Facebook Photos Scraper

Facebook Photo Scraper

Extract photos from public Facebook page.

With powerful filters: filter by photos uploaded by or tagged in (photos of)

Refine by year or month-year. Export high-resolution image URLs, permalinks directly to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

The Facebook Photo Scraper is an automated data extraction tool designed to collect photo datasets from public Facebook profiles, Pages

By leveraging native Facebook filtering mechanisms (such as photos posted by a user vs. photos tagged of a user, along with granular time-based filtering), this Actor enables targeted media collection for OSINT, brand protection, creative archiving, and dataset generation.

FEATURES

• 🎯 Advanced Photo Filtering: Extract photos using two core modes:

  • photos_by: Collect images uploaded directly by the user or Page.

  • photos_of: Collect images where the profile or Page is tagged.

• 📅 Granular Date Range Filtering: Filter extractions by Year or Month-Year to isolate specific timeframes without scraping entire profile histories.

• 🖼️ High-Resolution Image Extraction: Retrieve full-quality direct image source URLs alongside photo thumbnails.

• 🔗 Canonical Permalinks: Capture direct Facebook photo URLs (fbid) and tagged target references.

• 🤖 Accessibility Metadata: Extract automated image accessibility captions (accessibility_caption) when available for computer vision or text matching.

• ⚡ Anti-Blocking System: Powered by Apify Proxy integration to navigate rate limits and maintain reliable extractions.

• 📂 Multi-Format Export: Download clean datasets in JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, or HTML.

USE CASES

• Digital Forensics & OSINT Investigations: Gather chronologically sorted image evidence and tagged photo trails across public profiles.

• Brand Protection & IP Monitoring: Monitor brand asset usage, unauthorized re-uploads, and tagged promotional images.

• Computer Vision & AI Dataset Training: Build specialized image training sets categorized by topic, user, or date ranges.

• Creative Asset Archiving: Backup and archive corporate event media, product catalogs, and promotional gallery histories from Facebook Pages.

OUTPUT

Photos

{
  "id": "1691072636361409",
  "accessibility_caption": "Peut être un graphique de téléphone et texte qui dit ’Épisode 3 Le Sprint d'Été DÉJOUE L'ABSENCE BRUCE Chat Outlook … Out of office 홈너 Email Message From To Objet Message Il est absent ? Son remplaçant est dans le mail. Contacte-le.’",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1691072636361409&set=pb.100063760651412.-2207520000&type=3",
  "image": "https://scontent-cdg4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/786375685_1691072639694742_757252602599532342_n.jpg?stp=c0.135.1638.1638a_dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1638x1638&ctp=s552x414&_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=714c7a&_nc_ohc=Xxv7EbvECnkQ7kNvwHCDtL0&_nc_oc=Adp_Ew92qXlalGR9w9VlLu-0iy5faJI-3miWkkzbyi_AQySRLCJoKVMZQ31etcIb28FDnzNyxgZ8kJ4m24JOPVI7&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg4-2.xx&_nc_gid=58F_zrHzWKn_53DZQwIcoA&_nc_ss=7b289&oh=00_AQJBQFgQIdojduGbks5goxRakEqmz3Ppt3haEsMCcpbTYA&oe=6A9CC2C7"
}

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