Data Sources - Facebook Pages

Owned by Paul Tober
Last updated: Jan 02, 2024 by Justin Shackelford
2 min read

HootVid’s latest feature brings you the power of on-demand scraping for any public Facebook page. Simply place a Facebook page URL into the new data source tab within HootVid and within a few seconds, you will have a data feed of that page. These feeds update nightly, or anytime you manually re-fetch them (if it is needed at a higher frequency contact support). Scraped data includes images, headlines, post content, post date, and post author. These data feeds operate like any other source and can be used to quickly create ads utilizing our general or Facebook specific templates.

These Templates are a great option for advertisers that might not have a great website or up to date dynamic content, but invest in maintaining a curated Facebook presence.

Piggly Wiggly Video Ad Example FB
Piggly Wiggly example ad made within 10 mins start to finish with HootVid FB Scrapes.

Creating A Facebook Page Data Source Scrape

  1. Create a new data source

  2. Within the Feed URL field, insert any public Facebook page URL.

  3. Upon Saving your new source, HootVid will initially scrape the page and create a schedule to continue scraping the page daily (unless another frequency is requested).

  4. Refresh this data source anytime by clicking “fetch now” within the ad edit page or the date sources page.

Only Facebook pages that are public are subject to configuration. If your page is private, we will not be able to index.