Facebook has over 3 billion monthly active users and remains the largest social-media platform on earth. Public page posts, Reels, and video ads regularly accumulate thousands of comments — and unlike TikTok or YouTube, Facebook gives you no native way to export them.
If you're running ad campaigns, doing competitive research, or analyzing audience sentiment on a creator page, you need the raw comment data in a spreadsheet. This guide walks you through exporting Facebook comments to CSV in under 60 seconds, with no Facebook login, no developer account, and no API keys.
What you'll be able to do
After exporting, you'll have a CSV with one row per comment containing:
- Comment text (full Unicode — emoji, Arabic, Thai, CJK all preserved)
- Author name and Facebook profile URL
- Like / Love / Wow / Haha / Sad / Angry / Care reaction counts (all 7 reactions, separate columns)
- Reply count
- Posted timestamp (UTC)
- Comment ID and parent post ID
- Author profile picture URL
This is everything Facebook's Graph API exposes for a public-page comment, with no rate-limit setup on your end.
The fastest way: ZocialComment (free)
ZocialComment is a browser tool that fetches Facebook comments from any public page post, Reel, or video. The free tier handles 200 comments per export with no signup required — enough for most posts.
Step 1 — Copy the Facebook post URL
Three URL formats are supported:
https://www.facebook.com/{page}/posts/{post_id}(standard page posts)https://www.facebook.com/reel/{id}(Reels)https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v={id}orhttps://fb.watch/{id}(videos)
Easiest way to grab the URL: right-click the timestamp under any comment on the post and pick "Copy link".
Step 2 — Paste into the exporter
Open zocialcomment.com/export/facebook and paste the URL into the form. You can paste up to 50 URLs at once (one per line) — all comments end up in the same export.
Step 3 — Click Export, download the CSV
Click "Export Comments". The tool fetches every comment Facebook exposes publicly (the free tier caps at 200 per post — Starter at $20/mo gives you unlimited up to your credit balance). When the count finishes, you get download buttons for CSV and JSON.
Why not just use the Facebook Graph API?
You can technically pull comments via the Graph API, but in practice it's a lot of work for a one-off export:
- Create a Facebook developer account at developers.facebook.com.
- Create a new app, configure permissions (
pages_read_engagement). - Generate a Page Access Token — requires you to be an admin of the page, which you usually aren't for competitor research.
- Submit the app for review if you want long-lived tokens.
- Write code to handle pagination and rate limits.
For your own pages this is fine. For competitor pages or any page you don't admin, the Graph API is a dead end. You can't request reading rights on someone else's page.
This is the gap browser-based scrapers fill — they read the same public HTML you see when you scroll the post, parse out comments, and hand you a clean CSV.
Common use cases
1. Competitor ad campaign teardowns
Run a brand's Facebook ad through the Facebook Ad Library to find the post URL, then export the comments. You'll see exactly what objections, questions, and praise people have about that competitor's product — invaluable for positioning your own ads.
2. Reaction sentiment analysis
Facebook's seven reaction types (Like, Love, Wow, Haha, Sad, Angry, Care) are a built-in sentiment signal. Pivot the CSV by reaction counts to find which comments triggered emotional responses — great for crisis monitoring or content optimization.
3. Giveaway winner picking
Running a "comment to win" giveaway? Export all comments, filter by your hashtag or @mention requirement, then use Excel's RANDBETWEEN to pick winners fairly. The export includes the comment timestamp so you can also enforce a cutoff time.
4. UGC mining for marketing copy
Comments on top-performing posts are a goldmine for ad copy. Export comments from your three best-performing posts, paste them into a spreadsheet, and look for repeated phrases. The exact wording your customers use is almost always more persuasive than copy you write from scratch.
What about Facebook groups and personal profiles?
Public pages, Reels, and videos work. Private groups and personal-profile posts do not — those are gated by Facebook's privacy rules and no tool can scrape them without your authenticated session, which carries account-ban risk we don't recommend.
If you need group exports for community management, you should be using a tool like Group Collector that requires you to log in with your own account on a group you admin.
How many comments per post?
Free tier: up to 200 per post. Most page posts have fewer than that, so for casual use the free tier is enough.
If you're exporting a viral post with 50,000+ comments, you'll need the Starter plan ($20/month, 20,000 credits) or Pro ($99/month, 150,000 credits). One credit = one comment, regardless of platform.
What if the URL is a short link (fb.watch)?
Paste it directly — the exporter resolves short links automatically. https://fb.watch/abc123 works the same as the full canonical URL.
FAQ
Is it safe? Do I need to log in?
You never log in. The tool reads the same public HTML anyone can see by visiting the post URL. Your Facebook account is never touched.
What's the difference between this and ExportComments?
ExportComments charges per-job ($18 for 3 days of access). ZocialComment has a permanent free tier (3 exports/day, 200 comments each) and monthly subscriptions for bulk work. ExportComments also doesn't include AI sentiment — that's a paid add-on here.
Can I export reactions, not just like counts?
Yes. All seven Facebook reaction types are exposed as separate columns: reactions_like, reactions_love, reactions_wow, reactions_haha, reactions_sad, reactions_angry, reactions_care.
Does it work on Facebook Marketplace listings?
No. Marketplace listings are gated even when "public" and don't expose comment data the same way as page posts. Use the messaging system for buyer questions instead.
Can I get the comments as JSON for a data pipeline?
Yes — every export offers both CSV and JSON download buttons. The JSON preserves nested objects (reaction breakdown, author metadata, attached image URLs) as-is, ideal for downstream NLP or pipeline ingestion.
Try it now
Paste any public Facebook post URL into the Facebook Comment Exporter and have a CSV in under a minute. No signup required for the free tier.