Facebook Search Scraper

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Scrape Facebook business pages by category + location. Strategy: Google SERP → Facebook Pages.

Strategy: Google SERP Discovery

1. Build queries: Categories × locations → e.g. "Pub NYC", "Bar London"
2. Google SERP: Search site:facebook.com {query} via Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy
3. Extract URLs: Parse organic results, paginate &start=0, 10, 20...
4. Scrape pages: Visit each Facebook URL, extract business data
5. Output: Push results to dataset in real time

Key Features

• Google SERP discovery — Uses site:facebook.com search to find Facebook pages
• GOOGLE_SERP proxy — Required for discovery (Apify proxy group)
• Proxy fallback — For page scraping: No proxy → Datacenter → Residential (3 retries)
• Live saving — Results saved to dataset as they're scraped

Input

Example Input

{
"categories":["Pub","Bar"],
"locations":["NYC","London"],
"resultsLimit":20,
"proxyConfiguration":{"useApifyProxy":false}
}

Output

Each item includes: facebookUrl, title, categories, address, phone, email, website, rating, followers, profilePictureUrl, business_hours, etc.

How to Use

1. Open Apify Console → Actors
2. Select facebook-search-scraper
3. Set categories + locations (e.g. Pub, NYC)
4. Run the actor
5. View results in the OUTPUT tab
6. Export as JSON or CSV

Requirements

• GOOGLE_SERP proxy — Required for discovery. Contact support@apify.com if you don't have access.

Cautions

• Data from public sources only
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws (privacy, ToS, etc.)

What are other Facebook scraping tools?

If you want to scrape specific Facebook data, you can use any of the dedicated scrapers below for faster and more targeted results.