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Facebook Search Videos

Search Facebook's native public video results without signing in, including videos and Reels. This is not Google or general text/photo-post search.

CostAt least 10 credits / call
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POST · https://api.nexscope.ai/social/facebook/search/videosMCP · social_facebook_search_videos

What this API does

Search Facebook's native public video results without signing in, including videos and Reels. This is not Google or general text/photo-post search. The request accepts query, cursor. Its documented result includes platform, resourceStatus.

Facebook Search Videos API use cases

Plan a Facebook Search Videos request

A researcher checks the published operation description and supplies query, cursor for Facebook Search Videos. The request stays within the supported parameters rather than assuming other platform capabilities.

Inspect Facebook Search Videos results

An analyst reviews platform, resourceStatus from Facebook Search Videos for the requested subject. Missing values remain explicit, and the response does not establish complete platform coverage.

Document Facebook Search Videos observations

A researcher records the inputs and available results from Facebook Search Videos alongside its published description. The record supports a scoped review without inferring unsupported actions, refresh intervals or broader conclusions.

Facebook Search Videos API FAQ

What does the Facebook Search Videos API return?

Search Facebook's native public video results without signing in, including videos and Reels. This is not Google or general text/photo-post search. The documented output includes platform, resourceStatus. It corresponds to the supplied query, cursor. Optional fields can be absent; a missing value should not be interpreted as a measured zero. Example values illustrate the response shape, rather than live account results.

How many credits does the Facebook Search Videos API cost?

The current documented cost is At least 10 credits / call. This is the same cost shown at the top of this page. If a range or estimate is displayed, the final charge depends on the request. Review your available credits and the pricing page before calling the API, and check API usage records for the actual charge.

How do I call the Facebook Search Videos API from my app or an MCP client?

Send a POST request to https://api.nexscope.ai/social/facebook/search/videos with your API key as a Bearer token and the JSON inputs shown in API integration. In a compatible MCP client such as Claude or Cursor, connect Nexscope and call social_facebook_search_videos. Use the MCP arguments shown in the MCP guide, or switch Online test to MCP to review its request before adding it to your app.

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Endpoint
https://api.nexscope.ai/social/facebook/search/videos
MCP method
social_facebook_search_videos

Step 1 of 3 · Authenticate

Authentication

All run endpoints require a user API key. Send it as a bearer token in the Authorization header.

Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Missing or invalid API keys return an authentication error. Manage keys from .

Step 2 of 3 · Send a request

POSThttps://api.nexscope.ai/social/facebook/search/videos

Run an API

Send a JSON request body using the parameters described below.

Example request

Replace YOUR_API_KEY, then run this command in your terminal.

curl -X POST 'https://api.nexscope.ai/social/facebook/search/videos' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "query": "ai agents"
}'

Code example

{
  "query": "ai agents"
}

Step 3 of 3 · Inspect the result

Check the response

Read code for the request status and data for the result. Open the parameter and response reference for the full field definitions.

HTTP status codes

CodeDescription
200Default HTTP response for both success and many business errors. Only outer JSON code 0 indicates success or asynchronous acceptance; inspect data for the result.
429Execution admission rate limit; honor Retry-After when present.
503Execution admission is temporarily unavailable; honor Retry-After when present.
Opt-inX-Nexscope-Http-Status: semantic maps controller-handled business errors to HTTP status on run and task routes. Pre-authentication failures, such as a missing API key (code 11209), may still return HTTP 200 before this mapping. Always check the outer JSON code; malformed requests and infrastructure failures may also return non-200 HTTP responses.
All categories/ Social Data
POSThttps://api.nexscope.ai/social/facebook/search/videos

Run this API

Send a JSON request to execute this API and receive the documented response payload.

Endpoint

MethodPOST
Pathhttps://api.nexscope.ai/social/facebook/search/videos
AuthBearer API key
Content-Typeapplication/json

Request parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
querystringrequired
The keyword or phrase to search for
Example: ai agents
cursorstringoptional
The opaque cursor returned by the previous response. Keep the query unchanged when paginating. Stop when cursor is null or has_more is false.

