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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. Powered by 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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facebook.com target
Meta bypass anti-bot
Public pages data source
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 3 steps

01

Get your API key

Sign up for free and get 1,000 credits instantly.

02

Configure your scrape

Set your target URL, output format, and stealth level.

03

Extract structured data

Get clean JSON back in seconds — ready for your pipeline.

Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from facebook.com with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

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 people 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.

Start extracting facebook.com data today

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Extraction

Data you can extract

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 choose Spider for facebook.com

$0 to start

Free tier with 1,000 credits. No credit card required to get started.

No rate limits

Scale to millions of pages. Pay only for what you use.

Credits never expire

Unlike competitors, unused credits roll over indefinitely.

FAQ

Common questions about 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.

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