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Facebook Post Scraper with Comments

📌 Introduction

Facebook Post Scraper with Comments is a powerful and efficient Apify actor designed to scrape Facebook posts along with their comments. This tool allows you to extract valuable data, including post details, reactions, images, videos, and comments, helping you analyze engagement and user interactions.

🚀 Key Features

• 🔍 Scrape Facebook Posts – Extracts details such as text, author info, likes, comments, and shares.
• 💬 Retrieve Post Comments – Collects user comments, including author details, engagement counts, and timestamps.
• 📸 Media Extraction – Fetches images and videos attached to posts and comments.
• ⏳ Customizable Wait Times – Set min/max wait times for requests.
• 🍪 Supports Cookies – Allows adding Facebook cookies for authenticated scraping.

🔗 Use Cases

• 📝 Social Media Monitoring – Analyze public discussions and trends.
• 📊 Brand Sentiment Analysis – Track reactions and engagement on brand posts.
• 🏆 Influencer Research – Extract data from influencer posts and comments.
• 🔍 Market Research – Gather insights on trending topics and audience behavior.

🔧 Input Schema

The actor accepts the following JSON input structure:

{
"post_urls":[
{
"url":"https://www.facebook.com/thewitcherfanclub/posts/pfbid02reBdcEgYdgLLP92A7ZJ6KLPcNq3LHha9TjYi2k2ytbeS2q2rxkhCqAWy2m6j3TkRl"
}
],
"fetch_reaction_map":false,
"comments_limit":5,
"min_wait_time_in_sec":1,
"max_wait_time_in_sec":4,
"cookies":[],
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true
}
}

📤 Output Schema

The output will be an array of scraped posts and comments in the following JSON format:

{
"input":"https://www.facebook.com/reel/1397741784161219",
"author":null,
"post_id":"1397741784161219",
"action_id":"ZmVlZGJhY2s6NzU0NTY5MTA2NzEyMTkx",
"text":"Cette voix 🤩\nTeddy Swims est venu interpréter dans nos studios son titre \"Lose Control\" 🎤",
"create_time":1703340048000,
"post_url":"https://www.facebook.com/reel/1397741784161219",
"like_count":26607,
"comment_count":1616,
"share_count":9,
"view_count":4000000,
"reaction_map":[],
"play_count":4000000,
"image_list":[],
"video_list":[
"https://video.fcai20-2.fna.fbcdn.net/o1/v/t2/f2/m366/..."
],
"video_cover_image":[
"https://scontent.fcai20-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/..."
],
"durationInSec":[221.92],
"type":"video",
"author_username":"Skyrock",
"author_user_id":"100064773248135",
"author_profile_url":"https://www.facebook.com/SkyrockFM",
"author_avatar":"https://scontent.fcai20-5.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/...",
"comments":[]
}

Note: The reaction_map field contains reaction breakdown data when fetch_reaction_map is enabled. It is an array of objects with name, count, and parsed_count properties. Example:

{
"reaction_map":[
{
"name":"Like",
"count":166,
"parsed_count":"166"
},
{
"name":"Love",
"count":19,
"parsed_count":"19"
},
{
"name":"Haha",
"count":5,
"parsed_count":"5"
}
]
}