How to scrape Facebook Events with Node.js

Events This tutorial gets it with a short Node.js program and the Facebook Events API. Each successful call costs 1 credit; errors and not-found answers are free.

1. Get an API key

Sign in to get a key and 100 free credits, no card. Then put the key in an environment variable so it stays out of your code:

export SCRAPEIO_API_KEY="your_key_here"

2. Set up Node.js

Node 18 or newer; fetch is built in

3. Write the code

Save this as scrape.mjs. Replace PASTE_URL_HERE with a real url.

const url = new URL("https://scrapeio.com/v1/facebook/events");
url.searchParams.set("url", "PASTE_URL_HERE");
const headers = { "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEIO_API_KEY };

const items = [];
while (true) {
  const res = await fetch(url, { headers });
  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${res.status}`);
  const { data } = await res.json();
  items.push(...(data.items ?? []));
  if (!data.has_more || !data.cursor || items.length >= 100) break;
  url.searchParams.set("cursor", data.cursor);
}
console.log(items.length, "items");
console.log(items.slice(0, 3));

The loop follows data.cursor until data.has_more is false, and stops at 100 items. Each page is one call, so it costs 1 credit.

4. Run it

node scrape.mjs

The response has the same envelope on every endpoint: success, cached, credits_used, credits_remaining and data. Shared fields such as handle, followers, plays, likes and created_at have the same names on every platform.

Parameters

Errors and what you pay

Same endpoint in other languages

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Prefer no code?

Connect the MCP server to Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and ask in plain English. The agent uses call_endpoint with path /v1/facebook/events for you.

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