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📘 Facebook Profile Scraper | $4/1K | No Login, Real-Time, Multi-Strategy

⚡ Use this Actor in n8n — no code

Building no-code workflows in n8n? Install our official community node and drop this Actor straight onto your canvas:

📦 n8n-nodes-apivault-facebook

Setup (30 seconds): in n8n go to Settings → Community Nodes → Install, paste n8n-nodes-apivault-facebook and confirm → add the new node to your workflow → paste your Apify API token → fill in the input and run.

Direct Facebook scraping for public profiles and pages — name, bio, followers, likes, public emails + phones, websites, verification badge, page category, and a 0-100 activity score. Multi-strategy fallback (mbasic, mobile, embed, OG-meta) survives Facebook's 2026 anti-bot updates. Residential proxy. No login.

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✨ What's new in v2.0 (May 2026)

🔧 Direct fetch — the previous third-party pipeline was blocked by Facebook in early 2026. v2.0 fetches Facebook directly through 5 fallback strategies (mbasic, mobile, desktop, Googlebot, embed iframe) so a block on one route is automatically routed around.

🛡️ Residential proxy by default — Facebook heavily rate-limits datacenter IPs. v2.0 uses Apify residential proxy (country-pinnable) for much higher success rates.

👥 Page vs profile detection — different layouts get different extraction logic. profileType is one of page / profile / group / unknown.

✅ Verification badge detection — surface the blue tick / verified-page status as a boolean.

📊 Activity score (0-100) — composite signal combining followers + verification + has-website + has-email + has-phone + page-vs-profile. Tier classifier: small / growing / established / major.

📧 Email + phone scraping — pulls public emails and phones from page text, JSON-LD blocks, and Open Graph meta. Filtered through 30+ Facebook CDN domain blacklist.

🌐 Website unwrapping — Facebook wraps external links in l.facebook.com/l.php?u=…. v2.0 unwraps them so you get the page's real website URL.

🎯 Best-contact-channel + cross-platform search URLs — one field that says "email this" or "DM this Facebook page", plus 1-click search links for Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter/X, YouTube and Google.

🌍 Locale detection — og:locale exposes the page's primary language for international segmentation.

Why direct scraping won

What you get for $0.004 per profile

Core fields (always returned when scrape succeeds)

• username, fullName, bio, category, locale
• profileUrl, avatarUrl
• profileType — page / profile / group / unknown
• verified — boolean for blue badge

Counts

• followerCount — primary follower number
• likeCount — page likes (different from followers on pages)

Contact data

• emails[], primaryEmail — public emails scraped from page
• phones[], primaryPhone — public phones scraped
• websites[], primaryWebsite — external sites unwrapped from l.facebook.com/l.php?u=…
• bestContact: {channel, value, label} — single highest-confidence outreach path

Lead intelligence (NEW)

• activityScore (0-100) — composite quality signal
• activityScoreReasons[] — every contributing signal in plain English
• activityTier — small / growing / established / major

Cross-platform helpers

• socialSearchUrls{} — 1-click links to find this person/page on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, Google

Diagnostics

• fetchStrategy — which Facebook endpoint succeeded (mbasic / mobile / desktop / googlebot / embed)
• fetchStatus — HTTP status of the successful fetch

Input

{
"profileUrls":[
"https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
"https://www.facebook.com/cocacola",
"https://www.facebook.com/Microsoft"
],
"maxConcurrency":3,
"useResidentialProxy":true,
"proxyCountry":"US"
}

Also returned: facebookId, coverPhoto, alternateName, gender, priceRange, engagementRatio, audienceSize, and isComplete / wasBlocked flags. Accepts bare numeric IDs and /profile.php?id=... as input.

Sample output (NASA page)

{
"success":true,
"inputUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
"profileType":"page",
"fetchStrategy":"mbasic",
"fetchStatus":200,
"username":"NASA",
"fullName":"NASA",
"bio":"Explore the universe and discover our home planet.",
"category":"Government organization",
"locale":"en_us",
"verified":true,
"profileUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
"avatarUrl":"https://scontent.fbcdn.net/...",
"followerCount":26000000,
"likeCount":25800000,
"websites":["https://www.nasa.gov/"],
"primaryWebsite":"https://www.nasa.gov/",
"emails":["public-inquiries@hq.nasa.gov"],
"primaryEmail":"public-inquiries@hq.nasa.gov",
"phones":[],
"primaryPhone":null,
"bestContact":{
"channel":"email",
"value":"public-inquiries@hq.nasa.gov",
"label":"public email from page"
},
"socialSearchUrls":{
"instagram":"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22NASA%22+site%3Ainstagram.com",
"linkedin":"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22NASA%22+site%3Alinkedin.com",
"tiktok":"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22NASA%22+site%3Atiktok.com",
"twitter":"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22NASA%22+site%3Ax.com+OR+site%3Atwitter.com",
"youtube":"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22NASA%22+site%3Ayoutube.com",
"googleSearch":"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22NASA%22"
},
"activityScore":85,
"activityTier":"major",
"activityScoreReasons":[
"verified page (blue badge)",
"business page (extracts more data)",
"26,000,000 followers — major brand",
"has external website",
"has public email"
]
}

