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Facebook Scraper Pro

Facebook Scraper Pro is a powerful Apify actor designed to extract data from Facebook efficiently. It offers multiple scraping functions to gather data from Facebook searches, profiles, posts, and comments. Below is a detailed guide to help you understand and use this actor effectively.

Key Features

1. Facebook Search Scraper: Searches for specific keywords on Facebook and returns relevant posts.
2. Facebook Profiles Scraper: Extracts detailed information from Facebook profiles, including ID, name, friends count, likes count, location, gender, profile avatar, birthday, and profile posts.
3. Facebook Posts Scraper: Scrapes data from specific Facebook posts, including text, likes, comments, shares, and media.
4. Facebook Comments Scraper: Extracts comments from specific Facebook posts, including comment text, likes, replies, and author details.

Important Notes

• Actor Function: Specifies the scraping function to use (facebook_search_scraper, facebook_profiles_scraper, facebook_posts_scraper, facebook_comments_scraper).
• Rate Limiting: Use appropriate min_wait_time_in_sec and max_wait_time_in_sec to avoid blocking.
• Data Limits: Use the results_limit parameter to control the amount of data scraped.
• Strict Search: Use the strict_search parameter to only retrieve posts containing the exact keyword provided by keyword parameter.
• Follow Post Scraping: Use follow_post_scraping (default: true) to control whether SEARCH and PROFILE results are followed by an additional post-scraping step for more reliable/richer post details.

Input Schema

The input schema for the Facebook Scraper Pro actor is as follows:

{
// enum for "function" ["facebook_search_scraper", "facebook_profiles_scraper", "facebook_posts_scraper", "facebook_comments_scraper"]
"function":"facebook_search_scraper",
"filter_by_recent_posts":true,// used in facebook_search_scraper
"strict_search":false,// used in facebook_search_scraper
"since":"1d",// used to fetch data in interval time (1d, 7d, 30d)
"keyword":"BBC",// used in facebook_search_scraper
"results_limit":5,// limit number of posts or comments returned
"min_wait_time_in_sec":2,// minimum seconds to wait for each cursor.
"max_wait_time_in_sec":6,// maximum seconds to wait for each cursor.
"cookies":[],// Optional Facebook user account cookies for improved scraping reliability and maintainability.
"fetch_reaction_map":false,// When enabled, fetches reaction breakdown for video posts only.
"follow_post_scraping":true,// When enabled, SEARCH and PROFILE results are followed by post scraping for more reliable post details.
"profile_urls":[
// used in facebook_profiles_scraper
{
"url":"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61568555420777"
}
],
"post_urls":[
// used in facebook_posts_scraper
{
"url":"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=918725866988227"
}
],
"post_urls_for_comments":[
// used in facebook_comments_scraper
{
"url":"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=918725866988227"
}
],
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true
}
}

Output Schema

Facebook Search Scraper, Facebook Profiles Scraper, Facebook Posts Scraper

{
// "author" only exists in Facebook Profile Scraper Responses
"author":{
"user_name":"Chief&Chill",
"user_id":"61568555420777",
"user_url":"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61568555420777",
"avatar":"https://scontent.fcai20-6.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/326769796_731573711877409_5775268283301149505_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s200x200_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=2d3e12&_nc_ohc=XXAYvfYQ_XgQ7kNvwFiOR3P&_nc_oc=AdneB4lCDPZ95GwkBc18yPBqBDx0KJBbBs3BtpBIarAhHXX_Xe04Bt93nF8-rPbu4mQ&_nc_zt=24&_nc_ht=scontent.fcai20-6.fna&_nc_gid=82BoXRmuCctRCyAwsu2f_w&oh=00_AfJG6Qx8GljgLqvbHK-0LgEBFqp11KvgYfhKtCPYQ84lDw&oe=682E9F53",
"intro":"Organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful.",
"email":"for.loop.2020@gmail.com",
"followers_count":"37K",
"friends_count":null,
"likes_count":"750",
"following_count":null,
"location":null,
"gender":"UNKNOWN",
"birthday":null,
"created_at":"22 June 2020",
"category":"Community"
},
"post_id":"122118274184618514",
"action_id":"ZmVlZGJhY2s6MTIyMTE4Mjc0MTg0NjE4NTE0",
"text":"No Man Sky !!\nCredits @qballgamingYT\n#gamingcommunity\n#gaming\n#besttime\n#funnymoments",
"create_time":1737231816,
"post_url":"https://www.facebook.com/61568555420777/videos/8940928369328022/",
"like_count":47,
"comment_count":591,
"share_count":32,
"view_count":0,
"reaction_map":[
{
"name":"Like",
"count":166,
"parsed_count":"166"
},
{
"name":"Love",
"count":19,
"parsed_count":"19"
},
{
"name":"Haha",
"count":5,
"parsed_count":"5"
},
{
"name":"Care",
"count":2,
"parsed_count":"2"
}
],
"play_count":0,
"image_list":[],
"video_list":[],
"video_cover_image":[],
"durationInSec":[],
"type":"video",
"author_username":"UNILAD",
"author_user_id":"100064850344103",
"author_profile_url":"https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag",
"author_avatar":"https://scontent.fcai20-1.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":337,
"parsed_count":"337"
},
{
"name":"Sad",
"count":229,
"parsed_count":"229"
},
{
"name":"Care",
"count":185,
"parsed_count":"185"
}
]
}

Facebook Comments Scraper

{
"action_id":"ZmVlZGJhY2s6OTAyOTM5NjE2MzgxODE1N185MDI5NDA2MTUzODE3MTU4",
"comment_id":"9029406153817158",
"gender":"FEMALE",
"author_user_id":"100009355176494",
"author_username":"Lillian Mamdouh",
"author_profile_url":"https://www.facebook.com/lillian.mamdouh.7",
"author_avatar":"",
"text":"Up",
"like_count":0,
"reply_count":0,
"create_time":1738101623,
"image_list":[],
"video_list":[],
"video_cover_image":[],
"post":{
"post_id":"9029396163818157",
"post_url":"https://www.facebook.com/groups/5958702877554183/posts/9029396163818157/",
"author_user_id":"pfbid036cJegrwq7rXF3Le6BCGDZd8nwuGw31mwx2smn8go2sbjRe23PocViB4H7DW4VgQ6l",
"author_username":"Perihan Sameh",
"author_profile_url":null,
"author_avatar":""
},
"input":"https://www.facebook.com/groups/5958702877554183/posts/9029396163818157/"
}