Facebook Profile Scraper (Private & Public)

🤖 What does this Actor do?

The Facebook Profile Scraper enables you to extract posts from Facebook profiles. This includes:

• 💬 Post text and metadata
• 📷 Images and videos
• 👤 Author details
• 💬 Comments and replies (optional)
• ❤️ Reactions (optional)
• 👀 People tagged in the post (optional)
• 🌐 Translations to English (optional)

💡 Why scrape Facebook Profiles?

Facebook profiles contain a wealth of information useful for:

• 📊 Market research and audience analysis
• 🌍 Social media trend analysis
• 💬 Sentiment analysis of public discussions
• 📑 Archiving and research purposes

⚡ How to scrape Facebook Profiles

🔍 Prerequisites

You will need to provide your own Facebook session cookies. Follow the steps below to export your cookies.

🗂 Exporting Cookies (Using Cookie-Editor Extension)

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Install the Cookie-Editor Chrome extension.
3. Go to Facebook and log into your account.
4. Change the language to English (if not already).
5. Click the Cookie-Editor extension in your browser.
6. Click Export to download your cookies as a JSON file.
7. Copy the JSON content and provide it in the cookies field when running the scraper.

💧 Running the Scraper

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter the URLs of the Facebook profiles you want to scrape.
3. Paste your exported cookies in the cookies field.
4. Set the number of posts to scrape (maxItems).
5. (Optional) Enable scraping of comments, replies, shares, reactions, and tagged people.
6. Click Run.

📂 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
urls	array	List of Facebook profile URLs to scrape (required).
cookies	array	JSON exported from Cookie-Editor containing authentication cookies.
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of posts to scrape (default: 10).
endDate	string	Scrape posts until this date (format: YYYY-MM-DD).
comments	boolean	Scrape comments (default: false).
replies	boolean	Scrape replies to comments (default: false).
shares	boolean	Scrape shares (default: false).
reactions	boolean	Scrape reactions (default: false).
peopleWith	boolean	Scrape people tagged in posts (default: false).
translations	boolean	Translate posts and comments to English (default: false).
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings (Apify Residential Proxy recommended).

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Enabling comments, replies, shares, reactions, and peopleWith may significantly increase the runtime.

Example Input:

1{
2  "urls": ["https://www.facebook.com/zuck"],
3  "cookies": [
4    { "name": "c_user", "value": "123456", "domain": ".facebook.com" }
5  ],
6  "maxItems": 20,
7  "comments": true,
8  "reactions": true,
9  "proxyConfiguration": {
10    "useApifyProxy": true,
11    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
12  }
13}

📊 Output Example

1{
2  "id": "1234567890",
3  "attached_id": "",
4  "pinned": false,
5  "created_at": "2024-02-01T12:34:56Z",
6  "permalink": "https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/1234567890",
7  "author": {
8    "id": "123456",
9    "name": "Mark Zuckerberg",
10    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/zuck",
11    "image": "https://example.com/avatar.jpg"
12  },
13  "message": "Hello, world!",
14  "translation": "",
15  "comment_count": 5,
16  "reaction_count": 20,
17  "share_count": 3,
18  "comments": [
19    {
20      "id": "987654321",
21      "author": { "id": "654321", "name": "John Doe" },
22      "message": "Great post!",
23      "created_at": "2024-02-01T13:00:00Z"
24    }
25  ],
26  "images": [{ "id": "img1", "url": "https://example.com/image.jpg" }],
27  "videos": [{ "id": "vid1", "url": "https://example.com/video.mp4" }],
28  "links": ["https://example.com"],
29  "reactions": [
30    { "author": { "id": "999999", "name": "Jane Doe" }, "reaction_id": "like" }
31  ],
32  "profile_url": "https://www.facebook.com/zuck",
33  "profile_name": "Mark Zuckerberg"
34}

🚀 Proxy Recommendations

Using Apify Residential Proxy is recommended to avoid detection and IP blocking when scraping Facebook. Set up proxy settings under proxyConfiguration.

⚖️ Legal Considerations

Scraping Facebook is subject to Facebook's Terms of Service. You should ensure that you have the legal right to scrape any data and comply with all relevant laws and regulations.

🛠️ Troubleshooting

• Double-check cookie and proxy settings.
• Refresh cookies frequently to avoid being blocked.
• Ensure you have access to the Facebook profiles you are scraping.
• Monitor logs for error messages.
• Open an issue if you encounter any problems.

Happy Scraping! 🚀