Scrape Facebook Groups Data such as likes, URLs, posts, comments, members, and other fields using Facebook Groups Data Scraper. Use the scraper by the leading Web Scraping Services service provider in Canada, France, Australia, Germany, the USA, the UK, Spain, and other countries.
It is a robust data scraping tool that permits you to compile publicly available Facebook Groups data. You can get the required data by inserting the URL of the group page and clicking the Save and Start button.
Using this Facebook data scraper API, you can collect data for the following Facebook data points.
Crawling Facebook groups with public access can help you with automated data extraction and assist you in
We've designed a simple Facebook Groups Scraper to start if you are just entering into data scraping. Check the below steps to scrape Facebook Groups using this API.
If you want to learn about the process of using this scraper, check out our stepwise tutorial.
As the name suggests, a private Facebook group is invisible to everyone. A group admin manages it and approves new joining and posting. Whereas it is not the case with public Facebook groups. Anyone can join and post anything on the public group without permission from the admin.
You should feed links of Publicly available Facebook groups in the input field of this scraper to scrape the data from groups. To check the complete description of the input example, visit the input tab and see the JSON example.
{
"persistCookiesPerSession": false,
"proxy": {
"useRealdataAPIProxy": true,
"RealdataAPIProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
]
},
"resultsLimit": 1000,
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/germtheory.vs.terraintheory"
}
],
"useSessionPool": true,
"viewOption": "",
"maxRequestRetries": 10
}
...
You can check the dataset with wrapped output in the Storage tab. If you apply the above input parameters, you'll get the below sample output.
Additionally, check the JSON output here. You can choose the format in which you want the scraped data out HTML, XML, CSV, Excel, JSON, etc.
[
{
"facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/germtheory.vs.terraintheory",
"id": "UzpfSTEwMDAzOTAzNTk1NjYzNDpWSzo2MjY1OTkyNTE2ODExMDM3",
"feedbackId": "ZmVlZGJhY2s6NjI2NTk5MjUxNjgxMTAzNw==",
"user": {
"id": "pfbid0KXyYXC9nmsqUhrg2btvzvVRpNmUjdfriBFigztn7XNhE1hWVHzuigPX9nqpxu3u6l",
"name": "Ryan Paps",
"profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/ryan.paps.94",
"profilePic": "https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/227521685_528650028446191_6241547349257445408_n.jpg?stp=cp0_dst-jpg_p40x40&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7206a8&_nc_ohc=4rKnQxOvOtoAX-l4ENT&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=00_AfCkHM1vmLSZza_L0KEQHJcanCvo0bz7AENHHzXlHik2gQ&oe=64332818"
},
"date": "2023-03-23T13:51:14.000Z",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/germtheory.vs.terraintheory/posts/6265992516811037/",
"text": "Lets say someone has 3 months to live with cancer. What immediate advice would you give them to implement right away to prolong their existence",
"attachments": [
{
"__typename": "Photo",
"photo_image": {
"uri": "https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/337400651_588356273005165_4266624846195676380_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p180x540&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=oWx0CT6rvxwAX-D_p1v&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=00_AfDF-c31knpZbveCFrHzeFWQ7y7F36LlOHKf2ulqAEZb2w&oe=6433DA59",
"height": 540,
"width": 810
},
"__isMedia": "Photo",
"accent_color": "FF665254",
"photo_product_tags": [],
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=916459069665283&set=gm.6265992516811037&type=3",
"id": "916459069665283",
"ocrText": "May be a closeup of flower"
}
],
"likesCount": 72,
"commentsCount": 100,
"comments": [
{
"id": "Y29tbWVudDo2MjY1OTkyNTE2ODExMDM3XzYzMDUyMDMzNTk1NTY2MTk=",
"feedbackId": "ZmVlZGJhY2s6NjI2NTk5MjUxNjgxMTAzN182MzA1MjAzMzU5NTU2NjE5",
"date": "2023-04-06T04:16:55.000Z",
"text": "Change your diet, but don’t believe that a diet alone is going to save your life. Explore other holistic options in the process.",
"profilePicture": "https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/328235070_1389922131784056_6443811810941213910_n.jpg?stp=c0.0.32.32a_cp0_dst-jpg_p32x32&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7206a8&_nc_ohc=Zjum7_vSimEAX8kDpUN&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=00_AfAIK9msGXBv2KyocehWtPbmVH2a-SZjxppwxbyU66OFnA&oe=6434432E",
"likesCount": 0
},
{
"id": "Y29tbWVudDo2MjY1OTkyNTE2ODExMDM3XzYzMDUwNzcyMjYyMzU4OTk=",
"feedbackId": "ZmVlZGJhY2s6NjI2NTk5MjUxNjgxMTAzN182MzA1MDc3MjI2MjM1ODk5",
"date": "2023-04-06T03:10:30.000Z",
"text": "I am sure that Syd Barnes could say a few things about that subject…",
"profilePicture": "https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/299287659_10223367875533870_5249827628604891044_n.jpg?stp=cp0_dst-jpg_p32x32&_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7206a8&_nc_ohc=nZW0GCg_IHwAX_GsxPu&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=00_AfCSjPhB_RJYVsqaqBRbbnMpsJ44qrX1pmsQyjTysIjLdA&oe=643354A4",
"likesCount": 0
}
]
...
