Facebook Profile Photos API
Scrape Facebook Profile Photos data with one API call. Returns Facebook page or profile photos as unified Post items. Each item includes a photo ID, permalink, full-size image URL, thumbnail, and accessibility caption when available. The photo listing itself carries no author, engagement or date, so on a plain call `post.author`, `post.engagement` and `post.published_at` are null on every row. Send `include=details` and every photo is joined, in the same call, to the per-post lookup for its permalink: the page's name and avatar (`post.author.display_name`, `post.author.avatar_url`) and numeric id (`post.ext.author_id`), the reaction count, the comment count, the share count and the publish time land on each row. What the counts mean depends on the photo: a photo posted on its own carries that post's counts (the photo IS the post), while a photo inside a multi-photo post carries its own counts, which are usually far lower than the post's. The publish time is the post's either way. Photos have no view count, so `post.engagement.views` stays null. Cost: 1 credit for the page plus 1 credit per photo filled from a fresh lookup (8 photos a page, so 9 credits at most); rows already in cache are filled for free, rows that could not be filled are refunded, and a repeat of the same call within the cache window is 0 credits. Time: `include=details` adds 2 to 8 seconds on a fresh page (the lookups run in parallel and the call waits for the slowest, never more than 12 seconds) and nothing when the rows are already cached. The response carries a `hydration` block itemising rows, lookups, cache hits, credits and milliseconds.
Last updated October 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
Returns a page or profile's photos, each with a photo id, permalink, full-size image URL, thumbnail, and accessibility caption when available.
Use it for a page's photo gallery. The plain row carries no author, engagement or publish time, so add the optional include=details to fill them from each photo's own post in the same call.
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The Profile Photos 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/profile/photos?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMeta"import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/facebook/profile/photos",
params={
'url': 'https://www.facebook.com/Meta',
},
headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = response.json()const response = await fetch(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/facebook/profile/photos?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMeta",
{
headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
},
);
const data = await response.json();Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| url | Yes | Full URL of the Facebook page or profile |
| next_page_id | No | To paginate through to the next page |
| cursor | No | To paginate through to the next page |
| include | No | Set to `details` (one token only) to fill `post.author.display_name`, `post.author.avatar_url`, `post.ext.author_id`, `post.engagement.likes`, `.comments` and `.shares`, and `post.published_at` on every photo in this one call. Holds 1 credit per photo (8 a page) and keeps only the rows filled from a fresh lookup; rows already in cache and rows the lookup cannot fill are refunded, so a page is never more than 9 credits. A photo inside a multi-photo post carries its own counts, not the post's. The join takes 2 to 8 seconds on a fresh page, never more than 12, and nothing when the rows are already cached; read `data.hydration` for the rows, the credits held and kept, and the time. Without it the call is unchanged. (details) |
| since | No | Only rows published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Rows older than it are left off each page. This list is not in date order, so the walk does not stop at the date: keep following `next_cursor`, and each page costs what a page costs even when every row on it is filtered out. A row with no date is kept. `published_after`, `start_date`, `from_date`, `publish_time` (`yesterday`, `this-week`, `this-month`, `last-3-months`, `last-6-months`) and `max_age_days` are accepted and applied as `since`. |
| until | No | Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept. `published_before`, `end_date` and `to_date` are accepted and applied as `until`. |
What does the Facebook Profile Photos 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/profile/photos",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"post": {
