---
title: "Search Facebook Posts"
method: GET
path: "/v1/facebook/posts"
tags: ["Facebook"]
---

# Search Facebook Posts

`GET /v1/facebook/posts`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://apidirect.io`
- URL: `https://apidirect.io/v1/facebook/posts`
- Auth: API key in header `X-API-Key`

Search for Facebook posts globally by keyword. Supports date filtering, sorting, and location filtering.

**Price:** $0.008 per page. **Free tier:** 50 requests/month.

## Query parameters

- `query` string, required
- `location_id` string
- `pages` integer
- `start_date` string
- `end_date` string
- `sort_by` 'most_recent' | 'relevance'
- `get_sentiment` boolean

## Response `200`

Successful response

- SearchFacebookPostsResponse: Inferred from a live response. Any field can be null or absent, and new fields may be added at any time.
  - `count` number, nullable
  - `pages` number, nullable
  - `posts` object[], nullable
    - `author_id` string, nullable
    - `author_name` string, nullable
    - `author_profile_picture` string, nullable
    - `author_url` string, nullable
    - `comments_count` number, nullable
    - `date` string, nullable
    - `external_url` unknown
    - `image_url` string, nullable
    - `message` string, nullable
    - `post_id` string, nullable
    - `reactions` object, nullable
      - `angry` number, nullable
      - `care` number, nullable
      - `haha` number, nullable
      - `like` number, nullable
      - `love` number, nullable
      - `sad` number, nullable
      - `wow` number, nullable
    - `reactions_count` number, nullable
    - `reshare_count` number, nullable
    - `timestamp` number, nullable
    - `url` string, nullable
    - `video` unknown

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request: missing or invalid parameter
- `401`: Unauthorized: invalid or missing API key
- `402`: Free tier used up for this endpoint and no payment method on file (`payment_required`).
- `403`: Account blocked after a failed payment (`account_blocked`).
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded, or more than 10 concurrent requests to this endpoint
- `500`: Internal server error
- `502`: Temporary failure retrieving Facebook data. Please retry shortly.
- `503`: Service temporarily unavailable
- `504`: The request timed out

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