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Facebook API Facebook Search API for customer and market research
Use SocialListeningAPI to find public Facebook posts where people mention your brand, compare products, or ask for recommendations. Search by keyword and get post text, author details, engagement, media, and source URLs in one response.
- Find public recommendation requests and local demand
- Catch brand, competitor, and product mentions
- Keep source URLs and engagement data in normalized JSON
{
"success": true,
"platform": "facebook",
"endpoint": "/api/v1/facebook/search",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"id": "122123115081122899",
"platform": "facebook",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/example/posts/122123115081122899",
"content": {
"title": null,
"text": "A practical guide to social listening for small teams.",
"media_urls": [],
"thumbnail_url": null
},
"author": {
"id": "author_123",
"username": null,
"display_name": "Alex Morgan",
"avatar_url": "https://example.com/avatar.jpg",
"verified": null
},
"engagement": {
"views": null,
"likes": 48,
"comments": 7,
"shares": 3,
"saves": null
},
"published_at": "2026-08-05T01:30:00.000Z",
"ext": {
"author_url": "https://www.facebook.com/example",
"external_url": null,
"reactions": {
"like": 35,
"love": 10,
"care": 3,
"haha": 0,
"wow": 0,
"sad": 0,
"angry": 0
},
"video": null
}
}
]
},
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": null,
"has_more": false,
"page_size": 1
},
"raw": {
"count": 1,
"pages": 1,
"posts": []
},
"request_id": "req_example123",
"credits_used": 7,
"credits_remaining": 93
}What does the Facebook Search API return?
Send a keyword or phrase to the Facebook Search API and receive normalized JSON. The endpoint maps Facebook post IDs, messages, authors, engagement totals, reaction breakdowns, timestamps, images, source links, and available video data into the shared social-post response.
Results are requested with the provider's most-recent sort. Sentiment is disabled. The public endpoint accepts one search query and currently returns one provider page per request. It does not expose date, location, or pagination controls.
Facebook search results can be incomplete, delayed, duplicated, or unavailable when Facebook changes public access. Use the source URL to review important posts before acting on them.
Try the Facebook Search API
Choose cURL, Axios, or fetch. Add your API key, change the query, and send the request.
curl --get 'https://api.sociallisteningapi.com/api/v1/facebook/search' \
--data-urlencode 'query=social listening' \
--data-urlencode 'raw=true' \
--header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'Why use SocialListeningAPI for Facebook search?
Search Facebook with the same API key, credit balance, and normalized response structure used for LinkedIn, X, Reddit, Hacker News, TikTok, YouTube, and Google results.
Each API returns the same core response shape, so you do not need separate parsing code for every source.
Search public social posts, videos, profiles, Google results, and Discourse forums with one API key.
Failed requests do not use credits. A successful response uses the endpoint's listed credit cost.
Keep available post URLs beside results for review, citations, and follow-up work.
Use normalized fields in your app and inspect the raw provider response when you need more detail.
Playbooks
Use Facebook search in a practical workflow
Follow a playbook to study customer problems, compare category demand, or find product misconceptions in public posts.
MCP integration
Give social listening powers to your chat app
Connect SocialListeningAPI to Claude or ChatGPT. Ask a question in plain language, get actual, realtime results from social media platforms, forums and serps - with source links.
Use it to get brand mentions, scope out competitors, find leads and more - all from within your chat app.
See how the MCP worksClaude · SocialListeningAPI connected
MCP toolsearch_social_posts
reddit · "social listening API cost"Public posts returned with source URLs · 1 credit
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Facebook Search API questions
Can I search Facebook posts by keyword through an API?
Does the Facebook Search API include sentiment analysis?
What does one Facebook search request cost?
What fields does the Facebook Search API return?
Does the endpoint find every matching Facebook post?
Can I filter Facebook results by date or location?
Make your first Facebook search request
Create an account, copy your API key, and use 100 free credits to test public post search.
