# Facebook Photos Scraper (`saswave/facebook-photos-scraper`) Actor

$0.8 / 1000 results. Extract photos from Facebook public profiles and pages. Use date filters. This actor is built for content monitoring, media archiving, and social intelligence.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/saswave/facebook-photos-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [SASWAVE](https://apify.com/saswave) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, Social media
- **Stats:** 5 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 3 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### 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](https://www.facebook.com)** 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

```json
{
  "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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# Actor input Schema

## `pages` (type: `array`):

Provide public page identifier, ex: https://www.facebook.com/TeamBruceFr identifier is TeamBruceFr

## `photo_type` (type: `string`):

select photo type

## `date_filter` (type: `string`):

Year or Year-Month ex : 2017 or 2017-06

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

0 or empty = no limit

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "pages": [
    "TeamBruceFr"
  ],
  "photo_type": "photos_by",
  "date_filter": "",
  "max_results": 1
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "pages": [
        "TeamBruceFr"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("saswave/facebook-photos-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "pages": ["TeamBruceFr"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("saswave/facebook-photos-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "pages": [
    "TeamBruceFr"
  ]
}' |
apify call saswave/facebook-photos-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,saswave/facebook-photos-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/unhyRGQfq5IM6vdka/builds/s1cIj2UkVRe54ePoP/openapi.json