What’s the fastest way to pull all the comments off an Instagram or Facebook post for a contest/poll?

I run fan polls and giveaways on Instagram and Facebook, and I need to collect every comment on a post so I can tally votes or pick a winner.

Right now I’m doing it by hand: scrolling the post, clicking “View more comments” and “View replies” over and over until everything’s expanded, then selecting it all and copying it into a doc. On a post with a few hundred comments this takes forever, and it’s easy to miss replies that are still collapsed.

Is there a better way to do this? TYIA

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WhereInTheWorldIsShe•1 day ago•2

I just use a free online giveaway picker like AppSorteos.

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mkgpass•1 day ago•1

For a one-off, use a giveaway picker that signs in through Meta and can export a CSV. Before trusting it, run a small test post where you know the exact number of top-level comments and replies, because some tools count only top-level comments or skip hidden and spam-filtered ones.

For polls, export first, then normalize usernames and decide how you'll handle duplicate votes, edited comments, and replies. For a random giveaway, keep the CSV and a screen recording of the draw so you can explain the result if someone disputes it. I wouldn't keep doing the expand-and-copy method once you're above a few dozen comments; it's too easy to miss nested replies.

Beneficial-Serve-513•about 23 hours ago•1

If the Instagram account is a business or creator account, Meta's Graph API returns every comment and reply on a post, and comment-picker tools usually connect to it, so you skip the "View more replies" clicking. Facebook Page posts work the same way through that API.

I'd still export to a sheet and dedupe by username before tallying, since people comment more than once.

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