# Facebook Post Search API. Public posts and videos matching your search. Public posts and videos by keyword. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes. [Get API key](https://socialtap.dev/signup/?next=%2Fplayground%2F%3Fendpoint%3Dfacebook.search_posts) ## Facebook Post Search API at a glance Returns public Facebook posts that a web search finds for your keywords, with each post's link, account, date and opening text. Add fill=true to get each post's full, live Facebook record in the same response: post ID, text, media, exact reaction, comment and share counts and publish time. media=video finds videos instead. Page through the results with the cursor. GET `/v1/facebook/search_posts` [Read the API reference](https://socialtap.dev/docs/reference/facebook/search_posts/index.md) - **1 credit** per page, +1 per result filled in, up to 51 credits, $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000 pages - **16 typed fields** null when unknown - **50** public posts and videos per page, the search engine's ranking (most relevant first) - **`query`** is all it needs, e.g. `coffee roaster` ## Send one request. Get up to 50 public posts and videos back. Copy the request in your language, or hand it to your agent. Sign up for an API key and your first 100 credits are free. `$ npm install socialtap` `query = coffee roaster` [Open in playground](https://socialtap.dev/playground/?endpoint=facebook.search_posts) cURL: ```shell curl -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/search_posts' \ --data-urlencode 'query=coffee roaster' \ -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY" ``` TypeScript SDK: ```typescript import { SocialTap } from "socialtap"; const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY const res = await client.facebook.searchPosts.list({ query: "coffee roaster" }); console.log(res.data); console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id); ``` Node.js (fetch): ```javascript const params = new URLSearchParams({ query: "coffee roaster", }); const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/search_posts?${params}`, { headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" }, }); const body = await res.json(); if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`); const { data, page, meta } = body; console.log(data, meta.credits_charged); ``` Python (requests): ```python import os import requests res = requests.get( "https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/search_posts", params={"query": "coffee roaster"}, headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]}, ) body = res.json() if not res.ok: raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}") data, page, meta = body["data"], body["page"], body["meta"] print(data, meta["credits_charged"]) ``` Go (net/http): ```go package main import ( "encoding/json" "fmt" "log" "net/http" "net/url" "os" ) func main() { q := url.Values{} q.Set("query", "coffee roaster") req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/search_posts?"+q.Encode(), nil) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")) res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } defer res.Body.Close() var body struct { Data json.RawMessage `json:"data"` Page json.RawMessage `json:"page"` Meta map[string]any `json:"meta"` Error *struct { Code string `json:"code"` Message string `json:"message"` } `json:"error"` } if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } if body.Error != nil { log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message) } fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"]) } ``` 200 OK: ```json { "data": [ { "approximate_fields": [], "community": null, "details": null, "hashtag": null, "matched_url": "https://www.facebook.com/arcaderoasters/posts/welcome-to-the-roasting-part-of-arcade-coffee-roasters-all-our-coffee-is-freshly/877760954366326/", "place": null, "platform": "facebook", "platform_specific": { "facebook": { "account_type": null, "like_count": null, "place": null, "talking_about_count": null, "were_here_count": null } }, "position": 0, "post": { "author": { "avatar_url": null, "display_name": "Arcade Coffee Roasters", "id": null, "is_verified": null, "url": "https://www.facebook.com/arcaderoasters", "username": "arcaderoasters" }, "id": null, "metrics": { "comment_count": null, "like_count": null, "quote_count": null, "repost_count": null, "save_count": null, "share_count": null, "view_count": null }, "published_at": null, "text": null, "thumbnail_url": null, "title": null, "url": "https://www.facebook.com/arcaderoasters/posts/877760954366326" }, "profile": null, "snippet": "Arcade Coffee Roasters. 