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Facebook Reviews Scraper

A powerful and easy-to-use tool for extracting Facebook reviews, allowing you to gather structured insights from public pages. This scraper automates the process of collecting review text, timestamps, images, and engagement metrics, giving you clean and ready-to-use data. Ideal for research, analysis, or integrating review data into analytical dashboards.

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Introduction

Facebook Reviews Scraper automates the collection of publicly available reviews from Facebook pages. It solves the challenge of manually browsing for feedback, compiling scattered information, and turning unstructured review content into actionable datasets. This tool is perfect for analysts, marketers, researchers, and developers who need accurate and large-scale review data.

Why Extract Facebook Reviews?

  • Helps analyze brand sentiment and social trends.
  • Enables businesses to benchmark against competitors.
  • Supports academic and commercial research into user behavior.
  • Simplifies gathering structured reviews at scale.
  • Identifies patterns in user engagement and recommendations.

Features

Feature Description
Review extraction Captures review text, recommendation status, timestamps, and images.
User metadata collection Gathers basic public reviewer details such as name and profile ID.
Engagement metrics Scrapes likes, comments count, and review URLs.
Multi-format output Export results to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML.
Customizable limits Set result limits and request retries for optimized runs.

What Data This Scraper Extracts

Field Name Field Description
facebookUrl URL of the scraped Facebook page.
id Unique identifier of the review.
user Object containing reviewer ID, name, profile URL, and avatar.
date ISO timestamp of when the review was posted.
url Direct URL to the review post.
isRecommended Indicates if the reviewer recommended the page.
text Review body text.
likesCount Number of likes on the review.
commentsCount Number of comments on the review.
facebookId Page-level ID associated with the review.
postFacebookId Post-level ID for deeper linking.
pageName Name of the Facebook page.

Example Output

[
  {
    "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/allmatters",
    "id": "UzpfSTgzNTM5Mzg0NToxMDE1ODg5MDUyNDY5ODg0NjoxMDE1ODg5MDUyNDY5ODg0Ng==",
    "user": {
      "id": "pfbid031JGq7ukCeZUQrUMoqSr3JMacksktE3fAbutV1H5mXHu6QjETwtuYq1jPFQ6axFBNl",
      "name": "Vesselina Palazova",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/vesselinap",
      "profilePic": "https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/..."
    },
    "date": "2020-08-12T06:36:44.000Z",
    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/vesselinap/posts/pfbid0bBjGxXsPYMyJg7VGwAqfJRidvLJ299cJVZZrCGFBn12LT93382kC9B2yDHV9CRHcl",
    "isRecommended": true,
    "text": "Environmentally friendly. Easy to use...",
    "likesCount": 2,
    "commentsCount": 0,
    "facebookId": "402677536461567",
    "postFacebookId": "5796416440420956",
    "pageName": "AllMatters"
  }
]

Directory Structure Tree

Facebook Reviews Scraper/
├── src/
│   ├── main.js
│   ├── extractors/
│   │   ├── facebook_reviews_parser.js
│   │   └── helpers.js
│   ├── outputs/
│   │   └── export_manager.js
│   └── config/
│       └── settings.example.json
├── data/
│   ├── input.sample.json
│   └── sample_output.json
├── package.json
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md

Use Cases

  • Brands use it to monitor customer satisfaction so they can improve product offerings and user experience.
  • Researchers use it to collect large datasets of user opinions so they can perform sentiment or trend analysis.
  • Marketing teams use it to benchmark competitors so they can identify strengths and weaknesses in the market.
  • Agencies use it to gather social proof for clients so they can generate insights-backed reports.
  • Developers use it to automate data ingestion so they can enrich dashboards and internal tools.

FAQs

Q: Can it scrape reviews from any Facebook page? A: It can extract reviews from public Facebook pages that have reviews enabled. Pages without a reviews section will not return results.

Q: Does this scraper access private user information? A: No. It only collects publicly visible data shared voluntarily by the reviewer.

Q: How many reviews can be scraped at once? A: Result counts vary by page, region, and platform limitations. Many pages return hundreds of reviews, but some may return fewer.

Q: What output formats are supported? A: JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, HTML, and XML.


Performance Benchmarks and Results

Primary Metric: Processes an average of 80–150 reviews per minute depending on page complexity. Reliability Metric: Sustains a 92–97% completion rate across varied page layouts and content volumes. Efficiency Metric: Optimized request handling reduces redundant loads, allowing efficient multi-page scraping. Quality Metric: Consistently captures 95%+ of publicly visible review fields with minimal data loss.

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