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Facebook Group

Extract a public Facebook group's metadata and recent feed: name, description, member count, post bodies, and reactions.

Use the JS token

Facebook scrapers work best with your JavaScript token. With the Normal token, content rendered after page load may not be captured.

API usage

Add &scraper=facebook-group to a Crawling API request. URL-encode the target URL in the url parameter.

curl 'https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN' \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/198722650913932' \
  --data-urlencode 'scraper=facebook-group' -G
from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI

api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'})
res = api.get(
    'https://www.facebook.com/groups/198722650913932',
    {'scraper': 'facebook-group'}
)

import json
data = json.loads(res['body'])
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase');
const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const res = await api.get(
  'https://www.facebook.com/groups/198722650913932',
  { scraper: 'facebook-group' }
);
const data = JSON.parse(res.body);
require 'crawlbase'
api = Crawlbase::API.new(token: 'YOUR_TOKEN')

res = api.get('https://www.facebook.com/groups/198722650913932', scraper: 'facebook-group')
data = JSON.parse(res.body)

Example input URL

The URL passed in the url parameter (URL-decoded for readability):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/198722650913932

Response shape

JSON response body. Field types may be null when the source page omits the value.

name
string
Group name.
description
string
Group description text.
members_count
integer
Number of members.
privacy
string
"Public" or "Private".
cover_image
string
Cover image URL.
posts
array
Recent posts.
posts[].author
string
Author display name.
posts[].body
string
Post text.
posts[].date
string
Posted-at.
posts[].reactions
integer
Total reactions.
posts[].comments_count
integer
Number of comments.

Sample response

{
  "name": "Crawlers and Scraping Enthusiasts",
  "description": "A community for web data professionals…",
  "members_count": 8472,
  "privacy": "Public",
  "posts": [
    {
      "author": "M. Chen",
      "body": "Anyone tried the new MCP-based agents?",
      "date": "2026-04-26",
      "reactions": 42,
      "comments_count": 12
    }
  ]
}