Social data contract

Use your Nexscope API key. No supplier credentials are required. Requests reject unknown fields, including pageSize. URLs require HTTPS and an exact supported platform host and resource path. Documented YouTube video URLs may use youtu.be; other short links are unsupported. Check the request schema for supported fields and defaults.

Each request fetches one page. Continue manually with the returned nextCursor, or nextPage for Instagram Reels (pages 1–11). Cursors are opaque, unchanged strings up to 65536 UTF-8 bytes. No automatic pagination, retry, media download or transcription is performed. Repeated requests may purchase data again.

Resource status is independent of HTTP and billing: AVAILABLE, PARTIAL, PRIVATE, RESTRICTED, NOT_FOUND, NO_TRANSCRIPT or UNKNOWN can accompany code 0. Unknown values remain null; arrays remain empty arrays. fetchedAt is the response observation time; sourceFetchedAt is null without source evidence.

usage.billingStatus is NOT_CHARGED, SETTLED or UNKNOWN; chargedCredits is null when unconfirmed. Unknown charges never mean free. Completed lookups have a minimum charge of 10 credits, including cached, no-caption and unavailable-resource results; check API usage records for the actual charge. Parameter errors and unpublished APIs use the standard error envelope; upstream failures use code 13007, rate limits 429 and timeouts 408. Always check code and msg.

Response example

Platform response envelope. code 0 indicates success or acceptance; data contains the business result.

{
  "code": 0,
  "cost": "-1",
  "data": {
    "data": {
      "cursor": "eyJ...",
      "has_more": true,
      "query": "dogs",
      "success": true,
      "videos": [
        {
          "author": {
            "id": "100071029295578",
            "name": "Jozo Dogs",
            "url": "https://www.facebook.com/jozodogs"
          },
          "creation_time": null,
          "description": "You shouldn't underestimate the strength of your large dogs 🦍#dog #bigdog #dogs #jozodogs #pet",
          "duration_ms": null,
          "duration_text": "0:17",
          "id": "1972139093484105",
          "is_paid_partnership": null,
          "publish_time": null,
          "relative_time_text": "Sep 5 · 89K views",
          "thumbnail_url": "https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/797452339_4437994959794452_2679783842489764932_n.jpg?stp=c0.83.206.115a_dst-jpg_p206x206_tt6&_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=e3495b&_nc_ohc=xtv7jwiwuNQQ7kNvwEbj3vl&_nc_oc=AdoHeYyJmQ9f55LFZDTEnu_GlPQudlYYT5BGRCkZQvvXVaxUz4VgCyShthnifB9vaMs&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&_nc_gid=r5QqvHq8oDddJgzN0OeHGw&_nc_ss=79180&oh=00_AQPGWtsD2mkz5PUZN7u9xH2PnLYfdYpmq2TeyIpwXdC3tA&oe=6AC8E5A4",
          "title": "Extremely strong dogs 🦍",
          "url": "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1972139093484105/"
        }
      ]
    },
    "platform": "facebook",
    "resourceStatus": "AVAILABLE",
    "usage": {
      "billingStatus": "UNKNOWN"
    }
  },
  "msg": null,
  "time": "2026-01-01 00:00:00",
  "traceId": null,
  "ts": "0"
}

Response fields

NameTypeRequiredDescription
codeintegerrequired
0 means accepted or successful; nonzero is a platform error.
coststringrequired
Elapsed milliseconds, never credits; -1 outside web requests.
dataanyrequired
Data value used by this API operation.
msgstring | nullrequired
Msg value used by this API operation.
timestringrequired
Server local time: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.
traceIdstring | nullrequired
Trace id value used by this API operation.
tsstringrequired
Epoch milliseconds.

Any of option 1 — requires platform, resourceStatus, data, usage

NameTypeRequiredDescription
dataobjectrequired
Data value used by this API operation.
data.dataobjectrequired
Data value used by this API operation.
data.platformstringrequired
Platform value used by this API operation.
data.resourceStatusstringrequired
Resource status value used by this API operation.
data.usageobjectrequired
Usage value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

NameTypeRequiredDescription
datanullrequired
Data value used by this API operation.

