What the Facebook Scraper API does and who it is for
The Facebook Scraper API is a hosted data extraction service that returns structured JSON from Facebook's public-facing surfaces: Marketplace, Pages, Groups, Posts, the search index, and the Meta Ads Library. Because the provider handles authentication and infrastructure, callers need neither a Facebook account nor their own proxy rotation.
The API sits at a 9.9 popularity score among more than 3,400 marketplace subscribers, which suggests broad adoption. The documented success rate is 100%, making it viable for production pipelines that need reliable data delivery. The one number worth internalizing early is average latency: 5,305 ms. That figure rules out synchronous, user-facing flows where sub-second responses matter, but it is workable for background jobs, scheduled scrapers, and async data pipelines.
The audience breakdown is essentially three groups: (1) e-commerce and dropshipping teams monitoring Marketplace pricing and inventory, (2) marketing and research teams pulling page/group engagement metrics or ad intelligence, and (3) SaaS developers building aggregators or competitive-intelligence dashboards.
Endpoint walkthrough
The 36 endpoints are organized into six groups. Here is what each group actually delivers.
Facebook Pages and Groups
The Pages group lets you resolve a page URL to its internal ID, fetch page metadata (follower counts, about info, verification status), and pull recent posts — up to three per request, paginated with end_cursor. Separate endpoints retrieve videos (up to six per call) and Reels (up to ten per call). The Groups group mirrors this structure: group ID resolution, metadata, member counts, creation date, and posts/videos with the same cursor-based pagination.
Post details and engagement
Seven endpoints cover individual posts. You can retrieve post metadata, fetch up to ten comments per call (with replies accessible via a second round-trip using comment_feedback_id and expansion_token returned by the comments endpoint), pull attachment details alongside full reaction breakdowns, and get extended post data that includes video URLs, music info, and author verification status. A dedicated video post endpoint returns title, description, duration, and real-time view count.
Search
Five endpoints expose Facebook's search index: pages, people, locations, videos, and posts. All accept a search query; the people, pages, posts, and videos endpoints also accept a location_uid and support end_cursor pagination. The location endpoint is specifically for resolving location names to UIDs that other search endpoints consume.
Facebook Marketplace
This is the feature set highlighted most prominently in the provider's marketing, and it has the richest endpoint count. Key calls:
- Marketplace search — filter by keyword, location, price range, date range, radius, category, and sort order.
- Listing detail — returns listing URL, primary photo, price, location, status, seller details, delivery options, and comparable listings.
- Seller detail — verification status, ratings, response times, and activity patterns given a seller ID.
- Categories — retrieves the full category taxonomy with
seo_urland category IDs for use as search filters. - City coordinates — resolves a city name to latitude/longitude for geographic filtering.
- Vehicles listings and rental property listings — dedicated endpoints for these two high-volume Marketplace verticals.
Media download
A single endpoint accepts a Facebook media URL and returns the underlying image, video, or audio file. Useful for archiving listing photos or post attachments without building your own media pipeline.
Meta Ads Library
Five endpoints (one available as both GET and POST) cover the public ad archive. You can list supported country codes, search for ad pages by name, retrieve detailed page-level ad metadata, look up a specific archived ad by its archive ID (with filters for country and political classification), and search ads by keyword with active/inactive status filtering. This group is useful for competitive ad intelligence and brand monitoring.
Pricing breakdown
| Plan | Price | Monthly requests | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASIC | $0 / month | 200 | — | — |
| PRO | $4.99 / month | 1,500 | 1 req/sec | — |
| ULTRA (recommended) | $49 / month | 30,000 | 5 req/sec | $0.0045 / request |
| MEGA | $179 / month | 120,000 | 10 req/sec | $0.0025 / request |
The BASIC tier's 200 monthly requests is genuinely thin — enough to evaluate endpoints and prototype, but not to run any recurring data collection. A single paginated Marketplace search that fans out into per-listing detail calls can exhaust 200 requests quickly.
PRO at $4.99/month raises the ceiling to 1,500 requests but caps throughput at one request per second. For background jobs that run infrequently — say, a nightly price check on a few hundred listings — this is workable. The 1 req/sec rate limit will serialize any concurrent calls, so design accordingly.
ULTRA is the inflection point the provider marks as recommended. At 30,000 requests and a 5 req/sec ceiling, it supports meaningful production workloads: roughly 1,000 requests per day with headroom. Overage is billed at $0.0045 per request, so unexpected spikes cost roughly $4.50 per additional 1,000 calls — predictable enough to budget around.
MEGA at $179/month targets high-frequency use: 120,000 requests is around 4,000 per day, and the 10 req/sec limit allows genuine parallel calling. Overage drops to $0.0025/request, which matters at scale.
Custom plans are available via the provider's Telegram channel for volume above MEGA or specialized infrastructure needs.
Practical use cases
Marketplace price monitoring. Use the Marketplace search endpoint to pull listings for a product category, then call listing detail on individual items to track price changes over time. The seller detail endpoint adds context about whether pricing differences correlate with seller reputation.
Ad competitive intelligence. The Meta Ads Library endpoints let you watch which creatives a competitor page is running, filter by country, and track active versus inactive campaigns — without needing access to Facebook's Ad Library UI.
Group and page analytics. Marketing teams can pull follower counts, post engagement (likes, shares, reactions, comments), and video view counts for owned or competitor pages on a scheduled basis.
Marketplace aggregator. The vehicle and rental endpoints, combined with city coordinate resolution and category IDs, provide the structured data needed to build a Marketplace aggregator or lead-generation tool for real estate and automotive verticals.
Limitations and things to check before integrating
Latency. The 5,305 ms average response time is the most important constraint to plan around. Any user-facing feature that calls this API synchronously will feel slow. Architect with async workers, queues, or caching.
Request depth of pagination. Most list endpoints return three to ten items per call and require a follow-up end_cursor call for more. A workflow that needs 100 listings across paginated results will consume many more requests than it might appear — factor this into plan selection.
Terms of service. Scraping Facebook data, even via a third-party API, operates in a legally and policy-sensitive area. Review your own application's compliance requirements before building production systems on this data.
No rate limit on BASIC. The BASIC plan lists no rate limit, but with only 200 requests per month the practical throughput ceiling is effectively zero for any ongoing workload.
Endpoint reliability. The reported 100% success rate is a strong signal, but always implement retry logic with exponential backoff in your integration — this is good practice regardless of provider claims.
Getting started
The API is available through a marketplace subscription. Activate the BASIC plan at no cost to explore the endpoint catalog and test response shapes before committing to a paid tier. Use the get_marketplace_categories and find_city_coordinates endpoints first — they return reference data (category IDs and lat/lng values) that feed into the search endpoints, so mapping those dependencies early saves rework. For support or custom plan inquiries, the provider offers direct contact via Telegram at @socialapis.
