Best Facebook data APIs, 2026Every main way to get Facebook data.Meta’s Pages API, research library and Ad Library API, plus the main data APIs, compared on what they return, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Competitors’ public Pages, posts and engagement in a product or pipelineA data API. They differ most in coverage and how they charge.
Keyword search across public posts, plus comments and group postsA data API that lists keyword search of posts as well as comments and groups.
Competitors’ ads from the Meta Ad LibraryMeta’s Ad Library API covers political and issue ads, and ads delivered to the EU. These data APIs also list ad search.
An AI agent that looks things up on FacebookAn option with an MCP server, so the agent can call it directly.
Publishing, insights and comment moderation for Pages you manageMeta’s Pages API, which is built for Pages your app manages.
10options compared
5with an MCP server
6free to start
35sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Four routes
Meta’s Pages API is built for Pages your app manages. Its research library is for approved researchers, and its Ad Library API covers political and issue ads and ads delivered to the EU. Data APIs read public Facebook data with an API key.
Facebook Pages API
Meta Content Library
Meta Ad Library API
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect.
| Facebook data | Connect | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Pages | Posts | Reels | Comments | Reactions | Groups | Search | Ads | Marketplace | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | |||||||||||
| Facebook Pages APIOfficial, Meta | – | – | – | – | 12345 | |||||||
| Meta Content LibraryOfficial, researchers | – | – | 678 | |||||||||
| Meta Ad Library APIOfficial, ad transparency | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 91011 | ||
| AdyntelAd library API | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12131415 | |||
| ApifyFacebook scraper actors | 1617181920 | |||||||||||
| Bright DataFacebook Scraper API | – | 2122232425 | ||||||||||
| Data365Social data API | – | – | 262728 | |||||||||
| SociaVaultSocial data API | 29303132 | |||||||||||
| ThordataFacebook Scraper API | – | – | – | – | – | – | 333435 | |||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
No published price Reading Pages you don’t manage needs App Review and Business Verification.
Worth knowingBuilt for Pages you manage: publishing, insights, comment moderation and webhooks.
No published price
Free for approved researchers, with no fees for access or computation.
Worth knowingReturns up to 100,000 results per API query, analysed inside Meta’s research environment.
Free for approved researchers
No published price Called through Meta’s Graph API with an access token.
Worth knowingSearchable by keyword, or by up to ten Facebook Pages at once.
No published price
$44 a month for 5,000 credits
One call returns about 30 ads for 1 credit. Pay as you go is also offered.
Worth knowingTakes a company domain or Facebook Page URL and returns its Facebook and Instagram ads, about 30 per credit.
50 credits
$5.00 per 1,000 posts on the free plan
From $2.00 on higher plans. Starter plan $19 a month.
Worth knowingA separate Apify-maintained scraper for each job, from posts and groups to Marketplace and the Ad Library.
$5 of usage a month
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go
$499 a month includes 384,000 records.
Worth knowingSeparate scrapers for Pages, posts, groups, reels, events and Marketplace, with proxies and parsing in the record price.
5,000 records a month
€300 a month for one network
500,000 credits included. A Facebook profile costs 9 credits and a post 1.
Worth knowingCollects live for each request, through tasks you start, check and then fetch; failed tasks are not charged.
14-day trial, on request
$29 for 6,000 credits, one time
Most calls cost 1 credit. Credits never expire.
Worth knowingOne key for posts, Marketplace and the Ad Library; Page and group posts come up to three per request.
50 credits
$2.00 per 1,000 Facebook results on its $30 pack
From $1.00 per 1,000 on the $1,500 pack.
Worth knowingCharges only for successful results, delivered as JSON, CSV or XLSX.
7-day trial with 5,000 credits
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded response for Meta’s own public Facebook Page. No Facebook login and no Meta app.
GET /v1/facebook/profilecurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/facebook/profile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMeta" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
Meta
facebook.com/Meta
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Page profile2 creditsRecent posts2 creditsRecent reels2 creditsComments on a post2 creditsGroup posts2 creditsPost search12 creditsMarketplace search2 credits
Ad Library search4 credits2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
Meta’s Pages API has no published price, but it is built for Pages your app manages, and reading other Pages needs Page Public Content Access. For public data, most data APIs let you start free: Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Bright Data 5,000 records a month, Apify $5 of usage a month, Thordata a 7-day trial with 5,000 credits, and SociaVault and Adyntel 50 credits each.
Only with Page Public Content Access, which needs App Review and Business Verification, and Meta says you may also need to sign contracts. Its allowed use is to analyse and display posts and engagement on Pages. Before review, an app can only read Pages whose admin also has a role on the app.
Meta removed its Groups API permissions and group app installs on 22 April 2024. Meta Content Library covers posts in public groups for approved researchers, and Monocrawl, Apify, Bright Data, Data365 and SociaVault list public group posts.
Yes. Meta’s Ad Library API, part of the Graph API, returns ads about social issues, elections or politics, and ads delivered to the EU. The public Ad Library website lets anyone search all active ads, and Monocrawl, Apify, Adyntel and SociaVault list Ad Library search, while Data365 lists ad post search.
Monocrawl, Apify, Bright Data and SociaVault publish their own MCP servers, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly. Adyntel’s MCP server covers ads.
Units differ: a request, a result, a record and a credit are not the same size, and some calls return several posts while others return one. Price your own workload, such as a number of Pages or posts a month, with each vendor.
Method
What’s includedMeta’s three official routes, plus widely used data APIs that list Facebook-specific data on their own pages, publish their pricing or offer a trial, and come up across Facebook API searches and comparison lists.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its Facebook data, pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
About MonocrawlMonocrawl is our product and is listed first. Its details come from our live plans and catalogue.
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