Facebook Public Page Posts Scraper

Turn a public Facebook Page into structured post rows for monitoring, research, or an internal content feed. Submit an exact Page root such as https://www.facebook.com/NASA/; the Actor returns the source post ID, validated first-party permalink, creation time, public message text, Page name and ID, observation timestamp, and source evidence. It reads logged-out public Page HTML through Apify Residential Proxy. No Facebook login, cookies, browser session, or customer credential is required.

Each run observes one currently returned HTML document per requested Page and delivers at most 12 rows in total. This is a bounded current-page observation, not a full Page archive or pagination service. If the first Page fills the shared cap, later Pages are not requested. The retained real NASA source fixture produced one qualifying post and exposed an opaque Relay continuation cursor. The Actor records that continuation as available but does not replay the private Relay request. Likes, comments, and shares are null because the observed anonymous payload did not expose values the Actor could verify.

{"pageUrls":["https://www.facebook.com/NASA/"],"maxItems":12}

The price is $0.008 per delivered public post through result-found. There is no start fee or default Dataset-item fee, and source failures or diagnostics are free. Bronze pays $0.0072, Silver $0.0064, and Gold, Platinum, and Diamond $0.0056 per delivered row. Repeating a successful observation is billable again because it delivers a fresh timestamped Dataset row.

Selected fields from the retained public fixture:

{"postId":"1626865878808782","postUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02yzKA4Z5Wnep5xU3PLWyWgRuVebWg3UZoATsEH3wuZcKoZuiLSBL8rEkbe4qTZ65Jl","creationTime":"2026-09-11T14:29:12.000Z","text":"25 years ago, the Sept. 11th tragedy left us forever changed. Today, we pause to remember the Americans who lost their lives — as well as the survivors and the heroes of that day.\n \nWe will never forget: https://go.nasa.gov/3T2hFeV","pageName":"NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration","pageId":"100044561550831","likeCount":null,"commentCount":null,"shareCount":null,"sourceUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA/","observedAt":"2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z"}

What you receive

The default Dataset contains one row per delivered source story. Every row includes schemaVersion, recordType, postId, postUrl, creationTime, text, pageName, pageId, likeCount, commentCount, shareCount, sourceUrl, observedAt, a SHA-256 source reference, and billing metadata. Nullable fields remain null; the Actor does not manufacture engagement counts.

OUTPUT records the outcome, delivery status, per-Page evidence, errors, and a compact snapshot of delivered rows. outcome: "completed" means the available rows were delivered without a source error. deliveryComplete and coverage.complete remain false at the one-document boundary because the result is not a full archive. source_failed, partial, empty, and budget_stopped stay distinct.

How the source is handled

The parser reads only data.user.timeline_list_feed_units.edges[].node from data-sjs Relay payloads in the received logged-out Page. A row is accepted only when its actor URL exactly matches the requested Page root and its permalink is an HTTPS facebook.com/{Page}/posts/{id} URL tied to that Page. Coverage reports whether the document exposed an opaque continuation, while keeping complete: false; the Actor does not create private GraphQL calls or claim that it followed pagination.

Requests use HTTPS with certificate validation, reject redirects, allow one attempt per Page, cap both compressed and decoded content at 5 MiB, and share a bounded run deadline. A login redirect, HTTP error, unexpected content type, malformed Relay data, oversized response, or timeout produces no paid row.

Ready-to-use Task recipes

Current NASA Page observation

{"pageUrls":["https://www.facebook.com/NASA/"],"maxItems":12}

One-row source check

{"pageUrls":["https://www.facebook.com/NASA/"],"maxItems":1}

Repeat snapshot — schedule the same bounded input

{"pageUrls":["https://www.facebook.com/NASA/"],"maxItems":12}

Replace NASA with the exact root of the public Page you are authorized to observe. Inputs can contain up to 10 unique Pages, but the 12-row cap is shared and input order matters.

Costs and run budgets

Tier	Price per delivered row	12 delivered rows
Base	$0.0080	$0.0960
Bronze	$0.0072	$0.0864
Silver	$0.0064	$0.0768
Gold / Platinum / Diamond	$0.0056	$0.0672

The runtime checks the run's effective charge limit before requesting the source and again before each paid write. When starting runs through the Apify API, use a positive maxTotalChargeUsd. A value of 0 can be treated by the platform as unset and replaced by its default. To verify the no-affordable-row path, use a small positive value below one result price, such as 0.0001.

Repeat observations safely

Keep the exact input, run ID, Dataset, and OUTPUT together. Compare postId values only across the same ordered Page list and maxItems. A missing ID means only that the item was not observed within that run's one-document, 12-row boundary; it does not prove deletion. A source failure is reported separately from a valid observed page with no qualifying rows.

Use the data only for lawful purposes and according to Facebook's terms and applicable rights. The Actor reads public Pages and does not access private profiles, groups, messages, or account data.