Gab Accounts Scraper

Scrape posts from any public Gab account: pinned posts, posts, reposts, quotes, comments and replies, or just the account profiles. No Gab login is needed. Download the data as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

How to use it

1. Add usernames (a for https://gab.com/a) or profile URLs.
2. Set Max posts per account and the Account posts sort.
3. Optionally set Max comments per post and turn on Add author profile to posts.
4. Click Start.

Set Max posts per account to 0 to save the account profiles (bio, followers, following, post count, verified and PRO badges, avatar, header, join date) instead of posts.

{
    "accounts": ["a", "gab"],
    "desiredPostsCount": 50,
    "accountPostsSortBy": "TOP_ALL_TIME",
    "desiredCommentsCount": 10,
    "addUserInfo": true
}

Output

Pinned posts come first and have pinned: true. Each post has the same columns: id, url, created_at, content (plain text), language, replies_count, reblogs_count, favourites_count, quotes_count, reactions_counts, pinned, media_attachments (images and videos with URLs), card (link preview), poll, mentions, tags, reblog (the original post of a repost), quote (the quoted post) and more. Optional fields are account (author profile), group (group details) and comments (comments and replies with the same columns as posts).

Limits of Gab

Gab shows less to logged-out visitors than to members, and the scraper only collects what Gab shows publicly:

• With the Newest sorts Gab only returns about the last 7 days of posts. Use a Top sort, for example Top all time, to get older posts. The log tells you when a source ran out for this reason.
• At most 500 comments per post.
• Private accounts and groups can't be scraped, but their profiles can be saved with Max posts set to 0.

Is it legal to scrape Gab?

This Actor only collects publicly available data and doesn't log in. Personal data is protected by laws such as GDPR, so only scrape personal data when you have a legitimate reason, and consult a lawyer if you're unsure. Read more in Is web scraping legal?

More Gab data

Gab Scraper does everything in one Actor: accounts, posts, groups, feeds, searches and the marketplace.