# ✅ Facebook Follower Count Tracker, Page Analytics & Scraper (`k1ra/facebook-follower-count-scraper`) Actor

Facebook follower count tracker & analytics — track Facebook followers, monitor page growth, pull follower & following counts + follower analytics in bulk. No login, no cookies. One engine also covers TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Threads & Reddit.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/k1ra/facebook-follower-count-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Kevin Savani](https://apify.com/k1ra) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Lead generation, Social media
- **Stats:** 22 total users, 12 monthly users, 99.7% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## ✅ Facebook Follower Count Tracker, Page Analytics & Scraper

Track the **Facebook follower count** of any public Page or profile in bulk — no login, no cookies, no Graph API approval. Paste page handles, hit Start, and get live follower and following counts back as clean JSON. Schedule it on a cron and it becomes a **Facebook follower tracker** that logs page growth over time. Built for brand managers, social media analysts, and agencies who need Facebook audience numbers without Meta Business Suite access.

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### What It Does

This actor is a dedicated **Facebook follower count scraper and tracker**. Give it one handle or thousands — it visits each public Facebook Page, reads the live **follower count** and **following count**, and returns a structured row per page. No Meta login, no cookies, no API token, no rate-limit approval cycle.

- **Facebook follower count** — live follower number for any public Page or profile.
- **Following count** — how many accounts the Page follows.
- **Bulk mode** — pass hundreds or thousands of handles in a single run.
- **No login, no cookies** — public data only, no session tokens or Graph API keys.
- **Schedule it** — run daily/weekly to track Facebook page follower growth over time.

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### What's New

**July 2026**

- **Following count** is returned for Facebook Pages alongside the follower count.
- **Exact follower counts** — precise Facebook numbers, not rounded.
- **Faster runs** — a leaner engine returns results quicker (the same engine also now returns TikTok likes and LinkedIn connections across the 8-platform bundle).

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### Use Cases

#### Facebook Follower Count Scraper

Pull the live **Facebook follower count** for any public Page — competitors, clients, sponsorship targets, or your own brand. A self-hosted alternative to checking each page by hand or paying for a social analytics suite.

#### Facebook Follower Tracker (Page Growth Monitoring)

Schedule the actor on a cron and it becomes a **Facebook follower tracker** — log each page's follower count daily or weekly, pipe the dataset to a sheet or BI tool, and watch growth, plateaus, and drops across every page you care about.

#### Bulk Facebook Page Follower Count

Drop in a whole list of page handles for **bulk Facebook page follower count** extraction in one run. Ideal for agencies reporting on a roster of clients, or analysts sizing an entire competitor set or vertical at once.

#### Facebook Follower Analytics & Page Growth Monitor

Use the time-series of follower counts as lightweight **Facebook follower analytics** — a **Facebook follower monitor** that tracks **Facebook page growth** week over week. Spot follower spikes after campaigns, flag drops, and benchmark growth rate across pages without Meta Business Suite.

#### Competitor & Brand Monitoring

Track every competitor's **Facebook page followers** alongside your own. Feed the numbers into a dashboard for share-of-audience reporting, campaign benchmarking, and social media KPI tracking.

#### Lead Enrichment & Social Proof

Enrich CRM records and prospect lists with up-to-date Facebook follower counts and page URLs — a drop-in social-proof signal for sales and partnership outreach.

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### Who Uses This

| Use Case | Who It's For |
|---|---|
| Facebook page follower growth tracking | Social media managers, brand teams |
| Competitor Facebook monitoring & benchmarking | Growth teams, agencies |
| Client reporting across many pages | Marketing & PR agencies |
| Influencer / partnership vetting | Sponsorship & BD teams |
| Lead enrichment & social proof | Sales & outreach teams |

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### Output

Every page returns a clean, structured JSON row, ready for CSV/Excel export or downstream pipelines:

```json
{
  "username": "zuck",
  "platform": "facebook",
  "followers": 119000000,
  "following": 530,
  "posts": null,
  "profileUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/zuck/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-16T10:00:00.000Z"
}
```

Fields are properly typed, dates are ISO-8601, and any metric that couldn't be read comes back `null` — the run never crashes on a single bad page. Pages that are private, deleted, or don't exist are **not** pushed to the dataset, so you're never billed for empty rows.

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### How to Use

**1.** In the **Input** tab, paste Facebook page handles into the **Facebook Pages & Profiles** field — one per line.

**2.** Leave proxy settings as they are — the built-in proxy works out of the box. Optionally pick your own in **Proxy Configuration**.

**3.** Click **Start** — results appear in the **Dataset** tab as each page completes.

```json
{
  "facebook": ["zuck", "MetaAI", "nasa"]
}
```

**Input format:**

| Field | Format | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Facebook | page handle (the part after `facebook.com/`) | `zuck` |

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### Proxy Setup

The actor ships with a built-in proxy that works out of the box — no configuration needed. Optionally supply your own proxy in the **Proxy Configuration** field if you prefer a specific provider or pool.

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### Pricing

**$5 per 1,000 pages scraped ($0.005 per page).**

| Pages scraped | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| 10 | ~$0.05 |
| 100 | ~$0.50 |
| 1,000 | ~$5.00 |

*Apify Proxy data transfer is billed separately if you use Apify Proxy.*

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### Schedule & Automate

Use Apify's built-in **Scheduler** to run this actor on a cron — daily, weekly, or hourly — and turn it into a continuous **Facebook follower tracker**. Connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, Slack, or any webhook via the Apify API to build a live page-growth dashboard or alerting pipeline.

