Modern Python alternative to
kevinzg/facebook-scraper— the 9.5k-star library that's been abandoned since 2022. Hosted backend means it doesn't break every time Meta changes their HTML.
This repo is a migration landing page + working examples. The actual SDK lives at SocialAPIsHub/socialapis-python and ships as the socialapis-sdk package on PyPI.
pip install socialapis-sdk
from socialapis import FacebookScraper fb = FacebookScraper(api_token="...") # alias of Facebook — keeps your import line greppable page = fb.get_page_info("EngenSA") print(page.title, page.followers_count, page.category) for post in fb.get_page_posts("EngenSA").get("posts", []): print(post["text"][:80])
Get a free API token → — 200 calls/month, no credit card
kevinzg/facebook-scraper was the default Python library for scraping Facebook for years. 9.5k+ GitHub stars. It's been abandoned since 2022 — open issues pile up, PRs sit unmerged, and every Meta DOM change breaks it.
If you're here because:
facebook-scraperstopped returning data- You searched for "facebook-scraper alternative" or "kevinzg fork"
- Your
get_posts()calls started raisingTemporarilyBannedor returning empty lists - You're tired of patching a library nobody maintains
…this is the modern replacement. Same idea — Facebook public data via Python — but the actual scraping runs on a hosted API (socialapis.io) so you never debug Meta's HTML again.
# BEFORE — kevinzg/facebook-scraper (abandoned) from facebook_scraper import get_page_info, get_posts page = get_page_info("EngenSA") print(page["name"], page["likes"]) for post in get_posts("EngenSA", pages=5): print(post["time"], post["text"][:80])
# AFTER — socialapis (one import line changed) from socialapis import FacebookScraper # alias of Facebook fb = FacebookScraper(api_token="...") page = fb.get_page_info("EngenSA") print(page.title, page.likes_count) # typed Pydantic model, IDE autocomplete for post in fb.get_page_posts("EngenSA").get("posts", []): print(post.get("time"), post.get("text", "")[:80])
FacebookScraper is an exact alias of socialapis.Facebook — same class, same methods, just a different name so your grep-replace migration stays a one-liner.
kevinzg/facebook-scraper |
socialapis (this SDK) |
|---|---|
get_page_info(page) |
FacebookScraper(api_token=…).get_page_info(page) |
get_posts(page, pages=N) |
FacebookScraper(…).get_page_posts(page) |
get_group_info(group) |
FacebookScraper(…).get_group_details(group) |
get_friends(user) |
(Meta blocked it years ago — even kevinzg deprecated it) |
set_proxy(...) / set_user_agent(...) |
Not needed — we manage the scraping infra |
set_cookies(...) |
Not needed — no Facebook login required |
Full working example: examples/migrate.py.
The hosted backend supports more than kevinzg ever did. From the same FacebookScraper instance:
# Group posts + metadata fb.get_group_details("groupslug") fb.get_group_posts("groupslug") # Search — pages, people, posts, videos, locations fb.search_pages("marketing", location_id="103006566409959") fb.search_posts("nike", recency="last_month") # Meta Ads Library (full transparency data — creative, spend, impressions) fb.search_ads("fitness", country="US", activeStatus="Active") fb.get_ad_archive_details(ad_archive_id="...", page_id="...") # Marketplace (listings, vehicles, rentals) fb.search_marketplace("cars", filter_location_latitude="40.7142", filter_location_longitude="-74.0064") fb.get_listing_details("123456789") # Reels fb.get_page_reels("EngenSA") # Async — same surface, methods are coroutines from socialapis import AsyncFacebookScraper async with AsyncFacebookScraper(api_token="…") as fb: page = await fb.get_page_info("EngenSA")
Full method list + Pydantic response types: main SDK README →
kevinzg/facebook-scraper (2018-era) |
socialapis (2026) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Maintenance | Abandoned 2022 | Active; 7M+ calls/month in prod |
| Reliability | Breaks on every Meta HTML change | Hosted backend; we absorb breakage |
| Type hints | None | Strict; Pydantic v2 models |
| Async | No | Facebook + AsyncFacebook classes |
| HTTP client | requests |
httpx |
| Auth | None (anonymous, often rate-limited) | Single x-api-token header, 200 free calls/month |
| Pagination | Generator with edge-case bugs | Cursor-based; API decides page size |
| Error handling | Generic exceptions | Typed hierarchy (RateLimitError, InsufficientCreditsError, …) |
| Tests | Manual against live FB | Recorded HTTP fixtures, Python 3.10–3.13 |
| Surface area | Page posts, group posts | 35+ Facebook endpoints + Instagram + Account |
| Tier | Calls / month | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 200 | $0 |
| Pro | 1,500 | $4.99 |
| Ultra | 30,000 | $49 |
| Mega | 120,000 | $179 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Contact us |
One credit per successful call. Failed calls (4xx caused by bad input) don't consume credits.
- Full SDK source + docs: SocialAPIsHub/socialapis-python
- Instagram alternative to
arc298/instagram-scraper: SocialAPIsHub/instagram-scraper-python - Hosted API docs: docs.socialapis.io
- Endpoint catalog (50 endpoints): socialapis.io/api-sources
- Status page: socialapis.io/status
- Telegram (fastest support): t.me/socialapis
- Email: [email protected]
MIT — see LICENSE.
The socialapis package this repo points at is also MIT-licensed. Both are open source; the hosted scraping API is the commercial layer.