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Facebook Scraping Tools Compared — Which One Should You Use in 2026?

If you need to scrape Facebook data, there are multiple tools available. But which one should you pick? I compared the top 8 options.

Tool Developer Rating Users Pricing
Facebook Posts Scraper Apify 4.6 84K Pay per event
Facebook Pages Scraper Apify 4.4 51K Pay per event
Facebook Comments Scraper Apify 4.7 34K Pay per event
Facebook Groups Scraper Apify 4.8 33K Pay per event
Facebook Ad Library Scraper Curious Coder 4.8 32K Pay per event
Facebook Ads Library Scraper Apify 2.4 26K Pay per event
Facebook Followers & Following Scraper Apify 4.5 13K Pay per event
Facebook Search Scraper Apify 4.9 10K Pay per event

Detailed Breakdown

1. Facebook Posts Scraper

Extract posts, videos, and engagement metrics from Facebook pages. Get text captions, reactions, video transcripts, images, external links, collaborators, and more from Facebook pages and profiles. Ex

  • Users: 84K
  • Rating: 4.6/5
  • Pricing: Pay per event

Try it on Apify

2. Facebook Pages Scraper

Extract basic data from multiple Facebook Pages or Profiles. Extract Facebook page details, website, email, address, messenger, likes, followers, rating, ad running status, and other public data. Expo

  • Users: 51K
  • Rating: 4.4/5
  • Pricing: Pay per event

Try it on Apify

3. Facebook Comments Scraper

Extract data from hundreds of Facebook comments from one or multiple Facebook posts. Get comment text, timestamp, likes count and basic commenter info. Download the data in JSON, CSV, Excel and use it

  • Users: 34K
  • Rating: 4.7/5
  • Pricing: Pay per event

Try it on Apify

4. Facebook Groups Scraper

Extract data from one or multiple public Facebook groups. Get group and post URLs, post text, comments, timestamp, likes and comments count, and basic commentator info. Download the data in JSON, CSV,

  • Users: 33K
  • Rating: 4.8/5
  • Pricing: Pay per event

Try it on Apify

5. Facebook Ad Library Scraper

Scrape facebook ads from ad library search results and ads run by facebook pages - Fast and lightweight. $0.75 per 1000 results

  • Users: 32K
  • Rating: 4.8/5
  • Pricing: Pay per event

Try it on Apify

6. Facebook Ads Library Scraper

Extract advertising data from Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, Messenger. Get ad details, publishers, prices, reach estimates, impressions, links, images, ad IDs, timestamps, and more from Meta

  • Users: 26K
  • Rating: 2.4/5
  • Pricing: Pay per event

Try it on Apify

7. Facebook Followers & Following Scraper

Extract data from Facebook pages and profiles about its followers and profiles it follows. Just enter the URL, and you'll get data such as follow type, profile's URL, image, title, and subtitle. You c

  • Users: 13K
  • Rating: 4.5/5
  • Pricing: Pay per event

Try it on Apify

8. Facebook Search Scraper

Extract Facebook search data from pages that match your search query. Get page URL, address, email, website, check-ins, creation date, ad status, category, follower count, messenger link. Export scrap

  • Users: 10K
  • Rating: 4.9/5
  • Pricing: Pay per event

Try it on Apify


All tools are available on Apify with $5/month in free credits for new accounts.

Full directory: 26,000+ tools on GitHub

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