Scrape Facebook Pages with AI

# Scrape Facebook Pages — SoloStack Skill File
> Drop this file into your SoloStack repo and Claude Code will use it as
> context to run this workflow automatically.
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## Overview
Extract Facebook page posts, follower counts, engagement data, and business info using Apify actors and Claude Code.
**Apify Actor:** `apify/facebook-pages-scraper`
**Pricing:** ~$0.40 per 1,000 posts
## Capabilities
1. **Page Metadata Extraction** — Pull follower counts, page category, contact info, about text, and verification status from any public Facebook page.
2. **Post Content & Media** — Extract full post text, image URLs, video thumbnails, shared links, and post type (photo, video, link, status).
3. **Engagement Metrics** — Capture reaction counts (like, love, wow, angry), comment counts, and share counts for every post.
4. **Comment Extraction** — Pull top-level comments with commenter names, timestamps, and reply counts for sentiment analysis.
5. **Date Range Filtering** — Limit scraping to specific date ranges to analyze seasonal trends or campaign performance windows.
6. **Batch Processing** — Scrape multiple pages in a single run — compare competitors side by side in one dataset.
## Pipeline
1. **Define targets** — Specify Facebook page URLs, post count limits, and date range filters
2. **Scrape pages** — Apify's Facebook scraper extracts posts, reactions, comments, and page metadata
3. **Analyze & enrich** — Score engagement rates, categorize post types, and extract mentioned URLs
4. **Load into CRM** — Push page profiles and engagement data into Neon database for competitive intel
## Use Cases
- **Competitor content analysis:** Track what competitors post, which formats perform best, and how their engagement compares to yours. Identify winning content patterns to replicate.
- **Community intelligence:** Monitor Facebook groups where your ICP discusses problems. Extract threads mentioning your competitors or product category for outreach opportunities.
- **Ad creative research:** Scrape competitor page posts that look like organic ads — high engagement product posts, testimonial shares, and launch announcements for creative inspiration.
- **Audience overlap analysis:** Identify users who engage with multiple competitor pages to understand shared audience segments and find underserved niches.
## Warnings
- Facebook aggressively blocks scraping — expect occasional rate limits. Use Apify's residential proxy support and keep request volumes reasonable (under 1,000 posts per run).
- Private groups and profiles are not accessible. Only public pages and public group posts can be scraped.
- Facebook CDN image URLs expire within 24-48 hours. Download images immediately if you need to archive visual content.
## Sample Output
```json
{
  "pageUrl": "https://facebook.com/hubspot",
  "pageName": "HubSpot",
  "pageFollowers": 1842567,
  "postId": "pfbid02abc123",
  "postDate": "2026-03-15T14:30:00Z",
  "postType": "photo",
  "text": "Your CRM shouldn't feel like a second job. Here's how to automate 80% of your data entry...",
  "imageUrls": ["https://scontent.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/photo.jpg"],
  "reactions": {
    "total": 847,
    "like": 612,
    "love": 134,
    "wow": 56,
    "haha": 28,
    "sad": 8,
    "angry": 9
  },
  "comments": 93,
  "shares": 67,
  "engagementRate": 0.054
}
```
Download the complete skill file with full implementation details,
agent prompts, and ready-to-run scripts.