Facebook posts, especially on big brand Pages and in busy groups, can gather hundreds or thousands of comments, and that is where the real audience reaction sits. It is honest, unfiltered and public, and it is almost impossible to work with by scrolling and clicking "view more" until your thumb gives out.
Exporting the comments as data solves that. You give the tool a post, and every comment comes back as a row with the text, the commenter and the likes. Then you can rank it, read the sentiment fast, and pull out the people and themes that matter. Here is how.
What you can pull
- Every comment on a Facebook post
- The name of each commenter
- Like counts per comment
- Replies within threads
- A link back to the post
Why export Facebook comments
A post's comments are candid market research nobody had to pay for. Pull them into a table and the top-liked comments rise to the surface, the recurring questions and complaints become obvious, and the exact words your market uses are there to reuse in your own copy. On a competitor's post, the comments often read like a list of everything their customers wish were different, which is useful ammunition when you are the alternative.
How to export comments with Tooltap
The Facebook Comments Scraper needs the post.
- Paste the post URLs, one or more, one per line.
- Set how many comments you want per post, a sample or the full thread.
- Run it. Comments come back as a table with the text, the commenter and the likes.
- Sort or scan. Order by likes to find what landed, or read for questions and objections.
- Export. Send it to CSV, or feed the text to an AI tool to summarise the sentiment.
What people use this for
- Audience research. See how people really react to a topic, brand or campaign, at scale.
- Sentiment analysis. Run the comments through AI for a fast read on the overall mood.
- Content and copy. Harvest the questions and phrases your audience uses in their own words.
- Lead spotting. Find people showing buying intent in the comments of relevant posts.
Doing this properly
The tool reads the public comments on a Facebook post, the same ones any visitor can see, and returns them as data on your instruction. It works on public posts. You are charged only for the comments that come back, and if you act on what you find, especially contacting people, that is your responsibility under Facebook's terms and the privacy rules that apply to you.
Facebook Comments Scraper
Pull comments from any Facebook post, with the commenter and likes.