List Facebook events for a city · Facebook API
Returns public Facebook events for a city from its Facebook Events explore URL, optionally limited to a time window. Paginate with `cursor`.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/facebook/events/explore?url= \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"
Parameters
- urlqueryrequired
- Public Facebook Events explore URL for a city.
- timequery
- Optional time window for events.
- cursorquery
- Opaque pagination cursor from a previous response's `pagination.next_cursor`. Omit for the first page.
- The parameter for this Facebook operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
This operation is part of the Facebook API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs Facebook public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Look up public Facebook data for agents that need reliable open-web context.
- Give an AI agent a stable Facebook data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize Facebook responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
- The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 3 credits ($0.003) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields on each record in data
A successful List Facebook events for a city call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields (12 of 13 shown — the docs list the full schema).
- idstring | null
- Stable event identifier.
- urlstring | null
- Canonical public event URL when available.
- namestring | null
- Event name.
- coverobject | null
- Cover image for the event.
- is_onlineboolean | null
- Whether the event is online when available.
- is_pastboolean | null
- Whether the event has already ended when available.
- is_happening_nowboolean | null
- Whether the event is happening now when available.
- starts_atnumber | null
- Event start time as an ISO-8601 timestamp when available. Unix seconds.
- day_time_labelstring | null
- Human-readable date and time label when available.
- placeobject | null
- Venue or place associated with the event.
- kindstring | null
- Event visibility kind when available, such as public or private.
- socialobject | null
- Attendance context for the event.
More Facebook operations
Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.
Get a Facebook event
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Returns ads from the Meta Ad Library for one advertiser Page id, with country, status, media type, language and date filters. Find Page ids with /facebook/advertisers/search. Paginate with `cursor`.
Get a public Facebook group
Returns a public Facebook group by id or vanity name: name, description, privacy, member count and activity. Returns `not_found` when the group does not exist or is not public.
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