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Gather insights and analyze trends on the largest social media platform.

What's Facebook

Originally designed for students, Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook is a social network designed to "connect" people to each other.

Facebook is the world’s largest social network. It has more than 2.85 billion users around the world, with an aging community where the youngest tend to abandon the social network to go to competing social networks.

With more than 10 years of existence, Facebook has become an essential Internet platform with a large and interesting database.

The idea is to establish contact with:

Close individuals (family, friends)
People with whom you may have lost touch over time (elementary school, middle school, high school, college, etc.)
People who share similar interests.

Facebook has also become a massive advertising platform from which businesses also benefit. In summary, we could say that Facebook allows the following actions:

Displaying the user's attitude
Posting photos, entire albums, and videos
Sharing news with interesting content for the user or their community
Playing with friends or other users
Creating or joining groups or communities of people with similar interests
Establishing new connections with people who share similar concerns
Creating polls to study a topic
Exchanging in real-time with other users.

Today, Facebook is the largest social network in the world, with over one billion users worldwide.

The Facebook web scraping API has been built to automatically collect the data you want from Facebook profiles and organization pages, without getting blocked.

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Facebook Profile

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Facebook Posts

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Facebook marketplace search

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Facebook profile

Our Facebook web scraping API allows you to extract data from Facebook profile pages.

Enter a Facebook profile URL and collect the data you need from it:

URL
Profile picture URL
Profile name
Verified profiles
Profile type
Likes
Followers

Last posts:

Sponsored or not
Post date
Text
ID
URL
Likes
Comments
Shares
Top comments

Scraped page

Below is an image of a Facebook page.

On the page that we're scraping, you can see plenty of data, such as post content, engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares), user profiles, and more, that is returned in the JSON below:

JSON data

You will find below the JSON file we return in relation to the URL

[
  {
      "owner_url": "https://www.facebook.com/ESAThomasPesquet",
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/ESAThomasPesquet/posts/469151251249512",
      "name": "Thomas Pesquet",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "date": "2021-12-15T19:52:17.000Z",
      "post_text": "Une pose longue de 45 secondes pour prendre cette photo. La Lune qui brille à travers les panneaux solaires et le style presque victorien du module russe MLM ajoutent à l'ambiance de science-fiction. A long exposure night shot, up to a minute shutter speed using a remote cable shutter. The Moon shining through the solar panels and the MLM module adds to the sci-fi feeling. #MissionAlpha https://flic.kr/p/2mQWpv6",
      "media_url": "https://scontent-man2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/266419899_469150804582890_4756844017217203100_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=36a2c1&_nc_ohc=7KM92e2ofy4AX_CKaGV&_nc_ht=scontent-man2-1.xx&oh=00_AfCHLsHJ0-pWKseREe6fL28bOqg7c51z5daGjhadpcSMxw&oe=644B4AEC",
      "likes": 9900,
      "shares": 0,
      "num_comments": 357,
      "scrape_time": "2023-04-24T07:10:18.591Z",
      "comments": [
          {
              "author_name": "Marie France Journeaux",
              "author_handle": "mariefrance.journeaux.3",
              "text": "Elle est surréaliste cette photo ‼️🤩",
              "created": "2021-12-15T22:00:13.000Z"
          },
          {
              "author_name": "Jocelyne L'Hermitte Casiez",
              "text": "Merci encore pour tous vos partages ... c est super génial de pouvoir voir tt ça ! On ne s en lasse pas .  Merci Merci..😍🥰 un vrai bonheur de nous faire rêver ds cette période si stressante sur terre . !",
              "created": "2021-12-15T21:18:04.000Z"
          },
          {
              "author_name": "Monique Monard",
              "text": "Merci Thomas de continuer à nous envoyer ces magnifiques vues. Bon courage pour vos réunions et tests divers .",
              "created": "2021-12-15T20:35:12.000Z"
          },
          {
              "author_name": "Chez Claude Benet Augustin",
              "author_handle": "claude.augustin.14",
              "text": "Serait ce une manière détournée de nous chuchoter  à l’oreille ta prochaine sélection pour ton séjour sur la Lune 🙄🤔😉 on croise les doigts pour que ton rêve se réalise 🌜🌝🌛",
              "created": "2021-12-15T21:50:07.000Z"
          }
      ],
      "video_views": ""
  }
]

With our Facebook scraper, you can collect data from various types of pages, including user profiles, groups, events, and marketplace listings. Retrieve details like post content, engagement metrics, user information, and more. For more information about this scraper, visit our dedicated page

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