groups Guides

Every Facebook group scraping task eventually hits the same wall: the member list is paginated in small pages, and naive collection loses people at the seams. This guide shows the exact protocol we use in production at GetSocialAPI — the same one the group members endpoint implements.

A Facebook group feed is not a flat list of posts. It mixes real posts with section headers ("New members", "Suggested for you") and promotions — and a naive collector happily saves the noise as content. Here is what the group posts endpoint actually returns and how to walk it.