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Facebook Scraper API

Extract public page posts, event data, business info, and community content from Facebook. Stealth browsing handles Meta's aggressive anti-scraping measures. Built on spider-browser .

Facebook remains the largest social network with billions of public business pages, community groups, and event listings. Spider uses stealth browsing to render Facebook's React interface and extract structured data from public pages.

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target
facebook.com
anti-bot
Meta bypass
data source
Public pages
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

facebook-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.facebook.com/NASA/");
await page.content(12000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const posts = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("[role='article']").forEach(el => {
    const text = el.querySelector("[data-ad-preview='message']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const time = el.querySelector("abbr")?.getAttribute("title");
    if (text) posts.push({ text: text.slice(0, 500), time });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: posts.length, posts: posts.slice(0, 5) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();
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How it works

Start extracting facebook.com data in three steps.

01

Get an API key

Sign up free and a balance is credited to your account.

02

Configure the call

Set the target URL, output format, and rendering mode.

03

Get structured data

Clean JSON back in seconds, ready for your pipeline.

Fetch API

One endpoint for facebook.com.

Structured JSON from facebook.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/facebook.com/
Post textLikesCommentsSharesAuthorTimestamp
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/facebook.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
Python
import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/facebook.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())
Node.js
const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/facebook.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);
Use cases

What teams build with facebook.com data.

Brand Monitoring

Track public mentions, reviews, and customer feedback across Facebook business pages and community groups.

Event Discovery

Aggregate public events by location, category, or date to build event listing platforms and calendars.

Competitive Analysis

Monitor competitor page activity, posting frequency, and engagement patterns on public business pages.

Local Business Data

Extract business profiles, hours, contact info, and reviews from Facebook business pages for directory enrichment.

Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Post textLikesCommentsSharesAuthorTimestampMediaPage name
Stealth

Meta anti-bot bypass

Residential proxies and fingerprint rotation handle Meta's aggressive anti-scraping detection on Facebook.

Rendering

React SPA rendering

Full browser rendering for Facebook's complex React interface, including lazy-loaded posts and comments.

Data

Page & post data

Extract posts, engagement metrics, business info, events, and page metadata in structured JSON.

Why Spider

Why teams pick Spider for facebook.com.

Pricing
$0 to start

Free balance on sign-up. No credit card required to test.

Scale
Pay per page

About $0.08 per 1,000 pages on a datacenter-proxy workload. No monthly minimum.

Balance
Never expires

Top up once, use it whenever. Unused balance carries over forever.

Common questions

Scraping facebook.com.

Can I scrape Facebook without an account?

Spider extracts data from public Facebook pages, business profiles, and events that are visible without logging in.

How does Spider bypass Facebook anti-bot?

Spider uses residential proxies, browser fingerprint rotation, and full Chrome rendering to navigate Facebook's anti-scraping defenses.

What Facebook data can I extract?

Public posts, page names, likes, comments, shares, timestamps, media, event details, business info, and page metadata.

Can I scrape Facebook Marketplace?

Spider can access publicly visible Marketplace listings, though availability varies by region and listing visibility settings.

Related

More Social scrapers.

Start

Start scraping facebook.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.