"id": "1146841591338383",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1146841591338383&set=pb.100080376596424.-2207520000&type=3",
"content": {
"text": "Sample comment text (redacted).",
"media_urls": "https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/825292571_1146841521338390_8821495995170295283_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx852x874&ctp=s852x874&_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=6ee11a&_nc_ohc=idzu8UNXz1IQ7kNvwGSnOHa&_nc_oc=Adq43MQlcUjvdRvfBCzIwglBwz09nSgwcHX4IjwUYgbflPLocBh8LDvxTN-UACBHPT4&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&_nc_gid=02nxsIh9CILBpjMrX_PuPA&_nc_ss=78289&oh=00_AQPW1VrYMp_gT-I2Pd2Gk-XX_cNveDCRqun8usq9CXW5Ig&oe=6AC522C3",
"thumbnail_url": "https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/825292571_1146841521338390_8821495995170295283_n.jpg?stp=c0.7.852.852a_cp6_dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx852x852&ctp=s552x414&_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=7a06f5&_nc_ohc=idzu8UNXz1IQ7kNvwGSnOHa&_nc_oc=Adq43MQlcUjvdRvfBCzIwglBwz09nSgwcHX4IjwUYgbflPLocBh8LDvxTN-UACBHPT4&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&_nc_gid=02nxsIh9CILBpjMrX_PuPA&_nc_ss=78289&oh=00_AQPh2YMx5nMbDiasxGr8VsM4Y6PllI4_LSzw6NjsU7zjLw&oe=6AC522C3",
"duration_seconds": null
},
"author": {
"username": null,
"display_name": null,
"avatar_url": null,
"verified": null
},
"engagement": {
"views": null,
"likes": null,
"comments": null,
"shares": null,
"saves": null
},
"flags": {
"nsfw": null,
"spoiler": null,
"pinned": null,
"deleted": false
},
"published_at": null
},
"computed": {
"engagement_rate": null,
"language": null,
"content_category": "other",
"estimated_reach": null
}
},
{
"post": {
"id": "1146841184671757",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1146841184671757&set=pb.100080376596424.-2207520000&type=3",
"content": {
"text": "Sample comment text (redacted).",
"media_urls": "https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/825292146_1146841188005090_7443674991975795954_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx3366x1246&ctp=s3366x1246&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=cc71e4&_nc_ohc=vncXg57GIL0Q7kNvwGVtlOL&_nc_oc=Adrj947TciPZgkhDyvE5ZWQMHWjfNoW_JLhEUBBMshA3qjKTPjeJSX7pxFijx25AeNY&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&_nc_gid=02nxsIh9CILBpjMrX_PuPA&_nc_ss=78289&oh=00_AQN0irDysrVb7MZPf2_JMSRbb0lruiHm3vMoK4EwyxBtaQ&oe=6AC528B0",
"thumbnail_url": "https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/825292146_1146841188005090_7443674991975795954_n.jpg?stp=c1060.0.1246.1246a_cp6_dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1246x1246&ctp=s552x414&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=52bb43&_nc_ohc=vncXg57GIL0Q7kNvwGVtlOL&_nc_oc=Adrj947TciPZgkhDyvE5ZWQMHWjfNoW_JLhEUBBMshA3qjKTPjeJSX7pxFijx25AeNY&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&_nc_gid=02nxsIh9CILBpjMrX_PuPA&_nc_ss=78289&oh=00_AQPk7K6BZ3BtR4d2EMKzMGidLilX15ki4XauqBL2wzlAhA&oe=6AC528B0",
"duration_seconds": null
},
"author": {
"username": null,
"display_name": null,
"avatar_url": null,
"verified": null
},
"engagement": {
"views": null,
"likes": null,
"comments": null,
"shares": null,
"saves": null
},
"flags": {
"nsfw": null,
"spoiler": null,
"pinned": null,
"deleted": false
},
"published_at": null
},
"computed": {
"engagement_rate": null,
"language": null,
"content_category": "other",
"estimated_reach": null
}
}
],
"next_cursor": "scp.eyJ2IjoxLCJxIjp7Im5leHRfcGFnZV9pZCI6IllYQndYMk52Ykd4bFkzUnBiMjQ2Y0daaWFXUXdNMlZhZUhGb1pXcGlRV001ZG5OTWVUUm1lbE5PT0d0YWVYUm1Xa1ZsVTBVNFRXZEtjRXBUZW1kaWNHZGllRTQwTkdOU2JYVk1XbTFrVnpoNFpWbExOMGRZVGxJeU9EbG5hVU5ZZUdobFZVSTFia3h5ZVhKQ2R6a3lSbk5zIiwiY3Vyc29yIjoiQVFIVHMwNHRWTGpOa21KcjZIeTFjVmxFZmUwSmlUNUdOaVVvNlZrdVl2Y0d0Q2ZzR3hLVENSSVRrVXNwTE9mM1lmaWpsaG1Ib2czdFliR1ktaXVUT2M3V19RIn19",
"total": null,
"dropped": 0
},
"credits_used": 1,
"request_id": "req_example000000",
"cached": false,
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": "sc.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",
"has_more": true,
"page_size": 8
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"source": "captured",
"captured_at": "2026-10-02T07:32:13.281Z",
"redacted": true
}Live sample illustrating the unified response shape. Field values reflect the record you query.
How does the Facebook Profile Photos 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"
}
}
}Have a question? We got answers
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