Responses

CodeDescription
200Default HTTP response for both success and many business errors. Only outer JSON code 0 indicates success or asynchronous acceptance; inspect data for the result.
429Execution admission rate limit; honor Retry-After when present.
503Execution admission is temporarily unavailable; honor Retry-After when present.
Opt-inX-Nexscope-Http-Status: semantic maps controller-handled business errors to HTTP status on run and task routes. Pre-authentication failures, such as a missing API key (code 11209), may still return HTTP 200 before this mapping. Always check the outer JSON code; malformed requests and infrastructure failures may also return non-200 HTTP responses.

Data source, freshness, and limitations

Source, freshness, coverage, rate limits, and estimation notes are not specified in this API definition unless they appear in the request or response field documentation above. Do not assume official marketplace data or real-time freshness when it is not explicitly documented.

Step 1 of 2 · Connect your MCP client

MCP

V2 recommended

Connect remote agents through the standard MCP 2025-11-25 Streamable HTTP endpoint. Use OAuth 2.1 Authorization Code with PKCE, or an API key for compatibility.

POST https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-11-25
Content-Type: application/json
Authentication

OAuth clients request the mcp:tools scope. The endpoint's 401 response advertises protected-resource metadata for authorization discovery.

Step 2 of 2 · Call the tool

Call a tool

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "tool-call-1",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "social_facebook_search_videos",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "ai agents"
    }
  }
}

Legacy MCP v1

Existing API-key clients can continue using the compatibility endpoint. New integrations should use MCP v2.

GET / POST /mcp/legacy

What can you do with this API?

Data explained and practical use cases

AI Guide

Question

What data can Facebook Search Videos provide, and how might I use it?

AI answer

Searches Facebook's native public video search without a logged-in account and returns matching videos and Reels. This is not Google-indexed discovery or general Facebook text/photo-post search. Results follow Facebook's ranking and public availability, so coverage and ordering are not exhaustive or guaranteed. Requests can take several seconds; use a client timeout of at least 30 seconds. Temporary Facebook restrictions or upstream timeouts can return an uncharged error. Pass the returned

Data categoryDocumented fieldsHow to use them
Requestquery, cursorProvide the required identifiers, filters, or paging inputs listed in the API document.
Responsedata.data, data.platform, data.resourceStatusInspect returned values and source references; availability depends on the request and upstream source.
  • Review Facebook Search Videos.
    • Prompt example: “Retrieve Facebook Search Videos for [search phrase]. Summarize only the information actually returned and preserve source links when available. Report private, restricted, missing or partial results explicitly; missing values are not zero.”
  • Collect a Bounded Set of Results.
    • Prompt example: “Retrieve Facebook Search Videos for [search phrase] across at most two pages within my approved credit budget. Use only the continuation information actually returned, with the same query and filters. Stop at the documented page limit, an absent continuation, an end indicator or a repeated page. Keep source references and report that the collection is bounded, not exhaustive.”
  • Create a Brief From Returned Text.
    • Prompt example: “Retrieve Facebook Search Videos for [search phrase] and prepare a brief about [my research question] using only text present in the response. Cite the corresponding source links when returned, distinguish quotations from interpretation, and report insufficient text. Do not claim to have read linked pages or infer private information.”

These are suggested workflows, not completed lookups. Report missing, restricted, or partial data explicitly; verify the live response before making a decision.

Online test

Execute the current API with your API key and JSON payload. Online tests use this site's configured API environment; the Endpoint and copyable examples use the public integration address.

One request fetches one page. Copy nextCursor into cursor, or nextPage into page (1–11 for Reels), then run manually. Repeated requests may purchase data again. Completed lookups have a minimum charge of 10 credits, including cached, no-caption, private, restricted and not-found results. Resource status and actual billing status are independent; null credits are unknown, never free. Check usage.billingStatus, usage.chargedCredits and API usage records for the actual charge.

Try it

Send a real request with the same contract shown in the reference.

Endpoint
/social/facebook/search/videos
MCP method
social_facebook_search_videos
cURL
curl -X POST \
  https://api.nexscope.ai/social/facebook/search/videos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nk-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "query": "ai agents" }'
Request estimate: Estimating…Usage based. The final charge depends on actual usage. Estimating does not run the API or charge credits.API usage records
Response
No response yet. Run the request to see the response here.

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