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Retrieve comments

Collect comments

When a scraping job is executed with the get_comments parameter set to true, all publicly available (non-deleted) comments for the specified post will be collected. You can retrieve these comments, along with any replies, using the following endpoint. We return up to 1000 comments per post.

To retrieve comments, you’ll need to use the post_id associated with the target Facebook post. This value is provided in the scraping results.

Base URL

GET https://facebook-scraper-api.datashake.com/v1/scrape/:request_id/comments

Path parameters

request_id

Field type: string
Required: true
Description: The unique identifier for the scraping request.

Request parameters

post_id

Field type: string
Required: true
Description: The unique identifier for the Facebook post.

page

Field type: integer
Required: false
Description: The page number of the results to retrieve.

per_page

Field type: integer
Required: false
Description: The number of results to retrieve per page.

Code example 
curl --location 'https://facebook-scraper-api.datashake.com/v1/scrape/1742515679047322765-7538bd54-2bd7-45/comments?post_id=1217775029913484&page=1&per_page=10' --header 'x-api-key: your-api-key'

import requests

url = "https://facebook-scraper-api.datashake.com/v1/scrape/1742515679047322765-7538bd54-2bd7-45/comments"

params = {
    "post_id": "1217775029913484",
    "page": 1,
    "per_page": 10
}
headers = {
    "x-api-key": "your-api-key"
}

response = requests.get(url=url, headers=headers, params=params)

Response

API response example 
{
   "request_id":"1743405732704235622-3e02dd3d-6b32-49",
   "status":"completed",
   "credits_used":null,
   "request_metadata": {
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/posts/1217775029913484",
        "callback_url": "http://example.com/callback",
        "external_identifier": "my-custom-id",
        "get_comments": true
    },
   "results":[
      {
         "post_id":"1217775029913484",
         "post_url":"https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/posts/1217775029913484",
         "comment_id":"Y29tbWVudDoxMjE3Nzc1MDI5OTEzNDg0XzEwMDEzMTcwMjE1MTE1Mzc=",
         "posted_at": "2025-03-31T16:49:15.000Z",
         "text":"I attract healthy love. I’m enough.” I wish that every teen girl and young woman could feel this in their bones. Everybody, really.",
         "replies_count": 4,
         "likes_count":734,
         "author": {
            "profile_picture_url": null,
            "name": "Peg Fury",
            "url": null,
            "id": "pfbid02KRioXsb7cyz2dmtSTaFivPjakJFBM343TZB1Z9sTH1Ju2jN8Ns6jJEDYsigaBf99l"
         },
         "replies":[
            {
               "post_url":"https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/posts/1217775029913484",
               "author": {
                  "profile_picture_url": null,
                  "name": "Frances Delgado",
                  "url": null,
                  "id": "pfbid0eKyRbUWz2Wz3A2c4XUsUnJQ1H6mLoe1FTAU9KELZxZGYg4ndGy6gp6N77dfzn8t6l"
               },
               "text":"Peg Fury Send Mrs Susan pena a friend request you'll definitely thank me later for referring you to her!\n👇👇👇\nSusan Pena",
               "comment_id":"Y29tbWVudDoxMjE3Nzc1MDI5OTEzNDg0XzEwMDEzMTcwMjE1MTE1Mzc=",
               "reply_id":"Y29tbWVudDoxMjE3Nzc1MDI5OTEzNDg0Xzk2NzU1NzQwMjI1MTg5NA==",
               "likes_count":0,
               "posted_at": "2025-03-31T20:05:48.000Z"
            },
            {
               "post_url":"https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/posts/1217775029913484",
               "author": {
                  "profile_picture_url": null,
                  "name": "Barbi Petty",
                  "url": null,
                  "id": "pfbid0kcxGvnqndzgSprTje2k4wSykNgmSTtjWoWdvPtzfUDGhWEhc9ktfAEZzSMHei8iql"
               },
               "text":"Peg Fury facts",
               "comment_id":"Y29tbWVudDoxMjE3Nzc1MDI5OTEzNDg0XzEwMDEzMTcwMjE1MTE1Mzc=",
               "reply_id":"Y29tbWVudDoxMjE3Nzc1MDI5OTEzNDg0XzEyMTE0NDMwOTA1NTA0MzA=",
               "likes_count":0,
               "posted_at":"2025-03-31T20:05:48.000Z",
            },
            ...
         ]
      },
      ...
   ],
   "summary":null,
   "pagination":{
      "total":878,
      "page":1,
      "per_page":10,
      "total_pages":88
   }
}