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.)