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.
Searching 68 platforms in parallel
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
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| url | No | Full URL of the Facebook group. |
| group_id | No | Numeric Facebook group id. |
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.
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
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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(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
}Ready to scrape Facebook Group data?
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