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Facebook Group API

Scrape Facebook Group data with one API call. Returns a Facebook group's public record: name, description, member count, privacy, visibility, and creation date. Pass the group URL or group_id. Use group/posts for the group's recent posts.

Last updated October 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team

Returns a Facebook group's public record: name, description, member count, privacy, visibility, and creation date.

Use it to identify a group by URL or group_id before calling group/posts for the recent posts.

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Facebook API

What can you do with the Group API?

The Group endpoint gives you structured Facebook data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.

Example Request

curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/facebook/group?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2F2204685680"
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/facebook/group",
    params={
    'url': 'https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204685680',
    },
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)

data = response.json()
const response = await fetch(
  "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/facebook/group?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2F2204685680",
  {
    headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
  },
);

const data = await response.json();

Parameters

ParameterRequiredDescription
urlNoFull URL of the Facebook group.
group_idNoNumeric Facebook group id.
Example Response

What does the Facebook Group API return?

Every response follows one unified schema. Here is a real, unmodified response body, so you can see the exact fields you get back before spending a credit.

Example response
{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "facebook",
  "endpoint": "/v1/facebook/group",
  "data": {
    "author": {
      "id": "2204685680",
      "username": null,
      "display_name": "PHP",
      "avatar_url": null,
      "bio": "Welcome to the PHP group.\n\n🐘 PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development.\nhttps://php.net\n\n⚠️ GROUP RULES:\n- Be nice and respectful to others.\n- Post in English.\n- Be professional. Aim for good quality in questions and discussions.\n- For sharing code use nopaste sites.\n- Publish only PHP and web-centric development related topics.\n- Job offers have to be PHP or web development related.\n- Don't share personal data (emails, phone numbers...).\n- Read https://conduct.php.earth\n\n📌 GROUP GUIDES:\n- How to ask smart questions?\nhttps://php.earth/questions\n- How to answer questions?\nhttps://php.earth/answers\n- Frequently asked questions:\nhttps://docs.php.earth/faq\n- Where to start?\nhttps://docs.php.earth/faq/intro/what-is-php\n- PHP frameworks:\nhttps://docs.php.earth/misc/frameworks\n- Nopaste sites:\nhttps://docs.php.earth/interop/nopaste\n- Recommended PHP books:\nhttps://docs.php.earth/faq/intro/books\n\n📘 MUST CHECK:\n- Official PHP docs:\nhttps://php.net/docs\n- PHP best practices, coding standards, tutorials:\nhttps://phptherightway.com\n- Disproval of various PHP delusions and superstitions:\nhttps://phpdelusions.net\n- Open source PHP code:\nhttps://packagist.org\n\n🌍 LOCAL GROUPS:\nDiscuss PHP in your language or meet PHP people in person\nhttps://php.ug\n\n🤝 ADMINS:\n- Have questions or experiencing issues? Ask admins here:\nfb.com/groups/2204685680/permalink/10156916600625681",
      "verified": null,
      "followers": 255625,
      "following": null,
      "posts_count": null,
      "likes_count": null,
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204685680",
      "private": null,
      "joined_at": "2006-07-12",
      "ext": {
        "group": {
          "privacy_label": "Public",
          "privacy_description": "Anyone can see who's in the group and what they post.",
          "visibility_label": "Visible",
          "visibility_description": "Anyone can find this group.",
          "member_count_text": "255,625 total members",
          "administrator_count": 8,
          "moderator_count": 7,
          "history_summary": "Group created on July 12, 2006",
          "categories": [],
          "rules": [],
          "administrators": [
            {
              "id": "user_9e7fd8",
              "name": "user_b22341",
              "url": "https://example.com/user_6adaf3",
              "profile_picture_url": "https://example.com/avatars/user_c51967.png"
            },
            {
              "id": "user_0a1eff",
              "name": "user_a5ebf7",
              "url": "https://example.com/user_acffdb",
              "profile_picture_url": "https://example.com/avatars/user_4a7709.png"
            }
          ],
          "moderators": [
            {
              "id": "user_1173e7",
              "name": "user_754177",
              "url": "https://example.com/user_33242d",
              "profile_picture_url": "https://example.com/avatars/user_4445a5.png"
            },
            {
              "id": "user_42d373",
              "name": "user_b7b9dd",
              "url": "https://example.com/user_254f44",
              "profile_picture_url": "https://example.com/avatars/user_71a8cf.png"
            }
          ],
          "activity": {
            "posts_last_day": 0,
            "posts_last_month": 7,
            "new_members_text": "No new members in the last week"
          },
          "about_info": [
            {
              "type": "XFBPrivacyGroupsAboutInfoItem",
              "label": "Public",
              "description": "Anyone can see who's in the group and what they post."
            },
            {
              "type": "XFBDiscoverabilityGroupsAboutInfoItem",
              "label": "Visible",
              "description": "Anyone can find this group."
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    "computed": {
      "engagement_rate": null,
      "language": "en",
      "content_category": "tech",
      "estimated_reach": null
    }
  },
  "credits_used": 1,
  "request_id": "req_example000000",
  "cached": false,
  "credits_remaining": 9999,
  "source": "captured",
  "captured_at": "2026-10-02T15:36:37.076Z",
  "redacted": true
}

Live sample illustrating the unified response shape. Field values reflect the record you query.

API Details

How does the Facebook Group API work?

Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.

Method

GET

Response

JSON

Why SocialCrawl

Why use SocialCrawl for Facebook Group data?

We handle the complexity of Facebook data extraction so you can focus on building. Unified schema, AI enrichment, and zero platform logic in your code.

Developer First

How do you scrape social media data in seconds?

The fastest social media scraping API for developers. Scrape profiles, posts, comments, and analytics from 68 platforms covering 10B+ monthly active users.

One schema, every platform

Query 68 platforms with identical response structures. Write your integration once.

Computed fields, not just scraped

When an endpoint supports these metrics and the source provides the required inputs, the normalized record includes engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category, and language. Ready to use.

See your data before you code

Visual Data Explorer. Paste any URL, get rich result cards, sortable tables, CSV export.

import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
    params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
    headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json()
[ .JSON ]
{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "data": {
    "author": {
      "username": "charlidamelio",
      "followers": 152400000
    },
    "engagement": {
      "likes": 12400000000,
      "engagement_rate": 0.087
    },
    "metadata": {
      "language": "en",
      "content_category": "lifestyle"
    }
  }
}
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