2,569 likes · 25 talking about this · 79 were here. Arcade Coffee Roasters is a Specialty Coffee Company located in the Inland Empire.", "sound": null, "title": "Arcade Coffee Roasters | Facebook", "type": "post", "unknown_fields": [], "url": "https://www.facebook.com/arcaderoasters/posts/877760954366326" }, { "approximate_fields": [], "community": null, "details": null, "hashtag": null, "matched_url": "https://www.facebook.com/reddoorroaster/posts/740482067782696/", "place": null, "platform": "facebook", "platform_specific": { "facebook": { "account_type": null, "like_count": null, "place": null, "talking_about_count": null, "were_here_count": null } }, "position": 1, "post": { "author": { "avatar_url": null, "display_name": "Red Door Coffee Roaster", "id": null, "is_verified": null, "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reddoorroaster", "username": "reddoorroaster" }, "id": null, "metrics": { "comment_count": null, "like_count": null, "quote_count": null, "repost_count": null, "save_count": null, "share_count": null, "view_count": null }, "published_at": null, "text": null, "thumbnail_url": null, "title": null, "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reddoorroaster/posts/740482067782696" }, "profile": null, "snippet": "Red Door Coffee Roaster, Center Valley. 624 likes · 1 talking about this · 19 were here. Micro-roaster of fine coffees � NEW! Coffee Shop: Located at the Trolley Barn Public Market 116 E Broad...", "sound": null, "title": "Red Door Coffee Roaster | Center Valley PA | Facebook", "type": "post", "unknown_fields": [], "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reddoorroaster/posts/740482067782696" }, { "approximate_fields": [], "community": null, "details": null, "hashtag": null, "matched_url": "https://www.facebook.com/DalianAmazonCoffeeRoaster/posts/dl-a721-sbb-1kg-coffee-roaster/973590226143545/", "place": null, "platform": "facebook", "platform_specific": { "facebook": { "account_type": null, "like_count": null, "place": null, "talking_about_count": null, "were_here_count": null } }, "position": 2, "post": { "author": { "avatar_url": null, "display_name": "Coffee Roaster", "id": null, "is_verified": null, "url": "https://www.facebook.com/DalianAmazonCoffeeRoaster", "username": "DalianAmazonCoffeeRoaster" }, "id": null, "metrics": { "comment_count": null, "like_count": null, "quote_count": null, "repost_count": null, "save_count": null, "share_count": null, "view_count": null }, "published_at": null, "text": null, "thumbnail_url": null, "title": null, "url": "https://www.facebook.com/DalianAmazonCoffeeRoaster/posts/973590226143545" }, "profile": null, "snippet": "Coffee Roaster, Dalian. 326 likes. Dalian Amazon Coffee Co.,Ltd, a professional Coffee Roaster 's manufacturer, Nine years' Alibaba Gol", "sound": null, "title": "Coffee Roaster | Dalian | Facebook", "type": "post", "unknown_fields": [], "url": "https://www.facebook.com/DalianAmazonCoffeeRoaster/posts/973590226143545" } ], "page": { "has_more": true, "next_cursor": "c1.EXAMPLE_CURSOR", "next_cursor_expires_at": "2026-10-26T12:00:00Z", "end_reason": null }, "meta": { "request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f", "platform": "facebook", "source": "web_search", "is_cached": false, "credits_charged": 1, "latency_ms": 1131, "fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z", "input": null, "credits_remaining": 9999, "client_request_id": null, "warnings": [] } } ``` Long arrays and strings are shortened here. Real responses are complete. ## One schema on 6 platforms. The [response reference](https://socialtap.dev/docs/reference/facebook/search_posts/index.md#response) lists every field, its type and when it is `null`. [See the full schema](https://socialtap.dev/resources/web_result/index.md). - ### Null means unknown A field Facebook doesn't show is null, never zero or an empty string, so a real zero always means zero. - ### What it accepts Words to find Facebook posts by, as a web search reads them: a topic, a product, a brand or a place (coffee roaster, electric vehicle charging, "nancy grace roman"). - ### Write one parser Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and 3 more platforms answer in these fields, so the code that reads one reads them all. - **`platform`string**: Platform the item is on. - **`type`string**: The kind of item the result names, as the resource that describes it: profile (an account), post, hashtag, sound, place or community. The item's summary is the field of that name, and a filled result's record is details.