Best Facebook scrapers in 2026

A Facebook scraper is a tool that collects public Facebook data such as page details, posts, comments, Marketplace listings or ads, and returns it in a structured format. The thing a buyer must know first is that Facebook shows most content to logged-in users only, so what any scraper can reach is narrower than what you see in your own feed.

In our database, three vendors list Facebook coverage: Crawlbase (a Facebook scraper inside its Crawling API), SerpApi (Facebook Profile and Marketplace APIs) and Apify (a Facebook Posts Scraper actor, made by Apify). We do not list coverage for any other vendor, and our Facebook scrapers ranking only includes those that name Facebook on their own site.

A facebook marketplace scraper is available through at least one vendor in our data: SerpApi lists a Facebook Marketplace API. Marketplace is tied to a location and a search, so the useful unit is a query for a place and a category, not a crawl of the whole site.

SerpApi bills per search, with plans from $25/mo and free monthly searches, which fits a price-monitoring job where you check the same queries on a schedule. Expect to test how many listings one search returns, how fresh they are and whether the fields you need (price, location, seller type) are present. A facebook marketplace scraper github project is the cheaper route but tends to break when markup changes, and it may need a logged-in session, which raises account risk.

A facebook posts scraper collects the public posts of a page, and in our data that is covered by Apify's Facebook Posts Scraper actor, which is made by Apify. Comments are a separate matter: our table does not list a vendor for a dedicated facebook comment scraper, so confirm it on the vendor's own site before you plan around it.

A facebook group scraper cannot ethically or reliably reach private groups, because their content is visible only to members. Meta's terms restrict automated collection, and the people in a private group posted with an expectation of limited audience.

Even public groups often show little without a login, and tools that ask for your credentials put your account at risk. Our criteria card says private profiles and groups are out of scope for compliant tools, and we agree. If you need group insights, consider asking the group admin for permission or using Meta's own tools for pages you manage. Terms of service and privacy laws apply, differ by country, and a lawyer is the right person to ask for business use.

A facebook ad library scraper works on the public Ad Library, which Meta publishes so that anyone can look up ads without logging in, and that is the most open Facebook dataset for competitive research. Facebook ads scraper tools collect those public ad listings, such as the ad text, creative and running dates.

Our data does not list a vendor with a dedicated Ad Library endpoint, so check each tool's own page before you assume it. Meta also offers its own access to some ad data, and its coverage varies by region and ad type. For competitor research, a manual review of a short list of advertisers is often enough before you automate anything.

A facebook scraper python library is the cheapest start, but it is the least stable option, because Facebook changes its pages often and blocks unlogged-in automation quickly. Check the last commit date and open issues before you depend on one.

A facebook url scraper takes a list of page or post URLs and returns data for each, which is the easiest job to test: give it 50 URLs and count how many come back complete. A facebook email scraper is different: emails appear only when a business chose to show them on its public page, and using them for outreach is covered by anti-spam and privacy rules. A facebook data scraper that promises emails from private profiles is a red flag, not a feature.

Start by writing down the dataset you need (page posts, Marketplace listings or ads), because only some of our vendors cover each one. Posts point to Apify, Marketplace and profiles to SerpApi, and a general API route to Crawlbase.

Then run the same 20 public URLs or queries on two tools, count complete results and divide the bill by them. That is your cost per thousand posts, and the table cannot compute it for you. For wider options, see our best scraping APIs. If your goal is to manage several accounts you are authorised to run, rather than collect data, a different category applies: antidetect browsers for Facebook.