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Facebook Followers & Following Scraper
Extract data from Facebook pages and profiles about its followers and profiles it follows. Just enter the URL, and you'll get data such as follow type, profile's URL, image, title, and subtitle. You can integrate your workflow with tools such as Google Drive, Zapier, Make and much more.
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What is Facebook Followers & Following Scraper?
Facebook Followers & Following Scraper is a simple and powerful tool that allows you to extract data from Facebook posts and profiles about its followers and followings.. To get that data, just insert the URL of Facebook page or profile, and click "Save & Start" button.
What Facebook Followers & Following data can I extract?
With this Facebook API, you will be able to extract the following data from Facebook:
| 📝 Followers/following title | 📕 Followers/following subtitle |
| 🔗 Followers/following profile URL | 🗂️ If the user is follower or following |
Why scrape Facebook Followers & Following?
🤺 Competition monitoring to identify what audience they have
🔍 Market research or analysis
🔥 Monitoring trends and brand sentiment and use the data for your business strategy
🥸 Social media analysis and identifying hot spots of misinformation
How do I use Facebook Followers & Following Scraper?
Facebook Followers & Following Scraper was designed to be easy to start with even if you've never extracted data from the web before. Here's how you can scrape Facebook followers and following with this tool:
- Create a free Apify account using your email.
- Open Facebook Followers & Following Scraper
- Add one or more Facebook page/profile URLs to scrape its followers and following on Facebook.
- Click "Start" and wait for the data to be extracted.
- Download your data in JSON, XML, CSV, Excel, or HTML.
If you want more guidance on how to use Facebook Followers & Following Scraper, here's a full video that explains it:
🔼 Input
The input for Facebook Posts Scraper should be URLs of Facebook pages or Facebook profiles you want to scrape followers and following from. Doing this, you’ll overcome the problem of how to see followers and following on Facebook. The only think you need to do is fill in the input form like this:
👁 facebook_followers_following_input
🔽 Output sample
The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the dataset you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:
👁 facebook_followers_following_output
You can choose in which format to download your Facebook data: CSV, Excel spreadsheet, JSON, JSONL, HTML table, or XML.
Want to scrape Facebook search or comments?
It’s not only about Facebook Followers & Following, right? You can use the dedicated scrapers below if you want to scrape specific Facebook data. Each of them is built particularly for the relevant Facebook scraping case; be it reviews, ads, comments, or photos. Feel free to browse them:
Integrate your Facebook Followers & Following Scraper results!
Last but not least, Facebook Followers & Following Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform.
These include:
Alternatively, you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever Facebook Followers & Following Scraper successfully finishes a run.
❓FAQ
How much does Facebook Followers & Following Scraper cost?
Facebook Followers & Following uses the Pay-per-result pricing model, so your costs can be easily calculated: it will cost you $7 to scrape 1,000 results, so $0.007 per item. Apify provides you with $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan, so you can get 714 results from Facebook Followers & Following Scraper for free.
But if you need to extract data regularly, you should get an Apify subscription. We recommend our $49/month Starter plan — that one could get you over 7,000 Facebook Followers & Following Scraper results every month.
How can I use Facebook Followers & Following Scraper with the Apify API
The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more. To access the API using Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the apify-client PyPI package.
Check out the Apify API reference docs for full details or click on the API tab for code examples.
Is it legal to scrape Facebook Followers & Following data?
Our Facebook scrapers are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so.
If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. You can also read our blog post on the legality of web scraping and ethical scraping.
Your feedback
We’re always working on improving the performance of our Actors. So if you’ve got any technical feedback for Facebook Pages Scraper or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the Actor’s Issues tab in Apify Console.
