---
title: "Facebook Profile Reels API"
method: GET
path: "/v1/facebook/profile-reels"
tags: ["Facebook"]
---

# Facebook Profile Reels API

`GET /v1/facebook/profile-reels`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.captapi.com`
- URL: `https://api.captapi.com/v1/facebook/profile-reels`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-API-Key`

Latest Facebook page Reels — views, likes, comments, shares; newest-first without archive padding.

Pass a Facebook page or profile URL and get that account's recent Reels as clean JSON: caption, publishedAt, duration, thumbnail / video URL, author, and full engagement (views, likes, comments, shares). Results are newest-first. Listing uses the Reels tab when available (else Videos), with a shallow scroll so years-old archive videos from deep /videos history are not mixed in; a >1 year gap between consecutive items stops the page (recency cliff). Includes scrapedAt so you can compare counts with Profile Posts from the same moment. Flat 2 credits per call. Pass cache=true to serve from the 24h shared cache (0 credits on hit); default is always fresh. Hard deadline 90s → 503 with a body (0 credits), not a raw client timeout. A missing or non-public page is 404; a Reels tab that did not render is a retryable 502 FACEBOOK_RENDER_FAILED (0 credits). Each reel carries mediaUrlsExpireAt for its signed thumbnail / video URLs.

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/facebook-profile-reels

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required
- `limit` integer
- `cache` boolean

## Response `200`

Success. The data object for this endpoint.

- object
  - `success` unknown, required
  - `data` object, required
    - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
    - `totalReturned` integer: Number of items returned in this response.
    - `reels` object[]
      - `platform` string: Platform identifier for this response (matches the endpoint's platform).
      - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
      - `id` string: Id of this reels item.
      - `caption` string, nullable: Post or creative caption when the platform exposes one.
      - `description` string, nullable: Description of this reels item.
      - `publishedAt` string: Publish date (ISO 8601) when the platform exposes an absolute timestamp.
      - `durationSeconds` number: Length in seconds for this item (full media length, or a segment span when the endpoint documents a start/end).
      - `thumbnailUrl` string: Thumbnail image URL.
      - `author` object: Author name or handle.
        - `id` string: Id of this reels item.
        - `username` string
        - `displayName` string
        - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
        - `profileImage` string
        - `verified` boolean
      - `engagement` object: Engagement metrics for the item.
        - `likes` integer
        - `comments` integer
        - `views` integer
        - `shares` integer
        - `likesIsApproximate` boolean
        - `commentsIsApproximate` boolean
        - `sharesIsApproximate` boolean
        - `viewsIsApproximate` boolean
      - `isVideo` boolean: Whether the item is a video.
      - `link` string, nullable: Link URL.
      - `feedbackId` string: Facebook feedback id for the post (useful for comments threading).
      - `video` object: Object with id, url, sdUrl, hdUrl, width, height.
        - `id` string: Id of this reels item.
        - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
        - `sdUrl` string
        - `hdUrl` string
        - `width` integer
        - `height` integer
      - `mediaUrlsExpireAt` string: ISO-8601 UTC earliest expiry across signed media URLs in this response (expire= / x-expires / TikTok hex path timestamp). Null when no stamp is parseable — never a guess.
    - `scrapedAt` string: When this response was collected (ISO 8601). Envelope-level freshness on listings that expose it (e.g. Facebook profile-reels) — not a per-row stamp on Spotify search. facebook/profile-posts uses fetchedAt; there is no scrapedAt twin.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request: wrong platform URL, unknown endpoint, or an invalid parameter value. Not billed.
- `401`: Missing, invalid or revoked API key. Not billed.
- `402`: Not enough credits for this request. Not billed.
- `404`: The resource does not exist or is not public. Not billed.
- `422`: A required parameter is missing or has the wrong type. Not billed.
- `429`: Rate limit reached. Wait for Retry-After seconds. Not billed.
- `502`: The platform could not be reached or returned nothing usable. Retryable, not billed. 503 and 504 use the same envelope.

## Changes

- **2026-10-19** `c9b9ac5ff1bd`: 3 breaking, 1 warning, 8 info
  - the response property `data/reels/items/caption` became nullable for the status `200`
  - the response property `data/reels/items/description` became nullable for the status `200`
  - the response property `data/reels/items/link` became nullable for the status `200`
  - removed the optional property `data/reels/items/videoUrl` from the response with the `200` status
  - …8 more

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/captapi/apis/captapi-api/changes/v1/facebook/profile-reels/get.md)

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