Aggregate summary record (always last)

{
"_summary":true,
"totalScraped":8,
"totalFailed":0,
"verifiedCount":5,
"withEmailCount":6,
"withPhoneCount":2,
"withWebsiteCount":7,
"avgActivityScore":67.5,
"activityTierBreakdown":{"small":0,"growing":2,"established":3,"major":3}
}

Use cases

🏢 B2B Lead Generation

Pull a list of competitor pages, filter to those with primaryEmail populated, sort by activityScore. Hand to your SDR team.

📊 Brand Monitoring

Daily snapshot of follower counts, verification status, and category for a watchlist of brands.

🎯 Influencer Discovery

Filter pages by activityTier == "growing" (10K-100K followers) — these are micro-influencers with engaged audiences but reasonable rates.

🔗 CRM Enrichment

Already have FB URLs in your CRM? Run this actor and merge bestContact, primaryEmail, primaryWebsite, verified back into your records.

🌍 International Expansion Research

Use locale to find pages in target markets. Cross-reference socialSearchUrls to find their other-platform presence.

📰 Media Watchlist

Scrape news outlets and government pages periodically. Track follower growth and verification status changes.

How activity score works

Score is clamped 0-100. Tiers: small (<30), growing (30-49), established (50-69), major (70+).

How fetch fallback works

Each profile cycles through 5 endpoints until one returns parseable HTML:

1. mbasic.facebook.com — no-JS accessibility version, lightest HTML, easiest to parse
2. m.facebook.com — modern mobile site
3. www.facebook.com — desktop, heaviest but always serves Open Graph meta
4. Googlebot UA — sometimes opens content blocked from regular browsers
5. embed iframe (/plugins/page.php?href=…) — designed to be embedded, never login-walled

The first endpoint that returns >5 KB of HTML and isn't a login wall wins. mbasic and mobile typically return immediately — desktop and embed are fallbacks.

Pricing

Pay per successful profile:

Free Apify tier (~$5/month) covers ~1,250 profiles per month for free.

You only pay for successful scrapes. If Facebook blocks all 5 strategies for a URL, that record is marked success: false and you're not charged for it.

FAQ

Q: Why was the previous version broken? A: The previous third-party scraping pipeline was blocked by Facebook in early 2026. v2.0 fetches Facebook directly through public HTML endpoints + residential proxy, sidestepping that block.

Q: How accurate is the verification detection? A: When verified: true, the badge has been confirmed via either JSON-LD identifier field or the verification_badge HTML token near the <title>. False negatives possible (some old pages don't expose the badge in HTML even when verified on the live site).

Q: Will this work on personal profiles? A: Yes for public profiles. Personal profiles return less data than pages — typically just name, bio, avatar, and (sometimes) follower count. No category or page email.

Q: Will it scrape private profiles or logged-in features? A: No — only data Facebook serves to logged-out browsers. Friends lists, post content, etc. are not exposed.

Q: How accurate is the email scraping? A: When the page lists a public email in its About section or contact info, the actor finds it. When the page hides emails behind a "Contact Us" button or login prompt, no email is returned. Email extraction also filters out 30+ Facebook CDN domains and image-asset filenames.

Q: What about phone numbers? A: Same as emails — pages that publish them get them extracted. Phone regex requires 10-15 digits.

Q: Speed? A: Typically 5-15 seconds per profile. The actor returns early as soon as mbasic or mobile yields a good response, falling through to slower endpoints only if needed.

Q: Can I use my own proxy? A: Currently the actor uses Apify residential proxy. Custom proxy support is on the roadmap.

Disclaimer

This Actor scrapes only publicly accessible data Facebook serves to logged-out users. Use responsibly and respect Facebook's Terms of Service for your jurisdiction. Do not use scraped data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.