Facebook Posts Scraper — Pages, Groups & Comments, No Login

Scrape posts from public Facebook Pages and public Facebook Groups without a Facebook account, cookies or login. Paste Page or Group links and get one clean row per post: the text, photos and videos, the exact publish time, total reactions broken down by type, comment and share counts, and optionally the newest comments. Turn on Only new posts and schedule it: every run then delivers just the posts you have not received before, so a monitoring schedule never pays twice for the same post.

Built for social-listening and brand-monitoring agencies, competitive-intelligence teams and researchers who need a dependable Facebook post feed without managing accounts.

What data can this Facebook scraper extract?

Field	What you get
text	The post text (null for posts published without a caption, such as memes)
createdAt	Exact publish time, ISO 8601 (UTC)
postType	text, photo, album, video, reel, link, event or share
media	Photo files, and the video page, thumbnail and duration for videos and reels
reactionsCount + reactionLikeCount … reactionAngryCount	Total reactions and the full breakdown: Like, Love, Care, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry
commentsCount, sharesCount, videoViewCount	Engagement as Facebook shows it
linkUrl, sharedPostUrl	The shared link (unwrapped from Facebook's redirect) or the original of a re-share
sourceName, sourceId, sourceType	Which Page or Group the post came from
authorName, authorId, authorUrl	Group posts: the member who posted (switch off with "Include author names")
comments	Optional: the newest top-level comments with text, time, reaction and reply counts

Every run also writes an OUTPUT record with a status per Page or Group (read, nothing new, private group, not available, blocked) and a ready-to-paste rerunInput for anything unfinished.

Example output

{
  "postId": "1639114777583892",
  "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/100044561550831/posts/1639114777583892/",
  "sourceType": "page",
  "sourceName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/",
  "sourceId": "100044561550831",
  "postType": "photo",
  "text": "Welcome to the Artemis Accords, San Marino 🇸🇲\n\nSan Marino has joined 75 other nations by committing to the safe and sustainable exploration of space. https://go.nasa.gov/4iKdyyL",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-25T20:31:03.000Z",
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "photo",
      "url": "https://scontent-phl2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.99422-6/825340597_3467943383376834_2458584074081235097_n.png?…",
      "thumbnailUrl": null,
      "durationSec": null
    }
  ],
  "linkUrl": null,
  "sharedPostUrl": null,
  "reactionsCount": 1048,
  "reactionLikeCount": 897,
  "reactionLoveCount": 122,
  "reactionCareCount": 16,
  "reactionHahaCount": 8,
  "reactionWowCount": 3,
  "reactionSadCount": 0,
  "reactionAngryCount": 2,
  "commentsCount": 138,
  "sharesCount": 137,
  "videoViewCount": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T15:36:16.411Z"
}

With Include comments on, each post also carries a comments array: [{ "commentId", "text", "createdAt", "reactionsCount", "replyCount", "commentUrl", "authorName", "authorId", "authorUrl" }].

How to scrape Facebook posts (quick start)

1. Paste one or more Facebook Page or public Group links into Facebook Page or Group URLs. Full links, m.facebook.com links, profile.php?id= links and bare Page names (NASA) all work.
2. Set Max posts per Page or Group.
3. Click Start. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them via the API.

Latest 50 posts from two Pages and a Group:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/NASA", "https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews", "https://www.facebook.com/groups/874728723021553"],
  "maxPostsPerSource": 50
}

A daily monitor that only returns new posts, with their newest comments:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/NASA", "https://www.facebook.com/groups/874728723021553"],
  "maxPostsPerSource": 50,
  "onlyNewPosts": true,
  "includeComments": true
}

Everything posted in the last 7 days:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork"],
  "maxPostsPerSource": 200,
  "postedAfter": "7 days"
}

How does "Only new posts" monitoring work?

Save the input as a task and schedule it (hourly, daily, weekly). The first run returns the newest posts as the starting point. Every later run returns only posts that this monitor has not delivered before, and is charged only for those. A run with nothing new finishes successfully with "No new posts since the last run".

• Each saved task keeps its own memory. To share one memory between tasks, give them the same Monitor ID (under Advanced).
• If more new posts are waiting than Max posts per Page or Group allows, the run says so; raise the limit so a schedule never skips posts.
• If a run of the same monitor is still in progress when the next one starts, the new run stops before fetching instead of delivering the same posts twice.

How much does it cost to scrape Facebook posts?

Pay per result: you pay for each post delivered, and for each comment when you turn comments on. The current price per event is shown above on this page. Private groups, personal profiles, links Facebook reports as unavailable, and posts you already received in monitoring mode are never charged.

Use cases

• Social listening and brand monitoring: schedule "Only new posts" on your clients' and competitors' Pages and the public Groups where their customers talk; pipe new posts and comments to Slack, Sheets or your warehouse.
• Competitive intelligence: compare posting cadence and engagement by type (reactionLoveCount, sharesCount, videoViewCount) across competitors' Pages; sort by reactionsCount to see what lands.
• Community research: collect a public Group's recent discussion with postedAfter, then analyse topics and sentiment on text and comments.
• Content and campaign tracking: filter postType = reel or video to study which formats a Page invests in and how they perform.

FAQ

Do I need a Facebook account or cookies?

No. The scraper only reads what Facebook shows to logged-out visitors. It never logs in, never uses cookies from your account, and cannot see anything behind a login.

Which Facebook pages and groups can it read?

Public Facebook Pages (businesses, brands, media, organisations, public figures' Pages) and public Groups. Private groups and personal profiles need a login, so they are reported as NOT_PUBLIC / PERSONAL_PROFILE in the OUTPUT record, free of charge.

Can it search Facebook for a keyword or hashtag?

No. Facebook requires a login for search, so this scraper works from Page and Group links. To narrow results, use Only posts newer than and filter the text field in your own tools.

How far back can it go?

Pages are read backwards in time, 25 posts per request, up to Max posts per Page or Group. Public groups are read through Facebook's public group feed, which only reaches a limited recent window; when the feed ends, the run says so (no more posts in the public feed) instead of returning nothing.

Why are some author IDs or profile links empty?

Facebook hides the numeric ID and profile link of many private individuals from logged-out visitors. Those fields are then null: the scraper never guesses or fills in a value.

What does it return for comments?

The newest top-level comments of each post (replies are not included), up to Max comments per post. [] means Facebook shows no comments for that post (none yet, or commenting is turned off); null means Facebook did not serve them during this run, and you are not charged for comments on that post.

What happens when Facebook refuses a request?

Facebook rate-limits some IP addresses, sometimes for a while. The scraper detects every refusal and retries on fresh IPs with growing pauses, and a Page or Group that was refused outright gets one more try at the end of the run. If it still cannot be read, it is marked BLOCKED in the OUTPUT record, nothing is charged for it, and rerunInput lists it so you can run it again later. The same goes for a source Facebook stopped serving part-way: you keep (and pay for) the posts already delivered, and rerunInput lists the source.

Is it legal to scrape Facebook?

This scraper only collects publicly visible data from public Pages and Groups, without logging in. In Meta Platforms v. Bright Data (N.D. Cal., 2024), the court found that Meta's terms did not bar logged-off scraping of public data. Posts and comments can still contain personal data, so the GDPR and similar laws apply to how you use them: collect only what you need, switch off Include author names if you don't need names, and make sure you have a legitimate purpose. This is not legal advice; ask your lawyer about your specific use.

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