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Facebook Post

5 credits

Fetch a Facebook post with comments.

POST/api/v1/tools/facebook/post

Parameters

urlstringrequired

Full Facebook post URL (e.g. "https://www.facebook.com/openai/posts/pfbid0w96S8oxKwX").

maxCommentsnumber

Maximum number of comments to return. Must be a positive integer. Defaults to 200. Upper bound is determined by your plan.

Response Schema

dataobject

Facebook post result

postobject

Post metadata

commentsobject[]

Array of comment objects.

countnumber

Number of comments returned

totalCommentsnumber | null

Total comment count reported by Facebook

truncatedboolean

True if more comments exist than were returned. Only present when truncation occurred.

metaobject

Request metadata

toolstring

Tool name (facebook-post)

creditsUsednumber

Credits consumed (5)

requestIdstring

Unique request ID

Request

curl -X POST https://scraper.run/api/v1/tools/facebook/post \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sc_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/openai/posts/pfbid0w96S8oxKwX",
"maxComments": 50
}'

Response Example

{
"data": {
"post": {
"id": "pfbid0w96S8oxKwX",
"author": "OpenAI",
"text": "We are releasing a new set of research tools designed to help developers build safer AI systems. Read more about how these tools work.",
"createdAt": "2026-04-07T16:00:00.000Z",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/openai/posts/pfbid0w96S8oxKwX",
"reactions": 2340,
"shares": 412,
"comments": 187
},
"comments": [
{
"id": "cmt_fb_001",
"parentId": "pfbid0w96S8oxKwX",
"author": "Maria Lopez",
"text": "This is exactly what the developer community needs. Great work.",
"createdAt": "2026-04-07T16:30:00.000Z",
"reactions": 34
}
],
"count": 1,
"totalComments": 187,
"truncated": true
},
"meta": {
"tool": "facebook-post",
"creditsUsed": 5,
"requestId": "req_abc123"
}
}