\. A search that finds several kinds (a platform's top search) mixes them in one list. New values may be added as more kinds are searchable; treat unknown values as other. - **`position`integer**: Zero-based rank of the result in the list, across pages: the search engine's order, counting only the results kept. - **`url`string**: The item's canonical link on the platform (the account's page for a profile, the post's for a post). - **`matched_url`string**: The page the index listed: the item's own page, or one of its pages that names it (a video of an account, for a profile found through it). - **`title`string**: The page's title as the index shows it: often the item's name, but not the item's own field. Null when the index shows none. - **`snippet`string**: The index's excerpt of the page: often the item's description and counts as the page stated them when it was indexed, days or weeks ago. Null when the index shows none. - **`profile`object**: The account the result names (type profile): what its link and the index's text say of it, completed from details when the result is filled. Null for every other type. Live data from 33 platforms. [TikTok](https://socialtap.dev/apis/tiktok/index.md) · [Instagram](https://socialtap.dev/apis/instagram/index.md) · [Facebook](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/index.md) · [YouTube](https://socialtap.dev/apis/youtube/index.md) · [Reddit](https://socialtap.dev/apis/reddit/index.md) · [Threads](https://socialtap.dev/apis/threads/index.md) · [Spotify](https://socialtap.dev/apis/spotify/index.md) · [Amazon](https://socialtap.dev/apis/amazon/index.md) · [Apple Music](https://socialtap.dev/apis/applemusic/index.md) · [Pinterest](https://socialtap.dev/apis/pinterest/index.md) · [Rumble](https://socialtap.dev/apis/rumble/index.md) · [X](https://socialtap.dev/apis/x/index.md) · [Bluesky](https://socialtap.dev/apis/bluesky/index.md) · [Twitch](https://socialtap.dev/apis/twitch/index.md) · [LinkedIn](https://socialtap.dev/apis/linkedin/index.md) · [Telegram](https://socialtap.dev/apis/telegram/index.md) · [TikTok Shop](https://socialtap.dev/apis/tiktokshop/index.md) · [Kwai](https://socialtap.dev/apis/kwai/index.md) · [Snapchat](https://socialtap.dev/apis/snapchat/index.md) · [SoundCloud](https://socialtap.dev/apis/soundcloud/index.md) · [Truth Social](https://socialtap.dev/apis/truthsocial/index.md) · [Kick](https://socialtap.dev/apis/kick/index.md) · [Komi](https://socialtap.dev/apis/komi/index.md) · [Lnk.Bio](https://socialtap.dev/apis/linkbio/index.md) · [Linkme](https://socialtap.dev/apis/linkme/index.md) · [Linktree](https://socialtap.dev/apis/linktree/index.md) · [Pillar](https://socialtap.dev/apis/pillar/index.md) · [TikTok Ad Library](https://socialtap.dev/apis/tiktok-ad-library/index.md) · [Facebook Ad Library](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook-ad-library/index.md) · [Facebook Events](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook-events/index.md) · [Facebook Marketplace](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook-marketplace/index.md) · [Google Ads Transparency Center](https://socialtap.dev/apis/google-ads-transparency/index.md) · [LinkedIn Ad Library](https://socialtap.dev/apis/linkedin-ad-library/index.md) ## What teams build with the Facebook Post Search API. - ### Monitor what Pages post about a brand - ### Find posts about a place or an event - ### Find public videos on a topic - ### Track mentions of a name across Pages ## Good to know before you build. - Facebook has no logged-out post search, so results come from a public web search engine's index of Facebook posts, in its ranking: a post the index hasn't crawled isn't found, and the newest posts are often missing. - Results are posts of Pages and profiles (facebook.com/\/posts/…). Posts in groups, photos, videos and reels aren't listed. - With media=video, results are those accounts' videos (facebook.com/\/videos/…) from the same index, in its ranking. Reels aren't listed, and the index has few of them. - Without fill, a post's id, counts and media are null, and its text and publish time are the index's, listed in approximate_fields. - The index's text is usually the post's first words, but can be the title of a link it shares, other text on its page, or null. Its date, on the posts it dates, is usually right to about a day, rarely the date of a later crawl. - With fill=true, each result's details.post is the post's live record from the Facebook Post API, and its summary is updated from it. - since and until filter by the index's dates (post.published_at) and leave out posts the index hasn't dated, so a narrow or recent window often returns few results or none although such posts exist. - A result the post lookup can't fetch (a deleted post, or one Facebook shows only to logged-in visitors) stays unfilled and costs nothing extra; meta.warnings says how many. - The index goes only so deep: a search usually ends within three pages, and its last page can be empty (page.end_reason end). - Case doesn't matter. site: operators in the query are removed, and intitle:, inurl:, intext:, url: and the like count as plain words. ## From 1 credit per page. Failed requests are free. Buy credits once and spend them on any endpoint, on any platform. [Plans and packs](https://socialtap.dev/pricing/index.md) · [How this endpoint is priced](https://socialtap.dev/docs/reference/facebook/search_posts/index.md#pricing) · [How