# kevinzg/facebook-scraper

Scrape Facebook public pages without an API key

Repository: https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/facebook-scraper
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: facebook, scraping, facebook-scraping, facebook-scraper, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2024-06-22T03:47:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2728, "days_push": 802, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3270, forks 792 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:53.071072+00:00)

## What it is
A Python library for scraping public Facebook pages, groups, profiles, and posts without requiring an API key. It provides a simple get_posts function with options for login credentials, cookies, pagination, and video extraction.

## Use cases
- scrape facebook page posts without an api key
- extract posts from a facebook group
- collect facebook post reactions and comments for research
- download facebook video content from posts
- fetch posts by post url or id
- monitor a public facebook profile's posts

## When to choose
- you need public Facebook data quickly without registering for API access
- you want a lightweight Python API rather than a full browser automation setup
- you need to scrape pages, groups, or individual posts with optional login via cookies or credentials

## When to avoid
- you need to scrape private content or content behind login walls you do not control
- you require a fully supported, actively maintained tool - Facebook markup changes frequently and the project's last release was mid-2024
- you need to comply strictly with Facebook's terms of service, which prohibit scraping

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, parser, http-client
- domain: crawlers, social-media, data-science, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: facebook, social-media-scraping, no-api-key, posts-extraction, mit-license

## Member repositories
- kevinzg/facebook-scraper (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:53.071072+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:23:09.235063+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:53.071072+00:00, sha d089ffac2288)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/facebook-scraper/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:36:32.644218+00:00, sha a34a07a3da3e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.