> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.scrapebadger.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get Group & Group Posts

> Facebook Group metadata — privacy, member count, description, creation date — plus the group feed.

Fetch a Facebook Group's metadata, and its feed from the companion endpoint.

| Endpoint                                   | Returns                   |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------- |
| `GET /v1/facebook/groups/{group_id}`       | `Group` metadata          |
| `GET /v1/facebook/groups/{group_id}/posts` | the group feed (`Post[]`) |

**Credits:** 5 (each)

## Authorization

<ParamField header="X-API-Key" type="string" required>
  Your ScrapeBadger API key.
</ParamField>

## Path Parameters

<ParamField path="group_id" type="string" required>
  Numeric group id or the group's vanity slug — the
  `facebook.com/groups/<group_id>` segment.
</ParamField>

## Query Parameters

<ParamField query="after" type="string">
  `/posts` only. Pagination cursor — the `end_cursor` from a previous response.
</ParamField>

## Response — `/groups/{group_id}`

Returns a single `Group` object.

<ResponseField name="id" type="string">Numeric group id.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="name" type="string">Group name.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="url" type="string">Canonical `facebook.com/groups/` URL.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="privacy" type="string">Facebook's privacy setting — typically `Public` or `Private`.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="visibility" type="string">Whether the group is listed in search (`visible`) or hidden.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="member_count" type="integer">Number of members.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="description" type="string">Group intro / rules text.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="cover_photo" type="string">Cover image URL.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="creation_time_utc" type="number">Group creation time, Unix seconds.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="created_at" type="string">Group creation time, ISO 8601 UTC.</ResponseField>

## Response — `/groups/{group_id}/posts`

<ResponseField name="posts" type="Post[]">
  Full `Post` objects — `id`, `post_id`, `url`, `permalink_url`, `message`,
  `creation_time_utc`, `created_at`, `author` (Actor), `attachments[]`
  (Media), `reaction_count`, `reaction_count_text`, `top_reactions[]`,
  `comment_count`, `share_count`, `story_type`. See
  [Get Page or Profile Posts](/api-reference/endpoint/facebook/get-page-posts)
  for the field-by-field breakdown.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="count" type="integer">Number of posts in this page.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="end_cursor" type="string">Pass as `after` for the next page.</ResponseField>
<ResponseField name="has_next_page" type="boolean">Whether more posts are reachable.</ResponseField>

<Warning>
  A **private** group returns metadata but an empty `posts[]` — Facebook serves
  no feed units to a non-member session. Check `privacy` before treating an
  empty feed as an error.
</Warning>

## Example

<CodeGroup>
  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  curl "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/groups/1503289913" \
    -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
  ```

  ```javascript Node.js theme={null}
  const res = await fetch(
    "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/groups/1503289913",
    { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.SCRAPEBADGER_API_KEY } },
  );
  const group = await res.json();
  ```

  ```python Python theme={null}
  import requests

  res = requests.get(
      "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/groups/1503289913",
      headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
  )
  group = res.json()
  ```
</CodeGroup>

```json Response theme={null}
{
  "id": "1503289913",
  "name": "Brooklyn Buy Nothing",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/1503289913",
  "privacy": "Public",
  "visibility": "visible",
  "member_count": 42817,
  "description": "Give and receive freely with your Brooklyn neighbours. No selling, no trading, no cash.",
  "cover_photo": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/771204_n.jpg",
  "creation_time_utc": 1476403200.0,
  "created_at": "2016-10-14T00:00:00Z"
}
```

<Tip>
  Discover groups with
  [`/search/groups`](/api-reference/endpoint/facebook/search) — it returns
  `SearchResult` objects with `type: "group"`; take the `id` here for full
  metadata.
</Tip>