Why You Need a Facebook Groups API
Facebook groups are a gold mine for niche conversations online. Whether it's fitness, crypto, parenting, SaaS, or real estate there’s a Facebook group full of your exact target audience. But good luck getting data out of it.
Until now.
Introducing the Facebook Groups API
Our Facebook Groups API lets you scrape public group posts and comments programmatically, no browser automation or sketchy workarounds.
✅ Get the latest posts from any public group
✅ Pull all comments from a specific post
✅ Extremely fast and easy to use
✅ Designed for high-volume scraping
This is simple API built for devs and data teams.
What You Can Do With It
1. Lead Generation
Find Facebook posts where people are asking for recommendations, then offer your service or put leads into your CRM.
2. Market Research
Analyze the language your customers use. Scrape posts + comments, summarize sentiment, identify recurring pain points, or categorize discussion topics with ChatGPT or another LLM.
3. Competitor Intel
See what people are saying about your competitors in niche Facebook groups. Are people complaining? Loving certain features? You'll know.
4. Trendspotting
Track what’s trending inside communities before it breaks out. See what new product ideas or tools people are talking about, straight from the source.
How to Use the Facebook Groups API
Using the API is dead simple, here’s how you can get started in just a few lines of code.
Step 1: Get Your API Key
Sign up and automatically get an API Key
Step 2: Grab Posts from a Public Group
Lets say we want to get the posts and some of the comments from the Dad Jokes Facebook Group.
Just grab the link to the group, and make a GET request to the API (docs link)
https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/facebook/group/posts?url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/1158298182085866/
Make sure include your API key as a x-api-key header.
The response will look something like this:
{
"success": true,
"posts": [
{
"id": "1438015034114178",
"text": "Being kissed while you are asleep is one of the purest forms of love ❤️...\n\nUnless you are in prison. 😲",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/1158298182085866/permalink/1438015034114178/",
"author": {
"__typename": "User",
"name": "Michael Schilling",
"short_name": "Michael",
"id": "100038394010548"
},
"reactionCount": 60,
"commentCount": 5,
"videoViewCount": null,
"videoDetails": {},
"topComments": [
{
"id": "Y29tbWVudDoxNDM4MDE1MDM0MTE0MTc4XzE0MzgwMjM3NDA3Nzk5NzQ=",
"text": "An oldie but a goodie!",
"publishTime": 1752361383,
"author": {
"id": "pfbid037bB2gKF8EU4LC6C9eF9rn8UM9UMpCUxMwGRMvftsKCLrGykg5mDApRoThBrRBaU9l",
"name": "Rick Gondeck",
"gender": "MALE",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Gondeck/pfbid037bB2gKF8EU4LC6C9eF9rn8UM9UMpCUxMwGRMvftsKCLrGykg5mDApRoThBrRBaU9l/"
}
},
{
"id": "Y29tbWVudDoxNDM4MDE1MDM0MTE0MTc4XzE0MzgwMjUwNDA3Nzk4NDQ=",
"text": "Or at a boys/girls only school.",
"publishTime": 1752361523,
"author": {
"id": "pfbid02hEyeCP8KeNpfQraLN9iXGuj7h6v1WiBbHud7jC7NRgirUBhqhUtUsE9ajGhuqN1pl",
"name": "Jim Leonard",
"gender": "MALE",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Leonard/pfbid02hEyeCP8KeNpfQraLN9iXGuj7h6v1WiBbHud7jC7NRgirUBhqhUtUsE9ajGhuqN1pl/"
}
}
]
}
],
"cursor": "AQHRF9Pqd1V4sVipCqSQBHyMKGGIrkGA6avMdLaaUqhs72nvkH9fZNr7G8GIOMD3HPouxwMtIM8MbybuZoXNQLr6NA:eyIwIjoxNzUyMzYxNjI0LCIxIjo3NjgyLCIzIjowLCI0IjoxLCI1Ijo0LCI2IjowfQ=="
}
Use the cursor in your next request to get additional posts (sadly, Facebook only returns 3 posts at a time).
Try It Out. 100 Free Requests on Us
We made this API because scraping Facebook groups was too damn hard. Now it’s easy.
If you’ve been trying to:
- Extract insights from niche communities
- Do smarter lead gen
- Monitor trends or competitors
- Or just build something cool with real data...
You’re gonna love this.
👉 Get Your API Key Now, includes 100 free requests so you can try it risk-free.
No credit card. No rate limit headaches. Just clean data from public Facebook groups, ready to use.