Facebook Posts Scraper

Facebook Posts Scraper: recent public posts from any Page, with media and counts

Give it Page links or plain handles and you get their recent posts back, one row each: the full text, the exact posting time, the permalink, every photo and video, and the reaction, comment and share counts.

The ceiling is the thing to know first. The public version of a Page carries its 20 most recent posts, so 20 per Page is as deep as anyone reads it without logging in. This Actor is built to go wide instead: 50 Pages in a run, newest posts from each, rather than a thousand posts from one Page.

🔍 What Facebook Posts Scraper does

It reads the public version of the Page that Facebook publishes for search engines and lifts the posts out of the structured data already sitting inside it. One read per Page brings back the whole recent batch, so taking 20 posts from a Page costs the same time as taking 3.

Reactions come back two ways. reactionsCount is the total, and topReactions breaks that same total down by type, so you can see 3,356 likes against 3 angry without a second request.

The two date fields narrow that recent batch rather than reaching further back. On a Page that posts daily, asking for last quarter will correctly return nothing, and no post rows are charged.

📥 What you give it

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/NASA", "BBCNews"],
  "resultsLimit": 20,
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "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. The post text is cut short, and the alt text and one link are trimmed:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "post",
  "inputUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
  "pageName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "pageId": "100044561550831",
  "pageUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/",
  "pageIsVerified": true,
  "pageFollowers": 28726940,
  "pageLikes": null,
  "postId": "1632778914884145",
  "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02ysmQKDUFAPT3a753WjmadF...",
  "text": "No matter where you are, we all see the same Moon. ...",
  "textLength": 247,
  "time": "2026-09-18T14:22:15.000Z",
  "timestamp": 1789741335,
  "reactionsCount": 5542,
  "topReactions": [
    { "type": "Like", "count": 3356 },
    { "type": "Love", "count": 2013 },
    { "type": "Care", "count": 127 },
    { "type": "Haha", "count": 23 },
    { "type": "Wow", "count": 20 },
    { "type": "Angry", "count": 3 }
  ],
  "commentsCount": 313,
  "sharesCount": 703,
  "postType": "photo",
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "photo",
      "id": "1632778881550815",
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1632778881550815&set=a.416661013162614",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/lookaside/crawler/media/?media_id=1632778881550815",
      "altText": "A view from low Earth orbit of Earth's horizon and a waxing gibbous moon. ...",
      "style": "Photo"
    }
  ],
  "mediaCount": 1,
  "isReel": false,
  "isSponsored": false,
  "linkUrl": null,
  "linkTitle": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T01:45:54.791Z"
}

pageFollowers and pageLikes are whichever of the two Facebook publishes on that Page. The other one comes back null, which is honest rather than missing. sharesCount is null where the count is not published.

🧾 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 Page and post columns, so the engagement counts and the media look missing there. Open the row itself or download the JSON and they are all present.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Facebook Posts Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Put your Pages into Facebook Page URLs, one per line. 3. Set Posts per Page. Leave it at 20 unless you want fewer. 4. Click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.65 per 1,000 posts. The same rate on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay for posts that come back with data. The sample row, every diagnostic row, posts dropped by your date filters and the same Page listed twice are not charged, and neither is a Page that turns out to have no public posts.

💡 What people use it for

• Pulling twenty Pages every morning and diffing on postId to see only what is new.
• Reporting: reaction, comment and share counts land as plain numbers, so engagement rate is a

spreadsheet formula rather than a cleaning job.

• Deciding what to publish by reading what a whole category of Pages posted this week, sorted by

reactionsCount.

• Keeping an archive of a Page you own, permalinks and media links included, so the record survives

a deleted post.

🚧 What it does not do

• No deep history. Twenty posts per Page is the ceiling, and the date filters work inside those

twenty. If you need last year, this is the wrong tool.

• Public Pages only. Private timelines, groups, events and anything behind a login come back as

an uncharged diagnostic row.

• Age-restricted and country-restricted Pages show a signed-out visitor no timeline at all.

Those return an uncharged row, and re-running will not change it.

• No comment text and no reactor identities. You get the counts. The comments themselves are a

separate Actor, linked below.

• Pinned posts can be missing. Facebook leaves them out of the public timeline it renders, so a

Page whose newest content is pinned may show it lower down or not at all.

• Counts are a snapshot at read time and keep moving on a live post.
• Nothing is translated. The text comes back in the language it was written in.

🧭 Which Facebook scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

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

Can I get more than 20 posts from one Page? Not from the public Page. That is what it carries, and nothing in the input raises it.

Why did a Page return nothing? Either it publishes no posts, everything it has is outside your date window, or it is restricted to signed-in visitors. The diagnostic row says which.

Can I use a handle instead of a full link? Yes. NASA and https://www.facebook.com/NASA are the same input.

Is scraping Facebook legal? This reads public Pages only, never private content. Results can still contain personal data, which GDPR and similar laws cover, so have a reason for collecting it. 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 Page link you used and the run ID, and the log is enough for us to see what happened.