Apify exports Facebook comments. Adlicio reads the ad accounts' minds.
Apify's Facebook comment scraper actors export the comments under public posts, billed per result. Adlicio captures the comment section through your own browser and ranks it into the objections and questions your ads need to answer.
The Apify Facebook comment scrapers are cloud actors that take public post URLs and return comments as JSON or CSV. They run on Apify's infrastructure against a platform that heavily restricts automated access, so they target public pages and posts.
If you archive comment data across many public pages and want raw rows for your own tooling, a managed actor fits, run by someone comfortable with configuration and output parsing.
Apify for Facebook vs. Adlicio
Apify for Facebook
Adlicio
Core job
Export a public post's comments as JSON/CSV
Turn ad comment sections into ranked angles
Setup
Apify account, actor config, public post URLs
One click on the post from the extension
Where it runs
Apify's cloud, public-page access only
Your own browser session
Output
Raw comment rows
Objections, questions, and buyer language, ranked
Analysis
None built in
Built in, plus ChatGPT & Claude integration
Best for
Archiving public-page comment data
Media buyers mining competitors' ad comments
Core job
Apify for Facebook: Export a public post's comments as JSON/CSV
Adlicio: Turn ad comment sections into ranked angles
Setup
Apify for Facebook: Apify account, actor config, public post URLs
Adlicio: One click on the post from the extension
Where it runs
Apify for Facebook: Apify's cloud, public-page access only
Adlicio: Your own browser session
Output
Apify for Facebook: Raw comment rows
Adlicio: Objections, questions, and buyer language, ranked
Analysis
Apify for Facebook: None built in
Adlicio: Built in, plus ChatGPT & Claude integration
Best for
Apify for Facebook: Archiving public-page comment data
Adlicio: Media buyers mining competitors' ad comments
When Apify for Facebook is not the right tool for the job
The comments under a competitor's Facebook ads are a running log of everything their creative provokes: doubts, comparisons, shipping complaints, and the questions the ad left open. That's a media buyer's brief, sitting in public.
Adlicio collects those comments in your browser and ranks them, so you walk away with the objection list and the phrasing to answer it, not a JSON file to process. For ad research specifically, that's the whole job.
So far Adlicio has read 10,443,865+ comments and reviews across 9+ public sources for 10,000+ marketers.
“Compared to other tools, the price is incredibly low for the quality it delivers. Exceptional value for money. Highly recommended!”
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Apify for Facebook alternative FAQ
Can either tool scrape private groups?
No. Apify actors work on public pages and posts, and Adlicio reads public content your own browser renders. Private-group scraping isn't something either should be used for.
How do I find the competitor posts worth scraping?
Start from the Facebook Ad Library: find a competitor's long-running ads, open the ad's post, and scrape its comments. Long-running usually means profitable, which makes those comments the highest-signal input.
Does Adlicio work on my own page's ads too?
Yes, and it's a fast way to mine your own comment sections for objections your funnel isn't answering.
What does Adlicio cost compared to per-result billing?
Plans are flat and built around research output, so a heavy comment-mining week doesn't turn into a surprise per-row bill.