# Facebook Page and People Search API. Pages and people matching your search. Pages and people by name, niche or place. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes. [Get API key](https://socialtap.dev/signup/?next=%2Fplayground%2F%3Fendpoint%3Dfacebook.search_profiles) ## Facebook Page and People Search API at a glance Returns the Facebook Pages and people a web search finds for a name, a business type or a place, with each one's username and profile link. Each also has what the search index shows of it: name, a Page's about text, followers, likes, check-ins and city. Add fill=true for each account's full, live Facebook profile in the same response: ID, exact counts, verified badge, picture and contact details. account_type narrows the results to Pages or to people. GET `/v1/facebook/search_profiles` [Read the API reference](https://socialtap.dev/docs/reference/facebook/search_profiles/index.md) - **1 credit** per page, +1 per result filled in, up to 51 credits, $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000 pages - **16 typed fields** null when unknown - **50** pages and people per page, the search engine's ranking (most relevant first) - **`query`** is all it needs, e.g. `coffee roaster` ## Send one request. Get up to 50 pages and people back. Copy the request in your language, or hand it to your agent. Sign up for an API key and your first 100 credits are free. `$ npm install socialtap` `query = coffee roaster` [Open in playground](https://socialtap.dev/playground/?endpoint=facebook.search_profiles) cURL: ```shell curl -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/search_profiles' \ --data-urlencode 'query=coffee roaster' \ -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY" ``` TypeScript SDK: ```typescript import { SocialTap } from "socialtap"; const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY const res = await client.facebook.searchProfiles.list({ query: "coffee roaster" }); console.log(res.data); console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id); ``` Node.js (fetch): ```javascript const params = new URLSearchParams({ query: "coffee roaster", }); const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/facebook/search_profiles?${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_profiles", 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_profiles?"+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": [ "platform_specific.facebook.place", "platform_specific.facebook.talking_about_count", "platform_specific.facebook.were_here_count" ], "community": null, "details": null, "hashtag": null, "matched_url": "https://www.facebook.com/coffeeroasterlnk/", "place": null, "platform": "facebook", "platform_specific": { "facebook": { "account_type": "page", "like_count": null, "place": "Lincoln", "talking_about_count": 159, "were_here_count": 449 } }, "position": 0, "post": null, "profile": { "avatar_url": null, "bio": "Serving fresh roasted coffee to Lincoln and beyond since 1995. 🖤 Locally owned. Community loved.", "display_name": "The Coffee Roaster", "id": null, "is_verified": null, "metrics": { "follower_count": 4063, "following_count": null, "post_count": null, "total_like_count": null, "total_view_count": null }, "url": "https://www.facebook.com/coffeeroasterlnk", "username": "coffeeroasterlnk" }, "snippet": "The Coffee Roaster, Lincoln. 4,063 followers · 159 talking about this · 449 were here. Serving fresh roasted coffee to Lincoln and beyond since 1995. 🖤 Locally owned. Community loved.", "sound": null, "title": "The Coffee Roaster | Lincoln NE | Facebook", "type": "profile", "unknown_fields": [], "url": "https://www.facebook.com/coffeeroasterlnk" }, { "approximate_fields": [ "platform_specific.facebook.place", "platform_specific.facebook.talking_about_count", "platform_specific.facebook.were_here_count" ], "community": null, "details": null, "hashtag": null, "matched_url": "https://www.facebook.com/thecoffeeroastercy/", "place": null, "platform": "facebook", "platform_specific": { "facebook": { "account_type": "page", "like_count": null, "place": "Paralimni", "talking_about_count": 16, "were_here_count": 122 } }, "position": 1, "post": null, "profile": { "avatar_url": null, "bio": "The Coffee Roasters has been importing speciality coffee since 2007. In 2020 we started an artisan roastery", "display_name": "The Coffee Roaster", "id": null, "is_verified": null, "metrics": { "follower_count": 1225, "following_count": null, "post_count": null, "total_like_count": null, "total_view_count": null }, "url": "https://www.facebook.com/thecoffeeroastercy", "username": "thecoffeeroastercy" }, "snippet": "The Coffee Roaster, Paralimni. 