Gab Search Scraper

Search Gab like on the website and scrape the results: matching posts, people or groups, the posts of the accounts and groups you find, their comments, or just the profiles. No Gab login is needed. Download the data as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

How to use it

1. Add keywords to Search queries, or Gab search URLs such as https://gab.com/search/people?q=bitcoin.
2. Pick the Search type:
   • Posts saves posts that match the query.
   • People saves the posts of matching accounts.
   • Groups saves the posts of matching groups.
   • Top does both people and groups, like the Top tab on Gab.
3. Set Max posts and, for People, Groups and Top, Max accounts per search and Max groups per search.
4. Click Start.

Set Max posts to 0 with the People, Groups or Top type to save the matching profiles and groups instead of their posts:

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

Output

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).

Profiles have username, display_name, note (bio), followers_count, following_count, statuses_count, is_verified, is_pro, avatar and more. Groups have title, description, member_count, is_private, is_verified, url and more.

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.
• Gab returns about 20 to 40 pages of search results per query.

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.