facebook

List a Facebook page's events

Returns upcoming and past events for a public Facebook page. Each row carries the event title, the permalink, the start time, the host page's name, and on post.ext.event the rendered time line (time_text, e.g. "Fri, Sep 11 at 5:00 PM CDT"), location_name (the venue), city, start_timestamp, and the is_canceled, is_past and is_online flags. published_at on this lane is the event's START time, not a publication time, so it is routinely in the FUTURE on an upcoming event. The page's event listing carries no cover image, no description and no RSVP counts, so on a plain call post.content.thumbnail_url, post.engagement.views and post.engagement.likes are null. Send include=details and every event is joined, in the same call, to the per-event details lookup: the description, the street address, the coordinates, the hosts (hosts[] and the one-line host_context_text), the category, the privacy, the attendance count, the cover image and the RSVP counts land on each row. An event has no views or likes, so engagement.views then carries the interested count and engagement.likes the going count, with the same numbers under their real names on post.ext.event.interested_count and going_count. Values the row already carried (its shorter time line, its city) are never replaced. Cost: 1 credit for the page plus 1 credit per event filled from a fresh lookup (8 events a page, so 9 credits at most); rows already in cache are filled for free, rows that could not be filled are refunded, and a repeat of the same call within the cache window is 0 credits. Time: include=details adds 2 to 6 seconds on a fresh page (the lookups run in parallel and the call waits for the slowest, never more than 12 seconds) and nothing when the rows are already cached. The response carries a hydration block itemising rows, lookups, cache hits, credits and milliseconds. Forward the returned cursor for additional pages.

get/facebook/profile/events

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
  • URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/facebook/profile/events
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

urlstring required

Full URL of the public Facebook page.

cursorstring

Cursor returned by the previous response for pagination.

include'details'

Set to details (one token only) to fill, on every event in this one call, post.ext.event.description, address, latitude, longitude, hosts, host_context_text, category, privacy, attendance_count, interested_count and going_count, the cover image on post.content.thumbnail_url, and the RSVP counts on post.engagement.views (interested) and .likes (going). Holds 1 credit per event (8 a page) and keeps only the rows filled from a fresh lookup; rows already in cache and rows the lookup cannot fill are refunded, so a page is never more than 9 credits. The join takes 2 to 6 seconds on a fresh page, never more than 12, and nothing when the rows are already cached; read data.hydration for the rows, the credits held and kept, and the time. Without it the call is unchanged.

sincestring

Only rows published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Rows older than it are left off each page. This list is not in date order, so the walk does not stop at the date: keep following next_cursor, and each page costs what a page costs even when every row on it is filtered out. A row with no date is kept. published_after, start_date, from_date, publish_time (yesterday, this-week, this-month, last-3-months, last-6-months) and max_age_days are accepted and applied as since.

untilstring

Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept. published_before, end_date and to_date are accepted and applied as until.

Headers

Cache-Controlstring

Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.

Response

Successful response

successboolean required

Whether the request succeeded

platformstring required

Platform name

endpointstring required

API endpoint path

credits_usedinteger required

Number of credits consumed

credits_remaininginteger nullable required

Current account balance, or null when this response could not establish one. Free cache hits always return null because they do not establish an authoritative post-request balance. An idempotency replay also returns null when its current-balance lookup fails. It is never a fabricated zero, so a zero here means the account really is empty. The authoritative reading is the one on a billed response, which comes straight from the deduction.

request_idstring required

Unique request identifier for support

cachedboolean required

Whether the response was served from cache

idempotent_replayboolean

True only when this response is an idempotency replay

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "facebook",
  "endpoint": "/v1/facebook/profile/events",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "request_id": "req-abc123",
  "idempotent_replay": true,
  "meta": {
    "hint": {
      "code": "search_multi",
      "message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
    }
  },
  "pagination": {
    "next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiMiIsInAiOiJwYWdlIn0",
    "has_more": true,
    "page_size": 30,
    "stopped_at": "known_id"
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.