Search Facebook posts by hashtag

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Discover public Facebook posts tagged with a hashtag, with post text, author, time, engagement counts, ordered media attachments and continuation. Each call returns up to about ten posts.

GET/v1/facebook/hashtagx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

hashtagstringrequiredquery

Hashtag to discover posts for, with or without the leading #: letters, digits and underscores, up to 100 characters.

min 1 chars · max 101 chars

Exampletravel

cursorstringquery

Opaque continuation from this service. Preserve it exactly; cursors are source- and route-specific.

min 1 chars · max 16000 chars

Response fields

dataobjectoptional

Normalized result with author, post, event or listing data and per-item coverage where applicable.

Optional.

hydration.totalinteger

Always included.

hydration.enrichedinteger

Always included.

hydration.failedinteger

Always included.

successboolean

True when usable public data is returned.

statusenum

success or partial on HTTP 200; failed or challenged on failure.

one of: success, partial

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

sourceUrlstring

Canonical public Facebook page used for retrieval.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Completeness of this bounded response. Warnings name restricted, missing, interrupted or unavailable optional data.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

Counted upstream requests, decoded response bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

Public posts tagged with the hashtag, in the source's ranking order; empty when the hashtag has no public posts.

up to 100 items

Always included.

up to 100 items

posts.mediaAttachments.idstring | numbernullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.indexinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

posts.mediaAttachments.typeenum

Always included.

one of: image, video, gif, unknown

posts.mediaAttachments.urlstringnullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.thumbnailUrlstringnullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.widthnumbernullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.heightnumbernullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.bestVideo.urlstring

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.bestVideo.widthnumbernullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.bestVideo.heightnumbernullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.bestVideo.bitratenumbernullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.bestVideo.hasAudiobooleannullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.bestVideo.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: progressive, dash

posts.mediaAttachments.bestVideo.mimeTypestringnullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.audioUrlstringnullable

Always included.

up to 100 items

posts.mediaAttachments.variants.urlstring

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.variants.widthnumbernullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.variants.heightnumbernullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.variants.bitratenumbernullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.variants.hasAudiobooleannullable

Always included.

posts.mediaAttachments.variants.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: progressive, dash

posts.mediaAttachments.variants.mimeTypestringnullable

Always included.

cursorstringnullable

Opaque continuation from this service. Preserve it exactly; cursors are source- and route-specific.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with explicit missing/failed auxiliary coverage.
400	`invalid_request`	Malformed, duplicate, conflicting or unsupported parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid service API key.
403	`restricted_page`	The resource is private or restricted.
404	`not_found`	Unknown route or missing resource.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Facebook throttled retrieval.
502	`upstream_challenged` `upstream_error` `unsupported_page`	Source challenge, failure or unsupported/mismatched structure.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex` `request_limit` `unsafe_redirect`	Bounded retrieval or fixed-origin policy failed.
503	`busy`	All Facebook worker slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Request deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/hashtag?hashtag=travel" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/hashtag?hashtag=travel",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/hashtag?hashtag=travel",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Facebook request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/hashtag",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "hashtag": "travel"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/hashtag?hashtag=travel", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/hashtag?hashtag=travel"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "partial",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/travel",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_web",
    "complete": false,
    "warnings": [
      "synthetic_example"
    ]
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 1200,
    "durationMs": 500
  },
  "posts": [],
  "cursor": null
}

Malformed, duplicate, conflicting or unsupported parameters.

{
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  }
}