Facebook group

Scrape public metadata and public initial-page posts from a Facebook group URL or group id.

POST /v1/facebook/group

Request Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
cursor	body	string	No	Offset cursor returned as next_cursor from the previous response.
group_id	body	string	No	Facebook group id or public group slug. Use this instead of url when you only have the identifier.
max_posts	body	integer	No	Maximum number of public posts to return from the initial group page payload.
url	body	string	No	Facebook group URL.

Response Structure

Async kickoff response

Polled run result response

Sync response

Declared output schema

Code Examples

Async + polling

RUN=$(curl -s -X POST "https://api.browsable.app/v1/facebook/group" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"cursor":"20","group_id":"2379328805667854","max_posts":20,"url":"https://www.facebook.com/groups/2379328805667854/"}')

RUN_ID=$(echo "$RUN" | jq -r '.run_id')
POLL_DELAY=3

while true; do
  RESULT=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" "https://api.browsable.app/v1/runs/$RUN_ID")
  STATUS=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.run_status')
  if [[ "$STATUS" =~ ^(succeeded|failed|errored|cancelled|canceled|expired)$ ]]; then
    echo "$RESULT"
    break
  fi
  sleep "$(awk "BEGIN { print $POLL_DELAY * (0.9 + ($RANDOM % 21) / 100) }")"
  POLL_DELAY=$((POLL_DELAY < 30 ? POLL_DELAY * 2 : 30))
  [ "$POLL_DELAY" -gt 30 ] && POLL_DELAY=30
done

Sync

curl -X POST "https://api.browsable.app/v1/facebook/group" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"cursor":"20","group_id":"2379328805667854","max_posts":20,"url":"https://www.facebook.com/groups/2379328805667854/","_run":{"async":false}}'