Profile 1 credit
Exact follower count for a public Facebook Page or personal profile; a Page also returns its name, category and verified badge.
InputPublic Facebook profile URL Charge1 credit a call
Facebook APIs
Facebook APIs for public Page and post data
Read public Facebook Pages, profile follower counts, posts, videos and reels without a Facebook login. Responses keep Facebook’s own terms, such as reactions instead of likes and plays beside views. A read that fails on our side is free; content confirmed unavailable is charged as not found.
Facebook API catalog
Choose the API by the job.
Post Stats 1 credit
Reactions, comments, shares, views and plays for a public Facebook post, video or reel, by a Page or a person.
InputPublic Facebook post URL Charge1 credit a call
Page Posts 3 credits
The latest public posts of a Facebook Page, each with its reactions, comments and shares.
InputPublic Facebook profile URL Charge3 credits a call
Build path
From first request to production.
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Pick the job
Choose the Facebook endpoint by outcome: profile, post stats or page posts.
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Send one clear input
Use a public URL, keyword, cursor or small parameter set. Each API page shows valid examples before you write code.
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Check each response
Each response includes a fetch timestamp, its availability and the credits it billed, so you can match usage to your own records.
Use cases
Where Facebook APIs fit.
Page benchmarking
Track the exact follower count of your own and competitors’ public Pages on a schedule, with each Page’s category and verified badge.
Post and reel reporting
Refresh reactions, comments and shares on campaign posts, and views and plays on videos and reels, across the life of a campaign.
Creator qualification
Check the public follower count of a creator’s Page or profile before a partnership moves into manual review.
Delivery checks
Confirm that a sponsored post is still public and see what it drew, from the URL the creator sent.
Platform caveats
Facebook limits.
Unavailable is one answer: not found
Facebook shows the same “This content isn’t available” page for content that is missing, deleted, private or blocked in a region. Once a second check confirms it, that is reported as not found and charged like any lookup; the response cannot say which of those it was, so it is never reported as private. A read we could not confirm is a free 503. Group, story and event URLs are not supported, and are refused free before any fetch.
Personal profiles are counts only
A Page returns its name, category, avatar and verified badge. A personal profile returns its follower count and id, and a person’s post returns its counts without the text or the author’s name.
Rounded reactions stay rounded
Where Facebook shows only a rounded reaction figure such as 14K, that is the number returned; where nothing says more, reactions is null rather than a guess. Shares are null on a video’s page, where Facebook does not show them.
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