here, for example, there are images in the post: https://www.facebook.com/BradFreeneyMusic/posts/pfbid0316NvZ4LvtybXmHWh76QtdfoQvFJRFsDxLbUsAg64wKAgXUpmdTCQz9us2MJz98pkl

but we just get this JSON result, where media_url is an empty list.

{ "facebook_id": "100083461547983", "video_thumbnail": "", "page_id": "100083461547983", "post_url": "https://www.facebook.com/BradFreeneyMusic/posts/pfbid0316NvZ4LvtybXmHWh76QtdfoQvFJRFsDxLbUsAg64wKAgXUpmdTCQz9us2MJz98pkl", "post_id": "666066676185378", "caption": "Playing out this week 🎸", "page_name": "Brad Freeney - Musician", "media_url": [], "thumbnail": null, "link": "", "video_url": null, "video_view_count": null, "post_date": "Tue May 13 2025 at 13:20", "playable_duration_in_ms": "", "user": "", "timestamp": 1747142440, "page_ad_library": { "is_business_page_active": false, "id": "102256075888382" }, "total_reactions": {}, "top_level_url": "https://www.facebook.com/100083461547983/posts/666066676185378" },

I've been experimenting a little with this and I find that when I specify a specific post url, rather than ONLY the profile url, when it processes the profile URL it is much more thorough. it's a bit of a circular situation since I don't know the post urls to provide until getting them, so I would have to have a prior run in order to zero in on any specific post url. then the output also shows the original output (with some media_url lists empty) and the more thorough breakout of the specific post.

Here is an example.

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I'm trying to figure out how to attach the most recent run, but i cant. in any case, thanks. it tried it just and its the same. many media_url elements that are in the posts don't get returned from the actor.

in the dataset I supplied there are 6 posts returned:

• https://www.facebook.com/BradFreeneyMusic/posts/pfbid037S7NDCX8hLJEHStTYRQZDDiWLjUWEdT6pyMdGpJptnmTBNWzTiVXezCzxCZpvX65l
• https://www.facebook.com/BradFreeneyMusic/posts/pfbid0bC64TNd1aw5JX948FVjuNPCWNnWsWR53rFBLQLso7BWZcN2GVEsguCgkaifeQ9del
• https://www.facebook.com/BradFreeneyMusic/posts/pfbid022o8MGV9VPuS5TzuhLsUY2juDrKQZG6yQTtRn3y6FJvPHZg2gQVVmBnFqD3L1MKTfl
• https://www.facebook.com/BradFreeneyMusic/posts/pfbid0nEVjDpPRYT9LeoLPNXMqWANpCE9kcuv9EQoyUcTZNdVNiZoZitTB43Apb16ntffGl
• https://www.facebook.com/BradFreeneyMusic/posts/pfbid03198WstCL5zHTmCkJwgAnQ4AAuFrmdhWncojuh2VoGwt7uLTzJZE9ZwKmyC42bLyel
• https://www.facebook.com/BradFreeneyMusic/posts/pfbid02T1ndTxueF88Va2x6iWHPLGG6axi5iXTyqWJHS1xeQWy6xvb8y8cWXdLAKt256D7fl

it correctly got the single media_url for the first one. it failed to get the single media_url for the second one. it failed to get the media_url for the third one it got the single media_url for the forth one there should be two media urls for the fifth one. it didn't get either there should be two media urs for the sixth one, it didn't get either.

I'm disappointed honestly. this means I can trust that the actor is returning all the data from a post, so I'll never know if it is working well or not.

i didn't try doing separate runs for each post, which previously caused the missing media_url to be returned, but that method was quite bad because it basically meant completely repeating the same run for every post returned, so a run with 6 posts would cost at least 6 times more to be certain that all the data was returned. I went out of my way to provide code demonstrating that for you in my original post.

I just tried with apify facebook posts scraper and it gets everything in one shot. I won't be able to continue renting your actor.