If you use this actor to scrape Facebook groups on the Real Data API platform, you should use residential proxy servers from our monthly personal plan of 49 USD.
To know more about platform credits, the working of our pricing, usage, and proxy servers, check the pricing page or watch the video tutorial.
We have dedicated scrapers for multiple data fields if you want to extract specific data from Facebook. Be it comments, posts, photos, events, or reviews, we have scrapers for each; check the list below to explore them.
Lastly, you can connect Facebook Groups Scraper with any web application or cloud service using Real Data API integrations. You have multiple options to integrate Scraper, including Zapier, Asana, GitHub, Make, Airbyte, Slack, Google Drive, Google Sheets, and more.
Further, you can use Webhooks to carry out event occurrence actions, like getting an alert once the scraper completes the execution successfully.
The Real Data API platform gives you programmatic access to use scrapers. We have organized the Facebook Groups API around RESTful HTTP endpoints to allow you to schedule, manage, and execute it. It also allows you to monitor scraper performance, access datasets, update and create versions, retrieve outputs, and more. To use the scraper using Python, try out the client PyPl package, and to use it using Node.js, try our client NPM package. For complete details, check out the API tab and explore code examples.
Scraping data with ethics is our topmost priority, with user privacy. Therefore our scrapers don't scrape private data like location, email ids, or gender. But, there may be a case with unwanted personal data in output sometimes. We recommend you not scrape any personal information without any genuine reason.
You can consult your lawyers for advice if you are unaware of whether you have a genuine reason.
We always work to improve our scraper performances. Therefore, if you want to suggest something in the performance, improvement, or anything else you want to suggest, contact us, or create an issue using the Issue tab in the Real Data API console.
You should have a Real Data API account to execute the program examples. Replace < YOUR_API_TOKEN > in the program using the token of your actor. Read about the live APIs with Real Data API docs for more explanation.
import { RealdataAPIClient } from 'RealdataAPI-Client';
// Initialize the RealdataAPIClient with API token
const client = new RealdataAPIClient({
token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});
// Prepare actor input
const input = {
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/viewfrommywindow"
}
],
"resultsLimit": 20,
"proxy": {
"useRealdataAPIProxy": true,
"RealdataAPIProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
]
}
};
(async () => {
// Run the actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("RealdataAPI/facebook-groups-scraper").call(input);
// Fetch and print actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
console.dir(item);
});
})();
from RealdataAPI_client import RealdataAPIClient
# Initialize the RealdataAPIClient with your API token
client = RealdataAPIClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
# Prepare the actor input
run_input = {
"startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/viewfrommywindow" }],
"resultsLimit": 20,
"proxy": {
"useRealdataAPIProxy": True,
"RealdataAPIProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
},
}
# Run the actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("RealdataAPI/facebook-groups-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)
# Set API token
API_TOKEN=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>
# Prepare actor input
cat > input.json <<'EOF'
{
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/viewfrommywindow"
}
],
"resultsLimit": 20,
"proxy": {
"useRealdataAPIProxy": true,
"RealdataAPIProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
]
}
}
EOF
# Run the actor
curl "https://api.RealdataAPI.com/v2/acts/RealdataAPI~facebook-groups-scraper/runs?token=$API_TOKEN" /
-X POST /
-d @input.json /
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'
startUrls
Required Array
Enter the valid link to Facebook group data. Remember that you can only extract data from public groups.
resultsLimit
Optional Integer
If you don't set the limit, you will only get the initial page in the result.
viewOption
Optional String
Select the post sorting
"Recent",
"Activity",
"Ranked",
"Thread",
"Ranked", Unfiltered.
proxy
Required Object
You should use the proxy server to use this scraper. There are two options to use proxies - use a residential proxy from the Real Data API server, or try your own proxy. You can't use data center proxy servers.
maxRequestRetries
Optional Integer
maxConcurrency
useSessionPool
Optional Boolean
persistCookiesPerSession
Optional Boolean
{
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/viewfrommywindow"
}
],
"resultsLimit": 20,
"viewOption": "",
"proxy": {
"useRealdataAPIProxy": true,
"RealdataAPIProxyGroups": [
"RESIDENTIAL"
]
},
"maxRequestRetries": 10,
"persistCookiesPerSession": false,
"useSessionPool": true
}
Disclaimer : Real Data API only extracts publicly available data while maintaining a strict policy against collecting any personal or identity-related information.
