Facebook

Group

A group: its name, description, privacy, members and history, as its About page shows them logged out.

GET/v1/facebook/groups1 credit
x-api-key*stringrequiredheader

Your API key, made in the dashboard.

Parameters

2
group_idstringoptionalquery

A group's id: the digits in its link (facebook.com/groups/<id>). Give group_id or url.

example: 366190054572553

urlstringoptionalquery

A group's link: facebook.com/groups/<id or name>, with anything after it. Give group_id or url.

max 300 chars

Response fields

21
dataobject

The result: one object, or a list for the endpoints that return several.

data.idstring

Facebook's id for the group: digits, written as text.

data.urlstring

The group's link.

data.namestringnullable

Its name.

data.descriptionstringnullable

Its About text.

data.privacystringnullable

Public or Private.

data.visibilitystringnullable

Visible or Hidden: whether anyone can find it.

data.membersintegernullable

Members; Facebook rounds large numbers (759.2K).

data.historystringnullable

When it was made and renamed, as Facebook writes it.

data.coverstringnullable

Its cover photo's link.

pageobjectnullable

Paging, for the endpoints that page; null for the others.

page.next_cursorstringnullable

Send it as the cursor parameter, with the same other parameters, for the next page. Null on the last page.

page.has_morebooleanoptional

Whether another page follows.

default: false

metaobject

About this call.

meta.platformstring

The platform: reddit, threads, tiktok or youtube.

meta.endpointstring

The endpoint's name, such as channel_videos.

meta.paramsobject

The call's parameters, defaults included. Parameters without a value, and the cursor, are left out.

meta.request_idstring

This call's id. Quote it when you report a problem.

meta.api_versionstring

The API version that answered.

meta.fetched_atstring

When the data was fetched from the platform (UTC).

format: date-time

meta.cachedbooleanoptional

Whether it came from our cache; fetched_at says how old it is.

default: false

Code example

curl -X GET 'https://api.socialparse.dev/v1/facebook/groups?group_id=366190054572553' \  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

Responses

Successful Response

{  "data": {    "id": "string",    "url": "string",    "name": "string",    "description": "string",    "privacy": "string",    "visibility": "string",    "members": 0,    "history": "string",    "cover": "string"  },  "page": {    "next_cursor": "string",    "has_more": false  },  "meta": {    "platform": "string",    "endpoint": "string",    "params": {      "property1": "string",      "property2": "string"    },    "request_id": "string",    "api_version": "string",    "fetched_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",    "cached": false  }}