Facebook Events search API

Q: Which errors can it return?

invalid_params (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.

Q: How do I get more than one page?

Send the same request with cursor set to the cursor you received, until has_more is false . Each page costs its own price. See pagination .

Q: Is there an SDK call for it?

The preview Python client has client.facebook.events_search(...) and the TypeScript client client.facebook.eventsSearch() . Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. The packages are not published yet; plain HTTP works today in any language.

Events matching a name or description, as facebook.com/events/search shows them to a logged-out visitor (about 7 on the first page).

GETapi.socialscrape.io/v1/facebook/events/search

Cost: 1 credit
Cached repeats: 0 creditssend max_age_days, results kept 30 days
Failed requests: 0 credits
Status: Betashape may still gain fields

There is no logged-out place filter: location is searched as words after the query.

You send query.

Request

Send your key in the x-api-key header.

curl

curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/facebook/events/search" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode 'query=jazz jam'

Python

import os
import requests

params = {
    "query": "jazz jam",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/facebook/events/search",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
    timeout=60,
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

TypeScript

const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/facebook/events/search");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
  query: "jazz jam",
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}

n8n

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape Facebook Events search",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/facebook/events/search",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "query",
              "value": "jazz jam"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "x-api-key",
              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	yes	Search terms. Also accepted as `keyword`, `q`.
`location`	string		City or area to search around ("Austin, TX").
`cursor`	string		Opaque cursor from the previous page; pass it back unchanged. Also accepted as `continuationToken`, `continuation_token`, `next_max_id`, `max_id`, `max_cursor`, `min_time`, `after`, `page_token`, `pageToken`, `paginationToken`, `next_page_id`, `page`.

Every request also accepts trim, raw and max_age_days.

Response

Sample from a recorded response, shortened. Values are public data, not yours.

Status 200Sample

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_8add0412826d1eb6ef2d024d",
  "data": {
    "object": "list",
    "items": [
      {
        "object": "event",
        "platform": "facebook",
        "id": "28848663088088051",
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/events/28848663088088051/",
        "title": "Sunday Jazz Jam",
        "description": null,
        "starts_at": "2026-10-25T20:00:00Z",
        "ends_at": null,
        "place": {
          "name": "114 S Broadway, South Amboy, NJ",
          "address": null,
          "city": null,
          "region": null,
          "country": null,
          "latitude": null,
          "longitude": null
        },
        "is_online": false,
        "host": null,
        "going_count": 1,
        "interested_count": 4,
        "cover_url": "https://scontent-sea5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.99422-6/861479592_1420981459660647_4106507575597665627_n.png?stp=c0.167.1206.804a_dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1206x804&ctp=...",
        "extra": {
          "day_time_sentence": "Sun, 1 Nov at 16:00 EST",
          "event_kind": "PUBLIC_TYPE",
          "is_happening_now": true,
          "is_past": false,
          "place_id": "1749917266701109",
          "social_context": "4 interested · 1 going"
        }
      },
      {
        "object": "event",
        "platform": "facebook",
        "id": "1737414620694897",
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/events/1737414620694897/",
        "title": "The Brooklyn jazz jam session on Thursdays at Marian's, 8:30-11:30pm",
        "description": null,
        "starts_at": "2026-10-30T00:30:00Z",
        "ends_at": null,
        "place": {
          "name": "Bedstuy Brooklyn NYC",
          "address": null,
          "city": null,
          "region": null,
          "country": null,
          "latitude": null,
          "longitude": null
        },
        "is_online": false,
        "host": null,
        "going_count": 1,
        "interested_count": 1,
        "cover_url": "https://scontent-sea5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/861750764_1576602187603331_6423329380935671992_n.jpg?stp=c0.197.1522.1015a_dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1522x1015&ct...",
        "extra": {
          "day_time_sentence": "Happening now",
          "event_kind": "PUBLIC_TYPE",
          "is_happening_now": true,
          "is_past": false,
          "place_id": "260649337355557",
          "social_context": "1 interested · 1 going"
        }
      }
    ],
    "cursor": "eyJrIjoiZXZzZWFyY2giLCJxIjoiamF6eiBqYW0iLCJhZnRlciI6IntcInBhZ2VfbnVtYmVyXCI6MCxcImZsb3dfY3Vyc29yc19zZXJpYWxpemVkXCI6e1wiU0VBUkNIX0NPTlRST0xTX0lOVEVSQ0VQVFwiO...",
    "has_more": true,
    "parent": null
  },
  "cursor": "eyJrIjoiZXZzZWFyY2giLCJxIjoiamF6eiBqYW0iLCJhZnRlciI6IntcInBhZ2VfbnVtYmVyXCI6MCxcImZsb3dfY3Vyc29yc19zZXJpYWxpemVkXCI6e1wiU0VBUkNIX0NPTlRST0xTX0lOVEVSQ0VQVFwiO...",
  "has_more": true
}

Fields

A page of results. Each entry in items is a Event. cursor and has_more page through the rest.

A field the platform does not give is null, never made up. Extra platform details are in extra.

Field	Type	Always
`object`	`"event"`
`platform`	Platform	yes
`id`	string	yes
`url`	string or null
`title`	string or null
`description`	string or null
`starts_at`	string (ISO 8601 date-time) or null
`ends_at`	string (ISO 8601 date-time) or null
`place`	Place or null
`is_online`	boolean or null
`host`	Author or null
`going_count`	integer or null
`interested_count`	integer or null
`cover_url`	string or null

Show the other 1 fields

Field	Type	Always	Notes
`extra`	object or null

Full field list in the reference for this endpoint and the data models. Errors are listed under Errors.

Questions

Which errors can it return?

invalid_params (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.

How do I get more than one page?

Send the same request with cursor set to the cursor you received, until has_more is false. Each page costs its own price. See pagination.

Is there an SDK call for it?

The preview Python client has client.facebook.events_search(...) and the TypeScript client client.facebook.eventsSearch(). Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. The packages are not published yet; plain HTTP works today in any language.

Can an AI agent call it?

Yes. The MCP server reaches every built endpoint, with the same prices.

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