Facebook Page Photo Gallery & Engagement Scraper: MCP config, n8n workflow and API

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos"
    }
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 1,
  "photoTab": "uploaded",
  "includeAlbums": false,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "storeImages": true
}

---
name: facebook-page-photo-gallery-and-engagement-scraper
description: "One row per public Facebook photo with image and thumbnail links, caption, timestamp, reaction breakdown, comments, shares, tagged people, owner/page/album/post context, and source metadata. Runs the Apify Actor vexaloom-labs/facebook-page-photo-gallery-and-engagement-scraper. Use when the user needs Facebook data with fields such as photoId, photoUrl, imageUrl, thumbnailUrl, caption, pageName and an Apify token is available."
compatibility: "Needs network access, curl, and an APIFY_TOKEN environment variable. Runs are billed to the token owner's Apify account."
metadata:
  actor: "vexaloom-labs/facebook-page-photo-gallery-and-engagement-scraper"
  store-url: "https://apify.com/vexaloom-labs/facebook-page-photo-gallery-and-engagement-scraper"
---

# Facebook Page Photo Gallery & Engagement Scraper

Use this skill to fetch Facebook data with the Apify Actor `vexaloom-labs/facebook-page-photo-gallery-and-engagement-scraper` and work with the returned rows.

## Before running

1. Check that `APIFY_TOKEN` is set in the environment. Never print it or write it to a file.
2. Build `input.json` from the user's request using the fields below. Keep limits small for a first run.
3. Confirm the search terms or URLs with the user if the request is ambiguous.

## Input fields

| Field | Type | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `startUrls` | array, required | Facebook page, profile, photos tab, tagged tab, albums tab, album, or single-photo URL. Bare handles such as nasa are accepted too. |
| `resultsLimit` | integer | Global cap across all Start URLs. The actor keeps paginating until this many photos are collected or the source runs out. |
| `newerThan` | string | Only include photos posted on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Applied by Facebook for page and tagged tabs. For albums the actor reads each photo timestamp (even with includeDetails off) and applies the bound; rows stay grid-only. |
| `olderThan` | string | Only include photos posted on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Applied by Facebook for page and tagged tabs. For albums the actor reads each photo timestamp (even with includeDetails off) and applies the bound; rows stay grid-only. |
| `photoTab` | one of `uploaded`, `tagged` | For page and profile URLs: photos uploaded by the page, or photos where the page is tagged by others. Ignored for album and photo URLs. |
| `includeAlbums` | boolean | For page and profile URLs, also walk every album listed on the page's Albums tab and collect its photos. A photos_albums URL implies this automatically. |
| `includeDetails` | boolean | Open each photo to add its caption, timestamp, reactions, comments, shares, tagged people, owner, album, and post link. Turn off for a fast grid-only export; album date bounds still read only the timestamp needed for filtering. |
| `storeImages` | boolean | Copy each full-size image and thumbnail to Apify storage and return non-expiring URLs. The signed Facebook originals and their expiry are kept in the record. |

Example `input.json` (the Actor's published prefill):

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos"
    }
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 1,
  "photoTab": "uploaded",
  "includeAlbums": false,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "storeImages": true
}
```

## Run

```bash
curl -sS -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/vexaloom-labs~facebook-page-photo-gallery-and-engagement-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @input.json > results.json
```

The call waits for the run to finish and returns the dataset items as a JSON array. If the run needs more than 300 seconds the API answers with HTTP 408; then start the run with `POST /v2/acts/vexaloom-labs~facebook-page-photo-gallery-and-engagement-scraper/runs`, poll `GET /v2/actor-runs/{runId}` until `SUCCEEDED`, and read `GET /v2/datasets/{defaultDatasetId}/items`.

## Output

Each item is one record. Published fields include: `photoId`, `photoUrl`, `imageUrl`, `thumbnailUrl`, `caption`, `pageName`, `timestamp`, `reactionsTotal`, `commentsCount`, `shareCount`, `imageUrlOriginal`, `imageExpiresAt`, `imageWidth`, `imageHeight`, `thumbnailUrlOriginal`, `altText`, `ocrText`, `createdTime`, `likesCount`, `likeCount`.

Summarise what was found, cite the record URLs when present, and say how many items came back. Do not invent values for empty fields.