credits work](https://socialtap.dev/docs/credits/index.md) | Source | Price per successful page | Per 1,000 pages | | --- | --- | --- | | Any source | 1 credit + 1 per result filled in
up to 51 credits (50 results filled in) | $0.75–$1.97 + $0.75–$1.97 per result filled in | - Cache hits are free. - Credits from packs and top-ups never expire. - A monthly plan's credits are spent first, and what is left of them ends at each renewal. - Prices exclude tax: sales tax is added at checkout where it applies. - Outside the US, plans and packs are sold to businesses: checkout asks for your VAT, GST or other business tax ID. ## Questions about the Facebook Post Search API. More in the [API reference](https://socialtap.dev/docs/reference/facebook/search_posts/index.md). **Does it find the newest posts?** Not reliably. Results come from a web search engine's index, which often lacks the latest posts. To watch a Page for new posts, use the Facebook Profile Posts API. **How much does the Facebook Post Search API cost?** A page of up to 50 public posts and videos costs 1 credit + 1 per result filled in, up to 51 credits (50 results filled in). Every successful page is charged, empty pages included. SocialTap credits cost $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000, depending on the plan or pack. **How do I get the next page?** Repeat the same request with cursor set to page.next_cursor from the previous response, keeping the other parameters. When page.has_more is false there are no more pages. Cursors expire after 24 hours. Other platforms ## Web results on 5 more platforms. - [TikTok Top Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/tiktok/search_top/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/tiktok/search_top`) - [Instagram User Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/instagram/search_profiles/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/instagram/search_profiles`) - [X (Twitter) Post Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/x/search_posts/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/x/search_posts`) - [LinkedIn Post Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/linkedin/search_posts/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/linkedin/search_posts`) - [Telegram Channel Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/telegram/search_channels/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/telegram/search_channels`) More Facebook ## Facebook API. 14 endpoints, one key. - [Facebook Post API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/post/index.md) (1 credit · `GET /v1/facebook/post`) - [Facebook Reels API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/reels/index.md) (1 credit / page · `GET /v1/facebook/reels`) - [Facebook Group Posts API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/group_posts/index.md) (1 credit / page · `GET /v1/facebook/group_posts`) - [Facebook Profile Posts API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/posts/index.md) (1 credit / page · `GET /v1/facebook/posts`) - [Facebook Profile Photos API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/photos/index.md) (1 credit / page · `GET /v1/facebook/photos`) - [Facebook Profile API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/profile/index.md) (1 credit · `GET /v1/facebook/profile`) - [Facebook Comments API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/comments/index.md) (1 credit / page · `GET /v1/facebook/comments`) - [Facebook Comment Replies API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/replies/index.md) (1 credit / page · `GET /v1/facebook/replies`) - [Facebook Video Transcript API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/transcript/index.md) (From 1 credit · `GET /v1/facebook/transcript`) - [Facebook Group Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/search_groups/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/facebook/search_groups`) - [Facebook Page and People Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/search_profiles/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/facebook/search_profiles`) - [Facebook Engagement API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/engagement/index.md) (1 credit · `GET /v1/facebook/engagement`) - [Facebook Group API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/group/index.md) (1 credit · `GET /v1/facebook/group`) ## Try it with your own search. Type it in the playground, or copy the request into your code. 100free credits - No credit card - Failed requests are free - Works on all 218 endpoints [Start for free](https://socialtap.dev/signup/) [Read the docs](https://socialtap.dev/docs/index.md) --- [HTML version](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/search_posts/) · [Docs index for AI agents](https://socialtap.dev/llms.txt) · [All docs in one file](https://socialtap.dev/llms-full.txt)