1,225 followers · 16 talking about this · 122 were here. The Coffee Roasters has been importing speciality coffee since 2007. In 2020 we started an artisan roastery...", "sound": null, "title": "The Coffee Roaster | Paralimni | Facebook", "type": "profile", "unknown_fields": [], "url": "https://www.facebook.com/thecoffeeroastercy" }, { "approximate_fields": [ "platform_specific.facebook.talking_about_count", "platform_specific.facebook.were_here_count", "profile.metrics.follower_count" ], "community": null, "details": null, "hashtag": null, "matched_url": "https://www.facebook.com/thecoffeeroaster/", "place": null, "platform": "facebook", "platform_specific": { "facebook": { "account_type": "page", "like_count": null, "place": null, "talking_about_count": 39, "were_here_count": 63 } }, "position": 2, "post": null, "profile": { "avatar_url": null, "bio": "The Coffee Roaster Group operates TCR Cafe @ NUS AS8, TCR Academy and baking unit The Baker's Gallery", "display_name": "The Coffee Roaster", "id": null, "is_verified": null, "metrics": { "follower_count": 2865, "following_count": null, "post_count": null, "total_like_count": null, "total_view_count": null }, "url": "https://www.facebook.com/thecoffeeroaster", "username": "thecoffeeroaster" }, "snippet": "The Coffee Roaster. 2,865 followers · 39 talking about this · 63 were here. The Coffee Roaster Group operates TCR Cafe @ NUS AS8, TCR Academy and baking unit The Baker's Gallery", "sound": null, "title": "The Coffee Roaster (@thecoffeeroaster)", "type": "profile", "unknown_fields": [], "url": "https://www.facebook.com/thecoffeeroaster" } ], "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": 1267, "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_profiles/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 accounts by, as a web search reads them: a Page's or a person's name, a business type and a place (coffee roaster, yoga studio austin, john smith, "national geographic"). - ### 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 Page and People Search API. - ### Find a business's Page from its name - ### Build local business lead lists by city - ### Find people on Facebook by name - ### Discover creators and public figures in a niche ## Good to know before you build. - Facebook has no logged-out search of Pages or people, so results come from a public web search engine's index of Facebook's pages, in its ranking: an account the index hasn't crawled isn't found. - Facebook's own search filters (city, education, work) have no equivalent here: put what you know in the words. - Without fill, an account's id, avatar_url and is_verified are null, and its name, about text and counts are the index's copy of the page, possibly weeks old, listed in approximate_fields. - With fill=true, each result's details.profile is the account's live record from the Facebook Profile API and its summary is updated from it; platform_specific.facebook stays the index's. - The index's copy is what tells Pages and people apart. A result it doesn't tell apart has a null account_type, and account_type=page or person leaves it out, so a filtered page can hold fewer results than the limit while more follow. - A person in professional mode is described as a Page, and reads as page until filled. - People have little public text: a person's result is usually only a name and a link, and fill works only for those Facebook shows logged out. - A result the profile lookup can't fetch costs nothing extra; meta.warnings says how many. - The index goes only so deep: a search usually ends within three pages, a search of people often after one (page.end_reason end). - Case doesn't matter. site: operators in the query are removed, and intitle:, inurl: and intext: 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_profiles/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 Page and People Search API. More in the [API reference](https://socialtap.dev/docs/reference/facebook/search_profiles/index.md). **Can I search Facebook for people by name?** Yes. Send the name with account_type=person. Results come from a web search engine's index, so a person it hasn't crawled isn't found, and a result is usually only a name and a link. **How much does the Facebook Page and People Search API cost?** A page of up to 50 pages and people 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 User Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/tiktok/search_profiles/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/tiktok/search_profiles`) - [Instagram User Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/instagram/search_profiles/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/instagram/search_profiles`) - [X (Twitter) User Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/x/search_profiles/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/x/search_profiles`) - [LinkedIn Company and People Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/linkedin/search_profiles/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/linkedin/search_profiles`) - [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 Post Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/search_posts/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/facebook/search_posts`) - [Facebook Group Search API](https://socialtap.dev/apis/facebook/search_groups/index.md) (From 1 credit / page · `GET /v1/facebook/search_groups`) - [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_profiles/) · [Docs index for AI agents](https://socialtap.dev/llms.txt) · [All docs in one file](https://socialtap.dev/llms-full.txt)