Get a Facebook post or Reel by URL · Facebook API
Returns one public Facebook post or Reel by its URL: author, text, media, music and reaction, comment and share counts. Set `include_comments` or `include_transcript` for a comment sample or a video transcript. Returns `not_found` when the post does not exist or is not public.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/facebook/posts?url= \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"
Parameters
- urlqueryrequired
- Public permalink to the Facebook post or reel.
- include_commentsquery
- When true, includes a sample of top-level comments when available.
- include_transcriptquery
- When true, includes a plain-text transcript when available for the video.
- 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
- Fetch canonical public Facebook content for summarization, ranking, monitoring, or enrichment.
- Attach engagement, author, media, and source metadata to an agent workflow.
- 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
- Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
- The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.
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 in the data object
A successful Get a Facebook post or Reel by URL call returns one data object with these fields (12 of 18 shown — the docs list the full schema).
- platformstring | null
- Social platform for this content. One of: facebook.
- post_idstring | null
- Platform post id when available.
- urlstring | null
- Canonical or resolved public URL for this post or reel.
- descriptionstring | null
- Caption or body text when available.
- published_atnumber | null
- Publication timestamp in ISO 8601 when available. Unix seconds.
- is_paid_partnershipboolean | null
- Whether the post is labelled as a paid partnership. Null or omitted when Facebook does not say.
- feedback_idstring | null
- Opaque feedback identifier when exposed by the platform; may be used for related lookups.
- link_attachmentobject | null
- Link preview for posts that share an external link. Null when the post has no link attachment.
- authorobject | null
- Author when found.
- like_countnumber | null
- Like count when available.
- comment_countnumber | null
- Comment count when available.
- share_countnumber | null
- Share count when available.
More Facebook operations
Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.
Search Facebook Marketplace listings
Returns Facebook Marketplace listings for a keyword near a latitude and longitude, with price, condition and delivery filters. Paginate with `cursor`.
List comments on a Facebook post or Reel
Returns top-level comments on a public Facebook post or Reel by URL. A comment's `replies_cursor` lists its replies through /facebook/posts/comments/replies. Paginate with `cursor`.
Get the transcript of a Facebook video post
Returns the spoken-word transcript of a public Facebook video post or Reel by URL, for videos up to a few minutes long. Returns `not_found` when the post does not exist.
List replies to a Facebook comment
Returns replies to one Facebook comment. Pass the comment's `replies_cursor` as `cursor`, then each response's `pagination.next_cursor` for the next page.
List posts in a public Facebook group
Returns posts from a public Facebook group with text, media, author and engagement counts. Paginate with `cursor`.
List posts from a Facebook profile or Page
Returns recent public posts from a Facebook profile or Page with text, media and reaction, comment and share counts. Paginate with `cursor`.