Facebook facebook Post API

Scrape a public Facebook post, reel or video

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/facebook/post \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "postUrl": "<string>",
  "postId": "<string>"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({postUrl: '<string>', postId: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/facebook/post', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/facebook/post"

payload = {
    "postUrl": "<string>",
    "postId": "<string>"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "postUrl": "<string>",
    "media": [
      {
        "type": "photo",
        "url": "<string>",
        "imageUrl": "<string>",
        "videoUrl": "<string>",
        "width": 0,
        "height": 0,
        "durationSeconds": 123,
        "altText": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "postId": "<string>",
    "text": "<string>",
    "publishedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "authorId": "<string>",
    "authorName": "<string>",
    "authorUrl": "<string>",
    "reactions": {
      "total": 0,
      "like": 0,
      "love": 0,
      "care": 0,
      "haha": 0,
      "wow": 0,
      "sad": 0,
      "angry": 0
    },
    "comments": 0,
    "shares": 0
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

POST

facebook

post

Scrape a public Facebook post, reel or video

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/facebook/post \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "postUrl": "<string>",
  "postId": "<string>"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({postUrl: '<string>', postId: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/facebook/post', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/facebook/post"

payload = {
    "postUrl": "<string>",
    "postId": "<string>"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "postUrl": "<string>",
    "media": [
      {
        "type": "photo",
        "url": "<string>",
        "imageUrl": "<string>",
        "videoUrl": "<string>",
        "width": 0,
        "height": 0,
        "durationSeconds": 123,
        "altText": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "postId": "<string>",
    "text": "<string>",
    "publishedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "authorId": "<string>",
    "authorName": "<string>",
    "authorUrl": "<string>",
    "reactions": {
      "total": 0,
      "like": 0,
      "love": 0,
      "care": 0,
      "haha": 0,
      "wow": 0,
      "sad": 0,
      "angry": 0
    },
    "comments": 0,
    "shares": 0
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

Scrape a public Facebook post, reel or video. The post is identified by its URL or ID.

Request

Exactly one of postUrl or postId is required. A request that sets both, or none, fails with invalidRequest.

import { Stophy } from "stophy";

const stophy = new Stophy({ apiKey: process.env.STOPHY_API_KEY });
const result = await stophy.facebook.post({ postId: "1652244896270880" });
console.log(result.data);

from stophy import Stophy

stophy = Stophy()  # reads STOPHY_API_KEY
result = stophy.facebook.post(post_id="1652244896270880")
print(result["data"])

curl -X POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/facebook/post \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STOPHY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"postId":"1652244896270880"}'

stophy facebook post --postId 1652244896270880

Response

If successful, the response body contains the standard envelope. data contains the post’s text, media, author, reactions, comments and shares. The following example is a real response, truncated: each list shows one item and long strings are cut.

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "postId": "1652244896270880",
    "postUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid0dPToN66CzcAHGMoaNe3jszH4FfBKvqkE5gogCNJkTxXDPsSGYrGvcVwsLgByyMQQl",
    "text": "Brewing up baby stars ⭐\n\nNASA's James Webb Space Telescope's unique view reveals many previously hidden stars in this…",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-09T20:54:33.000Z",
    "authorId": "100044561550831",
    "authorName": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
    "authorUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
    "media": [
      {
        "type": "photo",
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1652244872937549&set=a.416661013162614",
        "imageUrl": "https://scontent-phl2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.99422-6/841844892_1454330573225436_3520855839134390984_n.png?stp=dst-jpg_tt6…",
        "width": 552,
        "height": 515,
        "altText": "A young star cluster filled with many stars that display Webb’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its…"
      }
    ],
    "reactions": {
      "total": 4111,
      "like": 2401,
      "love": 1550,
      "care": 86,
      "haha": 11,
      "wow": 62,
      "sad": 0,
      "angry": 1
    },
    "comments": 79,
    "shares": 443
  },
  "creditsUsed": 1,
  "requestId": "2fe9dbad-fc48-4890-9751-0b24b596035b"
}

Field	Type	Description
`type`	string	The kind of item: `photo` or `video`.
`total`	integer	The total number of matching results, across all pages.
`publishedAt`	string (ISO 8601)	The publication time, in UTC.

For every field, see the response schema on this page.

Billing

Each successful request consumes 1 credit, regardless of the number of items returned. Requests that fail, or that return no items, are not billed.

Pagination

This method is not paginated. A single request returns the complete result.

Facebook facebook Post Comments: Accepts postUrl. Scrape the comments of a public Facebook post.

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Query Parameters

maxTextLength

integer

Cut every text value in the response to this many characters. A value that was cut ends with …, and a page whose text was cut has isTruncated set to true. A screenshot is never cut. Leave it out to get the full text.

Required range: x >= 1

Body

application/json

postUrl

string

Link to the Facebook post, reel or video, like https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02gw6zHFiZqf2s6SfjfvdBiBc2qwhTRfXkXsoaUrWS5ik7omNgKFtzDsfimXD4Lpx7l. Send this or postId.

postId

string

Facebook post, reel or video ID, like 1652244896270880. Send this or postUrl.

Response

The data, and the credits this call used.

success

any

required

data

object

required

Show child attributes

creditsUsed

integer

required

requestId

string

required

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