{
  "description": "Extract public comments and reply threads from Facebook posts, photos, reels, videos, and public group posts. Returns comment text, author details, per-reaction-type counts, timestamps, reply context, and the post's own comment totals. No login or cookies required.",
  "properties": {
    "commentsMode": {
      "default": "ALL",
      "description": "Which comment view to scrape: MOST_RELEVANT (Facebook's ranked view), NEWEST (all comments, newest first), or ALL (Facebook's unfiltered ranked view, including comments its ranked view may hide).",
      "enum": [
        "ALL",
        "NEWEST",
        "MOST_RELEVANT"
      ],
      "enumTitles": [
        "All comments (Facebook's unfiltered view)",
        "Newest first",
        "Most relevant (Facebook's ranked view)"
      ],
      "prefill": "MOST_RELEVANT",
      "title": "Comment ordering",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "includeNestedComments": {
      "default": true,
      "description": "If true, also scrape reply rows under top-level comments (with parent/reply metadata). If false, only top-level comments are collected (faster).",
      "prefill": true,
      "title": "Include replies",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "maxItems": {
      "default": 100,
      "description": "Maximum number of comment rows (including replies) to collect per URL. The run also stops when Facebook has no more comments or replies to serve.",
      "maximum": 10000,
      "minimum": 1,
      "prefill": 5,
      "sectionCaption": "Limits",
      "title": "Max comments per URL",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "maxReplyDepth": {
      "default": 1,
      "description": "How deep into reply threads to collect: 1 = direct replies to top-level comments only, 2 or more = also include deeper nested replies. Facebook serves reply threads with up to two nesting levels to anonymous visitors.",
      "maximum": 5,
      "minimum": 1,
      "prefill": 1,
      "title": "Max reply nesting depth",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "onlyCommentsNewerThan": {
      "description": "Limit results to comments posted after this date. Accepts YYYY-MM-DD, a full ISO 8601 timestamp (e.g. 2024-06-15T12:00:00Z), or a relative value like '1 day', '2 weeks', '3 months', '1 year'. When set, comments are fetched newest-first so the filter can stop as soon as an older comment is reached. Leave blank to disable date filtering.",
      "editor": "textfield",
      "title": "Only comments newer than",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "startUrls": {
      "description": "Facebook post, photo, reel, video, Watch, or public group post URLs (one or more). Comment permalinks (URLs containing ?comment_id=) are accepted and resolved to their post; legacy story.php, permalink.php and share links are normalized automatically. Most public reels and videos are supported; a minority restricted by Facebook return no thread and are reported.",
      "editor": "requestListSources",
      "prefill": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.facebook.com/NASA/posts/pfbid025kwyoBjhFGUC22fC4Sies56D5xvd65ZHR5PYjHhc7XSzqGsxuWq2uDVriZNxWbeol"
        }
      ],
      "sectionCaption": "Input",
      "sectionDescription": "Provide one or more public Facebook URLs to scrape comments from.",
      "title": "Facebook URLs",
      "type": "array"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "startUrls"
  ],
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "title": "Facebook Comment Thread Extractor",
  "type": "object"
}