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Facebook Post Detail Scraper

Extract full details for a single public Facebook post by URL — author, full text, timestamp, attached media, reactions, comments count and shares count — in a clean structured JSON output.

Why use this actor

• No account / no login required — just paste a public Facebook post URL.
• No API key needed — Facebook's Graph API does not return public post content without permissions; this actor returns the same data the public web page shows.
• Rich detail — full post text (not truncated), author name and profile URL, media URLs, ISO-8601 creation timestamp, reactions, comments count and shares count in a single row.
• Bulk input — pass a list of post URLs in one run; one clean dataset row per post.
• Automatic retries — transient failures retry with exponential backoff; posts that genuinely don't exist or are gated surface as _error rows so you can triage failures.
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, and databases — every row carries _input, _source, _scrapedAt envelope fields so you can join results back to your input list.

How it works

1. You provide a list of Facebook post URLs (e.g. https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/1524998752328829).
2. The actor fetches each post page and reads the post record the same way the Facebook web app does, then assembles a flat JSON record with author, body, media and engagement counts.
3. Results stream into your dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You do not need to manage scrapers, browsers, or rotating IPs — all handled internally.

Input

{
"posts":[
"https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/1524998752328829",
"https://www.facebook.com/Meta/posts/pfbid02fponXQPxSYZfbPKTGuDWvV7evMdoSFdqGn7TPR3kium9mzh4McCc6JXghsHLPkZXl"
],
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true,
"apifyProxyGroups":["DATACENTER"]
}
}

Output

Input: https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/1524998752328829

{
"_input":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/1524998752328829",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T11:37:16.784655+00:00",
"postId":"1524998752328829",
"id":"UzpfSTEwMDA0NDU2MTU1MDgzMToxNTI0OTk4NzUyMzI4ODI5OjE1MjQ5OTg3NTIzMjg4Mjk=",
"ownerName":"NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
"ownerProfileUrl":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
"ownerImageUrl":"https://scontent.fcgk12-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/243095782_416661036495945_3843362260429099279_n.png?stp=cp0_dst-png_s50x50&_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=2d3e12&...",
"createdAt":"2026-05-13T17:25:44+00:00",
"createdAtEpoch":1778693144,
"text":"Planning is underway for our Artemis III mission, which will test the capabilities of NASA's Orion spacecraft and one or both commercial landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX as they meet and dock in Earth's orbit. \n\nThis highly complex mission will be an important step to landing astronauts on the Moon with Artemis IV in 2028. Details: https://go.nasa.gov/4dv2scO",
"permalink":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02fponXQPxSYZfbPKTGuDWvV7evMdoSFdqGn7TPR3kium9mzh4McCc6JXghsHLPkZXl",
"reactionCount":null,
"reactionCountText":"7.1K",
"commentCount":527,
"shareCount":640
}

Error envelope

Posts that don't exist, are deleted, or fail to fetch return a structured error instead of crashing the run:

{
"_input":"https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/0000000000000000",
"_error":"not_found",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T11:38:02.012345+00:00"
}

Common _error values:

Filter on _error to triage failed rows.

Pricing

This actor is billed per result: $6.00 per 1,000 posts (Tier 4). Each successful post = 1 result. Errors (not_found, login_wall) are not billed.

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Notes

• Deleted posts and removed pages return {"_error": "not_found", "_input": "..."}. Filter these out before billing reports.
• reactionCount is the raw integer when Facebook exposes it; on many pages Facebook only renders a rounded label, in which case reactionCount is null and you should use reactionCountText ("7.1K", "1.2M").
• commentCount and shareCount are the counts Facebook displays on the post — Facebook itself rounds these for large posts, so treat them as approximate near the high end.
• ownerImageUrl is a short-lived CDN URL — re-fetch or re-host if you need long-term storage.
• For large jobs (>1,000 posts), keep the default Datacenter proxy but enable Apify Proxy rotation; switch to Residential only if you start seeing login_wall rows on otherwise public posts.