Facebook Reels Scraper

Facebook Reels Scraper: every reel a public Page has posted, not just the visible ten

Give it Page links and you get their reels back, newest first: the reel link, the video file, the thumbnail, the caption and hashtags, the length, the posting time and the counts underneath.

The Reels tab on a Page shows ten and stops. This keeps going, up to 200 per Page. The honest part is the counts: reactions and comments come back exact, while views and shares are rounded by Facebook before anyone can read them, so 65K is as precise as the public page gets.

🔍 What Facebook Reels Scraper does

It opens the Page's Reels tab as a signed-out visitor sees it, takes the first batch out of the data already in the page, then pages for the rest until it reaches your limit or the Page runs out.

The same reel found through two spellings of the same Page is delivered once and charged once, keyed on the Page and reel ids together. Hashtags are pulled out of the caption for you, without the #.

Give it the Page, not a single reel. A /reel/<id> link on its own is rejected with an explanation, because there is no Page in it to walk.

📥 What you give it

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.facebook.com/9gag"],
  "resultsLimit": 50,
  "onlyPostsNewerThan": "30 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 preview link trimmed:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "reel",
  "inputUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/9gag",
  "pageName": "9GAG",
  "pageId": "100064681269092",
  "pageUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/9gag/",
  "pageIsVerified": true,
  "reelId": "1613424853508131",
  "reelUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1613424853508131",
  "postId": "1566435732189121",
  "videoUrl": "https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/lookaside/crawler/media/?media_id=1613424853508131",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/lookaside/crawler/media/?media_id=1613424853508131&get_thumbnail=1",
  "previewImageUrl": "https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/806072546_158021194...",
  "caption": "\"not you!\" #9gag #blackdog",
  "captionLength": 26,
  "hashtags": ["9gag", "blackdog"],
  "time": "2026-09-20T23:33:01.000Z",
  "timestamp": 1789947181,
  "viewCount": 65000,
  "viewCountText": "65K",
  "reactionsCount": 1226,
  "commentsCount": 17,
  "sharesCount": 49,
  "sharesCountText": "49",
  "durationMs": 26965,
  "durationSeconds": 26.965,
  "width": 1080,
  "height": 1920,
  "aspectRatio": 0.5625,
  "audioTitle": "9GAG · Original audio",
  "audioIsOriginal": true,
  "isReshare": false,
  "isSponsored": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T01:25:04.740Z"
}

🧾 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, the links and the caption, so the posting time, the counts and the duration read as missing there. Open the row or download the JSON and they are all present.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Facebook Reels Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Put your Pages into Facebook Page URLs, one per line. 3. Set Reels per Page. Start at 50 and raise it once you have seen 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?

$0.35 per 1,000 reels. The same rate on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay for reels that come back with data. The sample row, every diagnostic row, reels dropped by your date filters and the same reel reached twice through two spellings of a Page are not charged, and neither is a Page with no reels on it.

💡 What people use it for

• Watching what a competitor is shipping to Reels each week, with view counts attached.
• Finding the format that travels: sort a Page's 200 newest reels by viewCount and look at

durationSeconds on the top ten.

• Building a caption and hashtag set from Pages in one niche, ready for a spreadsheet.
• Keeping an archive of your own Page's reels, thumbnails and video links included.

🚧 What it does not do

• Views and shares are rounded. 65K is what Facebook publishes, so 65000 is what you get.

Reactions and comments are exact.

• No comment text. You get the comment count. The comments themselves are a separate Actor,

linked below.

• Public Pages only. Private, age-restricted and country-restricted Pages show a signed-out

visitor nothing, and come back as an uncharged diagnostic row.

• A reel with no date on it stays in. If Facebook publishes no timestamp for a reel, a date

window cannot judge it, so it is delivered and charged. Those rows sort last, after every dated reel that matched.

• 200 reels per Page. Past that the Page stops paging for a signed-out reader.
• The video link can expire or refuse a browser. Fetch the file if you want to keep it.
• Nothing is translated. Captions come back in the language they were 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 scrape one reel by its link? Not here. Give the Page it sits on and filter the rows.

Why is viewCount a round number? Because viewCountText is, and that display string is the only play count Facebook publishes. Nobody can give you the exact figure from a public page.

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

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.