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.
- target
- facebook.com
- anti-bot
- Meta bypass
- data source
- Public pages
Extract data in minutes.
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(); Start extracting facebook.com data in three steps.
Get an API key
Sign up free and a balance is credited to your account.
Configure the call
Set the target URL, output format, and rendering mode.
Get structured data
Clean JSON back in seconds, ready for your pipeline.
One endpoint for facebook.com.
Structured JSON from facebook.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.
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"}' 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()) 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); 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.
Fields you can pull.
Meta anti-bot bypass
Residential proxies and fingerprint rotation handle Meta's aggressive anti-scraping detection on Facebook.
React SPA rendering
Full browser rendering for Facebook's complex React interface, including lazy-loaded posts and comments.
Page & post data
Extract posts, engagement metrics, business info, events, and page metadata in structured JSON.
Why teams pick Spider for facebook.com.
Free balance on sign-up. No credit card required to test.
About $0.08 per 1,000 pages on a datacenter-proxy workload. No monthly minimum.
Top up once, use it whenever. Unused balance carries over forever.
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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Start scraping facebook.com.
Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.