Gab Scraper

Gab Scraper extracts public data from gab.com: posts, pinned posts, reposts, quotes, comments and replies, account profiles, groups, custom feeds, search results and Gab Marketplace listings. Paste Gab URLs or type usernames, group IDs or keywords, and download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

No Gab account or login is needed. The scraper reads the same JSON that the Gab website loads, so it's fast and returns complete data.

What can Gab Scraper do?

Source	Example URL or input	What you get
Account	https://gab.com/a or username a	Pinned posts first, then the account's posts. Or the profile itself (see Profiles instead of posts)
Post	https://gab.com/a/posts/109425213213150835	The post, optionally with its comments
Group	https://gab.com/groups/1898 or group ID 1898	Pinned and regular group posts, or the group details
Group media	https://gab.com/groups/1898/media	Only group posts with images or videos
Feed	https://gab.com/feeds/107613347340494233	Posts of a custom feed
Post search	https://gab.com/search/statuses?q=bitcoin or keyword with search type Posts	Matching posts
People search	https://gab.com/search/people?q=bitcoin	Posts of matching accounts, or their profiles
Group search	https://gab.com/search/groups?q=bitcoin	Posts of matching groups, or the group details
Top search	https://gab.com/search/top?q=bitcoin	Matching people and groups, like the Top tab on Gab
Marketplace search	https://gab.com/marketplace/listings?query=shirt&sort_by=price-asc	Listings, filtered by keyword, category, condition, price and location
Marketplace item	https://gab.com/marketplace/item/117374150812934981	One listing

You can mix any of these in one run. Every post, profile, group and listing is saved only once per run, even if several sources lead to it.

How to use Gab Scraper

1. Add Gab URLs to Gab URLs, or fill Usernames, Group IDs, Search queries or Marketplace search queries.
2. Set Max posts per account, group, feed or search and, if you want comments, Max comments per post.
3. Click Start and download the data from the Output tab.

Input example

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://gab.com/a" }, { "url": "https://gab.com/groups/1898" }],
    "searchQueries": ["bitcoin"],
    "searchType": "STATUSES",
    "desiredPostsCount": 50,
    "desiredCommentsCount": 10,
    "accountPostsSortBy": "NEWEST",
    "groupPostsSortBy": "TOP_MONTHLY",
    "addUserInfo": true
}

Profiles instead of posts

Set Max posts (desiredPostsCount) to 0 to save account profiles and group details instead of their posts. This works for account and group URLs, usernames, group IDs and People, Groups and Top searches. For example, this saves the profiles of the first 50 accounts that match "bitcoin":

{
    "searchQueries": ["bitcoin"],
    "searchType": "PEOPLE",
    "desiredPostsCount": 0,
    "desiredAccountsCount": 50
}

Sorting

Input	Options
accountPostsSortBy	NEWEST, NO_REPOSTS, TOP_TODAY, TOP_WEEKLY, TOP_MONTHLY, TOP_YEARLY, TOP_ALL_TIME
groupPostsSortBy	HOT, RISING, NEWEST, RECENT, TOP_TODAY, TOP_WEEKLY, TOP_MONTHLY, TOP_YEARLY, TOP_ALL_TIME
commentsSortBy	MOST_LIKED, NEWEST, OLDEST
marketplaceSortBy	NEWEST, OLDEST, PRICE_ASCENDING, PRICE_DESCENDING

Output

Each post has the same columns, no matter where it came from. The text is converted from HTML to plain text with line breaks and full link URLs. A trimmed example:

{
    "id": "109425213213150835",
    "url": "https://gab.com/a/posts/109425213213150835",
    "created_at": "2022-11-29T04:30:46.556Z",
    "content": "",
    "language": null,
    "is_reply": false,
    "replies_count": 1017,
    "reblogs_count": 2055,
    "favourites_count": 6856,
    "quotes_count": 173,
    "reactions_counts": { "1": 6058, "6": 562, "11": 125 },
    "account_id": "31",
    "group_id": null,
    "pinned": true,
    "media_attachments": [
        {
            "id": "121474005",
            "type": "image",
            "url": "https://m3.gab.com/media_attachments/18/06/36/1806367bace2a7da52eb3385b324cdc1.jpg",
            "preview_url": "https://m3.gab.com/media_attachments/18/06/36/1806367bace2a7da52eb3385b324cdc1.jpg"
        }
    ],
    "card": null,
    "poll": null,
    "mentions": [],
    "tags": [],
    "status_context": { "id": "109360327882416978", "name": "🙌 Rejoice" },
    "reblog": null,
    "quote": null,
    "account": {
        "id": "31",
        "username": "a",
        "display_name": "Andrew Torba ✝️",
        "url": "https://gab.com/a",
        "followers_count": 4013494,
        "is_verified": true
    },
    "comments": [
        {
            "id": "110885414799378576",
            "url": "https://gab.com/MsPat4921/posts/110885414799378576",
            "content": "Found & connected . . . . . You are a force to be reckoned with, my young friend!",
            "in_reply_to_id": "109425213213150835",
            "favourites_count": 0
        }
    ]
}

• reblog holds the full original post when the post is a repost, quote the quoted post.
• account is added when Add author profile to posts is on, group when Add group details to posts is on.
• comments is added when Max comments per post is above 0. It holds comments and their replies in the order Gab shows them, each with the same columns as a post. Use in_reply_to_id to rebuild the thread. Comments of a repost are taken from the original post.
• Profiles have username, display_name, note (bio as text), followers_count, following_count, statuses_count, is_verified, is_pro, avatar, header, created_at and more.
• Groups have title, description, member_count, is_private, is_verified, url, cover images and more.
• Listings have title, description, price, price_label, condition, location, marketplace_listing_category, media_attachments, attrs and url. The seller is in account (a Gab user) or business (a Gab business), the other one is null.

The Output tab has separate table views for posts, profiles, groups and marketplace listings.

Limits of Gab

Gab shows less to logged-out visitors than to members. The scraper can only get what Gab shows publicly:

• Newest posts reach back about a week. With the NEWEST and NO_REPOSTS account sorts and the HOT, RISING, NEWEST and RECENT group sorts, Gab only returns roughly 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.
• Comments: at most 500 per post.
• Search: about 20 to 40 pages of results per query.
• Private accounts and private groups can't be scraped. Their profiles can still be saved with desiredPostsCount: 0.
• Group media tab requires a Gab login, so group media is collected from the group's posts instead.
• Gab no longer supports filtering marketplace listings by tags or shipping. These old inputs are accepted but ignored.

FAQ

Do I need a Gab account? No. Only public data is scraped, without logging in.

Why did I get fewer posts than I asked for? The account, group or feed has fewer public posts, or the sort only covers recent posts (see Limits of Gab).

Is it legal to scrape Gab? This Actor only collects publicly available data. Personal data is protected by laws such as GDPR, so only scrape personal data when you have a legitimate reason. If you're unsure, consult a lawyer. Read more in Is web scraping legal?

Integrations and API

Connect Gab Scraper with Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Sheets, Airbyte, GitHub and other integrations, or run it from your code with the Apify API and the apify-client package for Node.js or Python. The API tab has ready-to-use examples.

Focused versions

These Actors have a simpler input form for one use case and return the same data:

• Gab Accounts Scraper
• Gab Groups Scraper
• Gab Search Scraper
• Gab Marketplace Scraper