- **Make** ([docs](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make)) — trigger follower-count scrapes from any scenario.
- **Zapier** ([docs](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier)) — pipe results into CRM enrichment and alerts.
- **Google Sheets** — auto-export every run for a live follower-tracker sheet.
- **Slack** ([docs](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/slack)) — get notified when a run finishes or a count crosses a threshold.
- **Apify API** — full programmatic control via the official Node.js and Python clients.

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### Need Other Platforms? Same Engine, One Run

This actor runs on an all-in-one follower engine — the **same engine also tracks follower and subscriber counts on 7 more platforms** with no cookies or login. Need more than Facebook? Use the bundle:

| Platform | Data Returned |
|---|---|
| **TikTok** | Followers, following, likes, video count |
| **YouTube** | Subscribers, video count |
| **Instagram** | Followers, following, post count |
| **Twitter / X** | Followers, following, tweet count |
| **LinkedIn** (personal & company) | Followers, connections |
| **Reddit** (subreddits) | Members, online now, weekly visitors |
| **Threads** | Followers |
| **Facebook** | Followers, following |

➡️ [**All-in-One Social Media Followers Scraper**](https://apify.com/k1ra/social-media-followers-scraper) — all 8 platforms in a single run.

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### FAQ

**Do I need a Facebook account, cookies, or the Graph API?**
No. The actor reads only **public** Facebook page data — no login, no cookies, no API token, no app review. A built-in proxy handles access automatically.

**Can I track Facebook follower growth over time?**
Yes. Schedule the actor on a cron and export each run to a sheet or warehouse. Comparing the daily/weekly **follower count** per page gives you a full **Facebook follower tracker** and **Facebook follower monitor** — and the run history doubles as **Facebook follower analytics** for **page growth** reporting, with no extra tooling.

**Can I scrape many Facebook pages at once?**
Yes. Paste as many handles as you need — the actor processes them concurrently in a single run for **bulk Facebook page follower count** extraction.

**What if a page is private, deleted, or unavailable?**
Failed pages are not pushed to the dataset (you're not billed for them). The run continues for every other page, and a failure list (`username`, `reason`) is written to the run's Key-Value Store under `FAILED-PROFILES`.

**How fresh is the data?**
Every run scrapes live. There is no caching.

**Can I export to a spreadsheet or call it via API?**
Yes. Export the dataset to CSV/Excel from **Storage → Dataset → Export**, or trigger runs and fetch results programmatically via the Apify API and official SDKs.

**Is it legal to scrape public Facebook pages?**
The actor extracts only **publicly available** page data and does not bypass authentication walls or access private content. You are responsible for compliance with Facebook's Terms and applicable laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) when using the data.

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### ⭐ Bookmark & Review

If this **Facebook follower count tracker** saves you time, click the ⭐ at the top of the page to bookmark it and leave a quick review — it helps other Apify users find it and tells us what to build next.

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### Support & Feedback

Found a bug or want another platform or metric? Open an issue on the actor's **Issues** tab in the Apify Console — feature requests welcome.

# Actor input Schema

## `facebook` (type: `array`):

Facebook page or profile handles to track — bulk Facebook page follower count scraper and growth tracker for brand monitoring. Returns follower and following counts. No login, no cookies required.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. The actor uses a built-in proxy by default. Provide your own proxy here only if you need a specific provider or residential pool.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "facebook": [
    "zuck"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `username` (type: `string`):

The profile username or subreddit name

## `platform` (type: `string`):

The social media platform (instagram, facebook, threads, tiktok, twitter, youtube, reddit, linkedin)

## `followers` (type: `string`):

Total follower or subscriber count. Null if not available.

## `following` (type: `string`):

Number of accounts the profile follows. Null if not available.

## `posts` (type: `string`):

Total number of posts or videos. Null if not available.

## `likes` (type: `string`):

TikTok only — total likes across all videos. Null if not available.

## `connections` (type: `string`):

LinkedIn personal profiles only — connection count (LinkedIn caps the public value at 500+). Null if not available.

## `members` (type: `string`):

Reddit only — total subreddit member count.

## `weeklyVisitors` (type: `string`):

Reddit only — unique visitors in the past week.

## `weeklyContributions` (type: `string`):

Reddit only — posts and comments submitted in the past week.

## `precision` (type: `string`):

'exact' when the published follower count is precise, 'rounded' when the profile only exposes a rounded value (e.g. 1.2K).

## `profileUrl` (type: `string`):

Direct URL to the scraped profile or subreddit.

## `scrapedAt` (type: `string`):

ISO 8601 timestamp of when the data was scraped.

## `error` (type: `string`):

Error message if the profile could not be scraped. Only present when extraction failed.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "facebook": [
        "zuck"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("k1ra/facebook-follower-count-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "facebook": ["zuck"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("k1ra/facebook-follower-count-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "facebook": [
    "zuck"
  ]
}' |
apify call k1ra/facebook-follower-count-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=k1ra/facebook-follower-count-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/59vV9GCzRy8xBeufT/builds/MUUYs8gS6dU0pUHvJ/openapi.json