Facebook Search Scraper

Facebook

Operated by Sourcelane✓ verified

A keyword-and-location Facebook web search scraper that finds and extracts matching Pages (businesses, brands, creators), Groups, and Posts for given keywords and places; it can optionally fetch enriched details for Pages (business contact information, category, ratings, follower/like counts, ad status, media links, creation date) and for Groups (full description, member counts, privacy/visibility, activity metrics, admin count, categories, creation date). The connector performs public web-index searches on Facebook, supports country-level localization and time-range filtering for posts, deduplicates results across multiple keywords, and returns structured records describing entity identity, URLs, identifiers, short descriptions, enrichment data (contact details and metrics), and post metadata (title, date, snippet, and source).

Verified Sep 28, 3:55 AM

$0.003

per search

Up to 100 per call. Only pay for results returned; failed calls are refunded.

What people use it for

Local lead generation: find local businesses by keyword and city and extract contact information for outreach.
Sales prospecting: build niche business lists by keyword and location for targeted outreach.
Community research: discover and evaluate the most active Facebook Groups in a niche for engagement or advertising.
Market and competitor research: identify businesses in a category and check which are running Facebook ads and their review/ratings metrics.
Social listening: track public Page and Group posts that mention a brand, product, or keyword with optional recent-time filtering.

Trust & reliability

7d uptime trend

Window	Uptime	Success rate	p50	p95
24h	—	—	—	—
7d	—	—	—	—
30d	—	—	—	—

Calling contract

Call it through Sourcelane's gateway or MCP server. We run the connector, apply your agent's spend guardrails, and bill only the results returned.

Call it via Sourcelane

curl -X POST https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"facebook-search-scraper","params":{"searchQueries":["dentist"],"maxResultsPerQuery":5},"maxResults":10}'

Request params

Field	Type	Required	Description
`searchQueries`	array	required	Keywords to search Facebook for, one per line (e.g. 'dentist', 'vintage cars', 'coffee roaster'). Each keyword is searched separately.
`searchType`	string	optional	Pages: business and brand Pages matching the keyword, ideal for local lead generation. Groups: public and visible Groups about the keyword. Posts: public Page and Group posts that mention the keyword.
`location`	string	optional	Optional city, region or country to narrow results (e.g. 'Austin TX', 'Manchester', 'Sydney'). Added to every keyword search.
`maxResultsPerQuery`	integer	optional	Stop after this many unique results for each keyword. Search depth is limited to roughly 100 results per keyword; add more specific keywords or locations to go wider. Capped at 100 per call.
`includeDetails`	boolean	optional	Pages: add email, phone, address, website, category, rating, followers and ad status. Groups: add description, member count, privacy, activity (posts per day/month) and creation date. Charged as a separate details event only when details are found. Not used for Posts.
`country`	string	optional	Optional 2-letter country code (e.g. US, GB, CA, AU) to localise the search results. Leave empty for the default.
`datePosted`	string	optional	Posts only: limit results to posts indexed within this time window.

Each result contains

Field	Type	Description
`type`	string	Type
`searchQuery`	string	Keyword
`searchLocation`	string	—
`url`	string	URL
`facebookId`	string	—
`name`	string	Name
`snippet`	string	Snippet
`listedLocation`	string	Location
`followersFromSearch`	null	—
`likesFromSearch`	null	—
`postedAt`	null	Posted
`postedAtText`	null	—
`authorUrl`	null	—
`groupUrl`	null	—
`detailsFetched`	boolean	—
`category`	string	—
`email`	string	—
`phone`	string	—
`address`	string	—
`website`	string	—
`links`	array	—
`intro`	string	—
`priceRange`	string	—
`rating`	string	—
`followerCount`	integer	—
`likeCount`	integer	—
`creationDate`	string	—
`isRunningAds`	boolean	—
`adLibraryPageId`	string	—
`profilePicUrl`	string	—
`coverPhotoUrl`	string	—
`description`	null	—
`privacy`	null	—
`visibility`	null	—
`memberCount`	null	—
`postsLastDay`	null	—
`postsLastMonth`	null	—
`adminCount`	null	—
`groupCategories`	array	—
`scrapedAt`	string	—

Use Facebook Search Scraper from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Pick your tool and connect in under a minute. Then just ask — for example: “Pull the last 30 posts from the Nike page and chart engagement by post type.”

Connect Claude

Web, desktop and mobile. Paste one URL.

1Copy your personal connector URL
2In Claude open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
3Paste the URL and click Add — done

Manual setup (config files, REST, Python) +

Claude Code

Adds the Sourcelane MCP server with your key as a header.

terminal

claude mcp add --transport http sourcelane https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"

Claude Desktop (config file)

Alternative to the connector URL: add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor & Windsurf

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Windsurf's mcp_config.json).

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "url": "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Save as .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code prompts for your key once.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.usesourcelane.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:sourcelane-key}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sourcelane-key",
      "description": "Sourcelane agent key",
      "password": true
    }
  ]
}

ChatGPT Custom GPT (Actions)

Create a GPT → Actions → Import from URL, then Authentication: API Key, Bearer.

OpenAPI schema URL

https://usesourcelane.com/openapi.json

REST

One POST. Pass maxResults to cap cost.

curl

curl -X POST https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"facebook-search-scraper","params":{"searchQueries":["dentist"],"maxResultsPerQuery":5},"maxResults":10}'

Python, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK…

Wrap the REST call as a tool, or point an MCP client at the endpoint.

python

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.usesourcelane.com/v1/call",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"},
    json={
        "listing": "facebook-search-scraper",
        "params": {"searchQueries":["dentist"],"maxResultsPerQuery":5},
        "maxResults": 10,
    },
    timeout=300,
)
body = res.json()
print(body["receipt"]["chargedMicros"], "micro-USD for", body["receipt"]["results"], "results")
print(body["data"])

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