Facebook Events Scraper

Facebook Events Scraper: public events by keyword, city, Page or link

Search Facebook events by keyword, narrow it to a city, or paste event, Page and Group links. Every event comes back as one row: name, description, start and end time with the timezone, venue and coordinates, organiser, ticket link and how many people said they are going.

The number to plan around: Facebook's public events search hands back about eight events per search term. One term is a sample, not a sweep. Several terms, a city, or a list of Pages is what makes a run worth doing.

🔍 What Facebook Events Scraper does

Each search term is run in turn, a city narrows them, and anything you paste into startUrls is followed as well. An event found twice, once by search and once from its organiser's Page, is delivered once and charged once.

Then every event that makes the cut is opened for the full detail. That is where the description, the exact times, the venue coordinates, the organisers and the ticket link come from, rather than the thin card the search results carry.

A city name is matched against Facebook's own location list. A handful of well-known names collide with same-named towns in the United States, so Rome, Hamburg, Brussels, Warsaw and Bristol can resolve to the smaller one. If the city matters, open Facebook events in your browser, pick the city there, and paste that events/explore/ URL into location instead. When a name resolves to nothing at all, the run folds it into the search text and tells you in a free note row.

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchTerms": ["music festival", "food festival"],
  "location": "Berlin",
  "maxEvents": 20,
  "startingFrom": "7 days"
}

Run it with empty input and you get one labelled sample row, free, so you can see the shape before you spend anything.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run, with the cover link and the category link trimmed:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "event",
  "eventId": "2296861047800608",
  "eventUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/events/2296861047800608/",
  "name": "Pakistan Music Festival 2026",
  "description": "Join us for the Pakistan Music Festival 2026, happening on 25, 26 & 27 September at 8 PM at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi. ...",
  "startTime": "2026-09-25T15:00:00.000Z",
  "startTimestamp": 1790348400,
  "endTime": "2026-09-27T18:00:00.000Z",
  "endTimestamp": 1790532000,
  "timezone": "UTC+05",
  "dateText": "25 Sep at 20:00 – 27 Sep at 23:00 PKT",
  "venueName": "Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi",
  "venueAddress": null,
  "venueCity": null,
  "latitude": 24.85276668172,
  "longitude": 67.020439147949,
  "isOnline": false,
  "onlineUrl": null,
  "organizers": [
    { "id": "100067158235335", "name": "Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/ACPKHI", "type": "User" }
  ],
  "organizerName": "Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi",
  "organizerUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/ACPKHI",
  "ticketUrl": "http://www.acpkhi.com/events",
  "priceRange": null,
  "attendingCount": 67,
  "interestedCount": 557,
  "respondedCount": 624,
  "coverImageUrl": "https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/801786067_13878375...",
  "categories": [{ "label": "Music", "uri": "https://www.facebook.com/events/search/?filters=..." }],
  "isCanceled": false,
  "isPast": false,
  "sourceType": "search",
  "sourceQuery": "music festival",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/events/search/?q=music+festival",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T01:29:28.847Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Filter on charged == true and you have your data. That flag is what separates real rows from the sample and the diagnostics, not a receipt.

One quirk of the Console's Overview table: it shows the name, times and venue, so coordinates, organisers, tickets and attendance read as missing there. Open the row or download the JSON and they are all present.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Facebook Events Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Put what you are looking for into Search terms, one per line, and a city into City or location if it matters. 3. Set Maximum events. Start at 20 while you look at the output. 4. Click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.90 per 1,000 events. The same rate on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay for events that come back with detail. The sample row, every diagnostic row, events dropped by your date window or your filters, and an event found twice through two different inputs are not charged, and neither is a search that finds nothing.

💡 What people use it for

• Building a what's-on list for one city and one month, with venues and ticket links attached.
• Finding sponsorship and stall opportunities: search a category, filter to ticketed, read

organizerUrl.

• Watching the events a set of Pages is hosting, by pasting the Pages rather than searching.
• Feeding a map: latitude and longitude are on the row, so events plot without geocoding.

🚧 What it does not do

• No guest lists. Facebook never publishes who is going, only how many. There is no field for

it because there is no data for it.

• Search is shallow. About eight events per term is what the public search returns. Depth comes

from more terms and more Pages, not from a bigger number in maxEvents.

• category and paidOnly apply to search terms only. Events reached through a Page, Group,

city or event link come back whatever their category or price, and they are charged like any other row. Filter those in your own sheet.

• Private, group-only and invite-gated events are invisible, as they are to anyone not signed in

and invited.

• Recurring series are not expanded. A weekly event is one event, the way Facebook lists it.
• You can get fewer events than you asked for. Past events are only recognised once the full

detail is read, and a run does not go back for replacements after dropping them.

• Attendance counts are rounded on busy events, because Facebook rounds them before publishing.
• Some two-word phrases return nothing at all. Try the broader word on its own before assuming

there are no events.

🧭 Which Facebook scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Facebook account? No. Public events read fine without one. sessionCookies is there for people running heavily who would rather use their own account's rate limit.

How do I get more events for one city? Run several search terms against it, add the Pages of the venues you care about, and paste the city's events/explore/ URL rather than typing the name.

Why did my city return events somewhere else? A few city names match a same-named town. Paste the events/explore/ URL for the city instead, and the run uses exactly that area.

Can I get past events? From a Page or Group, yes, with includePastEvents. Search itself is about what is coming up.

Is scraping Facebook legal? This reads public events only. Organiser details are still personal data under GDPR and similar laws, so have a reason for collecting them. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes, on Apify's scheduler, or start it from the API and read the dataset when it finishes.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Paste the search term or link you used and the run ID, and the log is enough for us to see what happened.