Facebook Profile Scraper(by URL)

What does Facebook Profile Scraper do?

Facebook Profile Scraper extracts profile information from Facebook by visiting individual profile URLs. It fetches each profile page concurrently and parses key data such as name, bio, followers, page likes, work history, education, and more. Supports both personal profiles and public pages.

• Scrape Facebook profile pages by providing profile URLs directly
• Concurrent fetching for processing multiple profiles in parallel
• Extract comprehensive profile data: name, bio, followers, likes, work, education, photos, and more
• Supports both personal profiles and public pages
• Configurable retry and concurrency settings
• Export data in multiple formats: JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML

What data can you get from Facebook

Facebook Profile Scraper can gather the following data from each profile:

How to scrape Facebook profiles with Facebook Profile Scraper?

Facebook Profile Scraper is easy to use. Follow these 5 steps:

1. Collect one or more Facebook profile URLs (e.g. https://www.facebook.com/zuck).
2. Configure the input: paste the URLs into the url field.
3. Adjust retry_times and max_concurrency if needed.
4. Run the scraper and wait for the data to be extracted.
5. Download your data in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

Input

To start scraping Facebook profiles, fill in the input parameters. Facebook Profile Scraper supports the following inputs:

• url (required): Array of Facebook profile URLs
• retry_times (optional): Number of retry attempts per request, between 1 and 5 (default: 3)
• max_concurrency (optional): Maximum number of concurrent requests, between 1 and 20 (default: 8)

Input JSON

{
  "url": [
    { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/zuck" }
  ],
  "retry_times": 3,
  "max_concurrency": 8
}

Output

Each input URL returns one result row:

Here is an example of the data object in JSON:

{
  "user_url": "https://www.facebook.com/zuck",
  "user_name": "Mark Zuckerberg",
  "id": "4",
  "page_followers": "120M",
  "page_likes": "119M",
  "following": "450",
  "profile_photo": "https://scontent.fbko1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/...",
  "cover_photo": "https://scontent.fbko1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/...",
  "photos": [
    "https://scontent.fbko1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/...",
    "https://scontent.fbko1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/..."
  ],
  "page_intro": "Building open source AI, VR/AR, and the next generation of social platforms.",
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "Meta",
      "company_id": "10150136887993053",
      "title": "CEO",
      "start_date": "2004-02-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "end_date": null,
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/facebook"
    }
  ],
  "college": [
    { "id": "10593065189", "name": "Harvard University", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/Harvard/" }
  ],
  "high_school": [
    { "id": "1123456789", "name": "Ardsley High School", "url": null }
  ],
  "about": [
    { "value": "Born May 14, 1984", "link": null, "type": "birthday" },
    { "value": "Palo Alto, California", "link": null, "type": "location" }
  ],
  "error": "",
  "error_code": "",
  "user-input": ""
}

How can I use the data extracted from Facebook profiles?

• 🔍 Perform competitive analysis by studying brand and public figure profiles
• 📊 Conduct audience research by analyzing follower counts and engagement patterns
• 🎯 Identify influencers and key opinion leaders in your niche
• 📈 Track brand growth over time by monitoring followers and likes
• 💼 Analyze work and education backgrounds for talent research or recruitment
• 🏢 Build company intelligence by scraping organizational pages
• 📋 Create contact databases for outreach and marketing campaigns
• 🔬 Use profile data for social network analysis and academic research

Error items

When the scraper cannot retrieve data for a given URL, it pushes an error item to the dataset instead of silently skipping it. Normal output items are never affected; you can tell them apart by the presence of a non-empty error_code field.

Error item structure

{
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/invalid-profile",
  "status": "failed",
  "data": null,
  "error": "Profile not found or access denied",
  "error_code": "PAGE_NOT_FOUND"
}

Error codes reference

FAQ

Can I scrape both personal profiles and public pages?

Yes. Facebook Profile Scraper supports both personal profiles (e.g. facebook.com/zuck) and public pages (e.g. facebook.com/facebook). The available data fields may differ slightly depending on the profile type.

Can I scrape profiles from multiple URLs at once?

Yes. The url field accepts an array of profile URLs. The scraper will process all URLs concurrently and return one result row per URL.

How fast is the scraper?

The scraper uses concurrent requests (controlled by max_concurrency) to fetch multiple profile pages in parallel. With the default setting of 8 concurrent requests, it can process a large batch of URLs efficiently. You can increase max_concurrency up to 20 for faster scraping.

What happens if a profile is private?

The scraper returns an error item with an ACCESS_DENIED error code for private profiles, while continuing to process the remaining URLs normally.

Does this scraper work with Facebook groups?

No. This scraper is designed for personal profiles and public pages only. Facebook groups have a different page structure and are not supported.