Facebook Search Scraper

🔎 Facebook Search Scraper

Search Facebook by keyword and get public results as structured data: posts with reactions and comment counts, pages, places, or all of them at once. No login and no cookies. $0.003 per result, which is $3 per 1,000.

✨ Why use Facebook Search Scraper?

• 🔓 No login needed — works on the public search results, so there is no account or cookie to manage.
• 🗂️ Four search modes — posts, pages, places, or a global search across them.
• 💬 Engagement included — reaction split (like, love, haha, ...), comment count, and share count on every post.
• 🕒 Recent and dated — sort posts by most recent and cut them to a date window.
• 🧼 Capped and deduplicated — you get at most the number of results you ask for, without repeats.
• 💸 Low price — a flat $0.003 per saved result, about 39% under the free-plan price of the actor this one replaces for the same job.

🎯 Use cases

• 📈 Social listening — follow what people post about your brand, product, or topic.
• 🧭 Trend research — compare engagement across posts for a keyword.
• 🏪 Local discovery — find pages and places matching a keyword in a given city.
• 🤝 Lead generation — build a list of pages that talk about a niche.
• 🎓 Academic and market research — collect public posts in a date window.

🚀 How to use

1. Type a Search query, the same text you would put in Facebook search.
2. Choose a Search type: Posts, Pages, Places, or Global.
3. Set Maximum results (default 10).
4. Optionally tick Recent posts, add a Location, or set a date window.
5. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

📥 Input

{
  "query": "Mausritter",
  "search_type": "posts",
  "max_posts": 10,
  "recent_posts": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useScrapelyProxy": true,
    "scrapelyProxyGroups": ["DATACENTER"]
  }
}

📤 Output

Post results include:

Page and place searches return a row per page or place with its name and details. Example post (trimmed):

{
  "post_id": "122121471735295264",
  "type": "post",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0o43JUZ...&id=61588857940219",
  "message": "Hey everyone! We are opening our mobile coffee trailer next month. Stay tuned for updates. ...",
  "timestamp": 1791414785,
  "comments_count": 56,
  "reactions_count": 1974,
  "reshare_count": 52,
  "reactions": { "angry": 2, "care": 11, "haha": 1, "like": 1429, "love": 531, "sad": 0, "wow": 0 },
  "author": {
    "id": "100000000000001",
    "name": "Example Coffee Co.",
    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/people/Example-Coffee-Co/100000000000001/"
  },
  "image": { "height": 1440, "width": 1080, "id": "122121471507295264" },
  "video": null
}

💰 Pricing

$0.003 per result saved ($3 per 1,000 results). Platform usage is billed on top at standard rates: compute $0.30 per GB-hour and datacenter proxy $1 per GB.

Worked example: 10 results cost 10 × $0.003 = $0.03 in result fees. In our measured run, compute and proxy traffic added about $0.0035, so the job came to about $0.033.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Facebook search?

The actor only reads results that Facebook shows to logged-out visitors. Check Facebook's terms and privacy laws such as GDPR for your use case, especially for personal data in posts.

Do I need a login or a proxy?

No login. Datacenter proxies are used by default and billed per GB. Residential is optional.

How many results can I get?

As many as you set, until Facebook has no more results. Facebook ends a logged-out search after a few hundred results, and returns fewer for narrow queries.

What if a field is empty?

Fields such as video or external_url are null when the post has no such attachment.

Can I schedule it or call it from the API?

Yes. Use Schedules for recurring runs, or start it through the REST API and read the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

⚠️ Limits

• Public results only. It does not scrape a specific page's post feed or a post's comments.
• Date filters and Recent posts apply to posts and global search, not to pages and places.
• Location is passed to Facebook as a filter string, not resolved to a city id, so matching depends on Facebook.
• Media links point to Facebook's CDN and their hosts can differ between runs.
• Video file URLs are filled only when Facebook sends them.
• Facebook ends a logged-out search after a few hundred results. In tests one keyword returned about 90 to 330 posts, 620 to 820 pages, and 160 places, with a limit of 1,000. The run stops cleanly and its status says Facebook returned no more results.