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Facebook Post Scraper for Apify

Scrape public Facebook posts, comments, and replies from pages, groups, and profiles.

At a glance: input examples include public Facebook page names, profile paths, group paths, and URLs; output examples are post, comment, and reply dataset rows; use cases include monitoring and public content research; limitations, troubleshooting, and pricing/cost notes are covered below.

This Actor is designed first as an open public scraper. It aims to balance coverage, speed, and cost without requiring a Facebook token.

What it extracts

For posts, the Actor can collect:

• Post author or page name
• Post text
• Post timestamp
• Post permalink URL
• Post ID
• Likes, shares, and visible comment counts
• Profile and page details when available
• Media URLs and outbound links
• Bounded visible comments and replies for selected posts

Supported targets

You can scrape:

• Public Facebook pages
• Public Facebook groups
• Public Facebook profiles
• Multiple targets in one run

Targets can be passed as:

• Full Facebook URLs
• Page names like NASA
• Group or profile paths like groups/apify

Simple input fields

These are the main fields most users need:

• targets: Facebook URLs, page names, or group paths
• startUrls: optional URL list alternative to targets
• maxPosts: maximum posts to return for the processed target, capped at 5
• proxyConfiguration: optional proxy settings

The public scraping strategy is fixed to bounded deep mode to keep costs predictable while still collecting comments. The Actor processes the first target in each run, enriches up to 2 posts, and recovers up to 5 visible comments/replies per enriched post. Advanced legacy inputs are still accepted for backward compatibility, but performance and enrichment overrides are ignored.

Recommended input

For a practical no-token scrape:

{
"targets":["nytimes","NASA"],
"maxPosts":5,
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true,
"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"],
"apifyProxyCountry":"US"
}
}

Output

The dataset contains post, comment, and reply items when comments are visible.

Post fields

Common post fields:

• itemType
• inputTarget
• postAuthor
• postTimestamp
• postText
• postUrl
• postId
• postOwnerId
• likesCount
• sharesCount
• commentCountValue
• profileName
• profileUrl
• profileUsername
• profileId
• profileImageUrl
• profileFollowersCount
• targetType
• targetTitle
• targetDescription
• targetImageUrl
• targetFollowersCount
• targetUrl
• externalUrls
• mediaUrls
• mediaCount
• scrapedAt

Comment and reply fields

Comment and reply rows can include:

• itemType
• inputTarget
• parentPostId
• parentPostUrl
• parentCommentId
• parentCommentUrl
• isReply
• commentText
• commentAuthor
• commentAuthorUrl
• commentTimestamp
• commentId
• commentUrl
• commentSampleIndex
• scrapedAt

Example post item

{
"itemType":"post",
"inputTarget":"NASA",
"postAuthor":"NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
"postTimestamp":"2026-05-01T00:00:00+0000",
"postText":"Post text...",
"postUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/...",
"postId":"pfbid02abc...",
"likesCount":728,
"sharesCount":42,
"commentCountValue":61,
"profileName":"NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
"profileUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
"profileUsername":"NASA",
"externalUrls":["https://example.com"],
"mediaUrls":["https://..."],
"mediaCount":1,
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-01T10:40:00+00:00"
}

Operational notes

• The Actor always uses bounded deep/comment mode.
• maxPosts is capped at 5 even if a higher value is sent through the API.
• Only the first target is processed in a run.
• Up to 2 posts are enriched, with up to 5 comments/replies per enriched post.
• Performance and enrichment overrides are ignored to keep run costs bounded.
• Public Facebook coverage still varies by target, region, proxy quality, and login walls.
• Residential proxies usually improve coverage.

Limits

This is still a best-effort public scraper. Facebook can change markup, throttle anonymous browsing, or block access by region or IP. That means:

• some targets return posts and comments
• some targets return only a few
• some pages are much better with residential proxies

Summary

This Actor is built for teams who want clean Facebook post and comment data from public targets without exposing internal scraping details in the output.