event_kind	string	Facebook's event kind classifier.
type	string	Event type or node type.
day_time_sentence	string	Human-readable date and time, e.g. "Sat, Jul 4 at 4:00 PM EDT".
start_timestamp	integer	Event start as a Unix timestamp.
start_time	string	Event start as an ISO 8601 datetime.
is_past	boolean	Whether the event has already happened.
is_online	boolean	Whether the event is online.
is_happening_now	boolean	Whether the event is currently live.
location_name	string	Venue or place name.
place_id	string	Facebook place ID.
latitude	number	Venue latitude. Populated in detail mode.
longitude	number	Venue longitude. Populated in detail mode.
price_range_text	string	Price range text where the list feed publishes it.
interested_count	integer	Number of people interested.
going_count	integer	Number of people going.
social_context_text	string	Raw engagement text, e.g. "4K interested · 134 going".
cover_photo_url	string	Event cover photo URL.
scraped_at	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was scraped.

Additional fields (with fetchDetails or in detail mode)

Field	Type	Description
description	string	Full event description text.
one_line_address	string	Single-line venue address.
city	string	City name from reverse geocode.
city_id	string	Facebook city page ID.
place_type	string	Type of the venue place.
privacy_icon	string	Privacy indicator for the event.
duration_text	string	Duration and price context text where published.
display_duration	string	Human-readable duration where published.
ticket_url	string	External ticket purchase URL where the event sells tickets.
categories	array	Discovery categories Facebook assigns the event.
creator	object	Event creator: id, name, type.
hosts	array	Co-hosts, each with id, name, url, type.
host_names	array	Host names as a flat list.

Example record

{
  "id": "1585998413155078",
  "name": "The Fourth: Celebrating America 250 on the St Pete Pier",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/events/1585998413155078/",
  "event_kind": "PUBLIC_TYPE",
  "description": "Pier Events, LLC Presents: Celebrate America's 250th Anniversary at the St. Pete Pier.",
  "one_line_address": "800 2nd Ave NE, Saint Petersburg, FL",
  "day_time_sentence": "Sat, Jul 4 at 4:00 PM EDT",
  "start_timestamp": 1751659200,
  "start_time": "2026-07-04T20:00:00.000Z",
  "is_online": false,
  "is_past": false,
  "location_name": "St. Pete Pier",
  "place_id": "111326725552547",
  "latitude": 27.77322,
  "longitude": -82.62692,
  "city": "Saint Petersburg, Florida",
  "city_id": "111326725552547",
  "ticket_url": null,
  "interested_count": 4208,
  "going_count": 134,
  "creator": { "id": "100064...", "name": "St. Pete Pier", "type": "Page" },
  "hosts": [
    { "id": "100064...", "name": "St. Pete Pier", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/StPetePier", "type": "Page" },
    { "id": "100064...", "name": "City of St. Petersburg, Florida", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/...", "type": "Page" }
  ],
  "host_names": ["St. Pete Pier", "City of St. Petersburg, Florida"],
  "categories": ["Festivals"],
  "cover_photo_url": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/...",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-03T07:40:00.000Z"
}

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Examples

Search by keyword, with full detail

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["comedy", "live music"],
  "maxResults": 200,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Every event in a city, within a date window

{
  "mode": "city",
  "cityUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/events/explore/amsterdam-netherlands/104032872967849"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-07-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-07-31",
  "maxResults": 500
}

All events hosted by a page or organizer

{
  "mode": "page",
  "pageUrls": ["StPetePier", "https://www.facebook.com/nike"],
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Fast list-only feed, no enrichment

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["festival"],
  "maxResults": 1000,
  "fetchDetails": false
}

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Daily feed of upcoming events (run on a schedule):

{
  "searchQueries": ["live music"],
  "maxResults": 200
}

Schedule this input to run once a day in the Apify Scheduler to catch newly published events.

💰 Pricing

Two result types, each priced separately. You only pay for events returned. Failed retries are never charged.

List result — an event from search, city or page mode without detail enrichment. $0.94 per 1,000. Detail result — an event scraped to full detail. $1.63 per 1,000.

Results	List cost	Detail cost
100	~$0.09	~$0.16
1,000	~$0.94	~$1.63
10,000	~$9.40	~$16.30
100,000	~$94	~$163

Subscription tiers lower both rates further, down to $0.74 per 1,000 list results and $0.89 per 1,000 detail results at the highest tier. Use the Max results cap to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Run size	Typical time
100 events (list only)	under 1 minute
100 events (with details)	1–3 minutes
1,000 events (with details)	10–20 minutes

Detail enrichment fetches one page per event, so runs with it enabled take longer than list-only runs.

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Known limitations

• Attendee identities are never returned. Only aggregate going and interested counts are available, by design.
• Private and invite-only events are not accessible. This scraper covers public events only.
• Some events omit end time, duration, ticket price, or categories. Facebook itself does not always publish these.
• Coordinates and full address are populated in detail mode, not in list-only output.

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Technical details

• Source: public Facebook events
• Coverage: global, any keyword, city, or page
• No login required: does not need a Facebook account
• Retry: automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff

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