Get Post

Get Post

curl --request GET \
  --url https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/{post_id} \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <x-api-key>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<x-api-key>'}};

fetch('https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/{post_id}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/{post_id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "X-API-Key: <x-api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/{post_id}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<x-api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/{post_id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<x-api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "id": "<string>",
  "post_id": "<string>",
  "url": "<string>",
  "permalink_url": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "story_type": "<string>",
  "creation_time_utc": 123,
  "created_at": "<string>",
  "author": {},
  "attachments": [
    {}
  ],
  "reaction_count": 123,
  "reaction_count_text": "<string>",
  "top_reactions": [
    {}
  ],
  "comment_count": 123,
  "share_count": 123
}

GET

facebook

posts

{post_id}

Get Post

curl --request GET \
  --url https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/{post_id} \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <x-api-key>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<x-api-key>'}};

fetch('https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/{post_id}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/{post_id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "X-API-Key: <x-api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/{post_id}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<x-api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/{post_id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<x-api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "id": "<string>",
  "post_id": "<string>",
  "url": "<string>",
  "permalink_url": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "story_type": "<string>",
  "creation_time_utc": 123,
  "created_at": "<string>",
  "author": {},
  "attachments": [
    {}
  ],
  "reaction_count": 123,
  "reaction_count_text": "<string>",
  "top_reactions": [
    {}
  ],
  "comment_count": 123,
  "share_count": 123
}

Fetch one post. Facebook post ids come in several shapes — bare numeric ids, pfbid strings, permalink.php query forms and reel/ URLs. When you have a full URL, pass it as url; it overrides the path id. Credits: 5

Authorization

string

required

Your ScrapeBadger API key.

Path Parameters

string

required

Post id — numeric or pfbid. Ignored when url is supplied, but still required as a path segment (pass any placeholder, e.g. 0).

Query Parameters

string

Full post permalink or reel URL. Overrides post_id. Use this for permalink.php?story_fbid=…&id=… and {page}/posts/{pfbid} forms that a bare id cannot resolve.

Response

Returns a single Post object.

string

Story id.

string

Post id.

string

Canonical post URL.

string

Permalink URL.

string

Post text.

string

Facebook’s story classification, e.g. a shared-link or life-event story.

number

Post time, Unix seconds.

string

Post time, ISO 8601 UTC.

Actor

id, name, url, profile_picture, is_verified, typename.

Media[]

type (Photo · Video), id, uri, width, height, url, playable_url.

integer

Total reactions.

string

Facebook’s abbreviated display string, e.g. 48K.

object[]

{ name, count } — like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry, care.

integer

Number of comments.

Number of shares.

Example

curl "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/0?url=https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02Kx9YqLmN4vT7wJ3hR8sQ2fZ1nB6cD5" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch(
  "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/1094832771620487",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.SCRAPEBADGER_API_KEY } },
);
const post = await res.json();

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/facebook/posts/1094832771620487",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
post = res.json()

Response

{
  "id": "pfbid02Kx9YqLmN4vT7wJ3hR8sQ2fZ1nB6cD5",
  "post_id": "1094832771620487",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02Kx9YqLmN4vT7wJ3hR8sQ2fZ1nB6cD5",
  "permalink_url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid02Kx9YqLmN4vT7wJ3hR8sQ2fZ1nB6cD5",
  "message": "Webb just resolved the disk around a star 1,300 light-years away. Those rings? Planets, forming right now.",
  "creation_time_utc": 1785398400.0,
  "created_at": "2026-07-28T14:40:00Z",
  "author": {
    "id": "54971236771",
    "name": "NASA",
    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA",
    "profile_picture": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-1/32118_n.jpg",
    "is_verified": true,
    "typename": "Page"
  },
  "attachments": [
    {
      "type": "Photo",
      "id": "1094832768287154",
      "uri": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/558921_n.jpg",
      "width": 2048,
      "height": 2048,
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1094832768287154",
      "playable_url": null
    }
  ],
  "reaction_count": 48213,
  "reaction_count_text": "48K",
  "top_reactions": [
    { "name": "like", "count": 31204 },
    { "name": "love", "count": 14882 },
    { "name": "wow", "count": 2127 }
  ],
  "comment_count": 1844,
  "share_count": 6721,
  "story_type": null
}

A deleted or region-restricted post returns 404. Comments are a separate, heavier call — /posts/{post_id}/comments.

Facebook API

Endpoints

Authorization

Path Parameters

Query Parameters

Response

Example

​Authorization

​Path Parameters

​Query Parameters

​Response

​Example

Authorization

Path Parameters

Query Parameters

Response

Example