Collect Facebook comments by URL

Use the Bright Data Web Scraper API to collect Facebook comments by URL. Calls the POST /datasets/v3/scrape endpoint and returns a snapshot ID.

POST /datasets/v3/scrape

cURL

cURL

curl --request POST \ --url 'https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_lkay758p1eanlolqw8&include_errors=true' \ --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{"input": [{"url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/1234567890"}, {"url": "https://www.facebook.com/Meta/posts/9876543210"}]}'

200

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/Pagina12ok/posts/pfbid0...",
    "post_id": "1287876623560800",
    "post_url": "https://www.facebook.com/Pagina12ok/posts/pfbid0...",
    "comment_id": "Y29tbWVudDox...",
    "user_name": "Norma Ester Mercado",
    "user_id": "pfbid0...",
    "user_url": "https://www.facebook.com/normaester.mercado.1",
    "date_created": "2026-04-02T23:46:29.000Z",
    "comment_text": "Great post, thanks for sharing!",
    "num_likes": 1,
    "num_replies": 0,
    "attached_files": null,
    "type": "Comment",
    "reply": true,
    "parent_comment_id": "Y29tbWVudDox..."
  }
]

Query Parameters

dataset_id · string · default: "gd_lkay758p1eanlolqw8" · required

The dataset ID used for this request.

Must be set to gd_lkay758p1eanlolqw8 to collect Facebook comments data.

notify · boolean · default: false

Whether to send notifications when the request is completed.

include_errors · boolean · default: true

Whether to include errors in the response.

Request Body

input · object[] · required

An array of input objects.

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url · string · required

The URL of the Facebook post to collect comments from.

Example

{
  "input": [
    {"url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/1234567890"},
    {"url": "https://www.facebook.com/Meta/posts/9876543210"}
  ]
}

200

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/Pagina12ok/posts/pfbid0...",
    "post_id": "1287876623560800",
    "post_url": "https://www.facebook.com/Pagina12ok/posts/pfbid0...",
    "comment_id": "Y29tbWVudDox...",
    "user_name": "Norma Ester Mercado",
    "user_id": "pfbid0...",
    "user_url": "https://www.facebook.com/normaester.mercado.1",
    "date_created": "2026-04-02T23:46:29.000Z",
    "comment_text": "Great post, thanks for sharing!",
    "num_likes": 1,
    "num_replies": 0,
    "attached_files": null,
    "type": "Comment",
    "reply": true,
    "parent_comment_id": "Y29tbWVudDox..."
  }
]

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Query Parameters

dataset_id · string · default: gd_lkay758p1eanlolqw8 · required

Must be gd_lkay758p1eanlolqw8 for this dataset.

notify · boolean · default: false

Send notifications when the request is completed.

include_errors · boolean · default: true

Include errors in the response.

Body

application/json

input · object[] · required

Array of input objects. See Request Body below for the supported fields.

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Response

200 - application/json

OK. See response example below the parameters.