> **For coding agents and LLMs:** This is one Social Fetch marketing page (markdown export). For API orientation start with [`/llms.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.txt); for auth and crawl rules use [`/agents.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/agents.txt); for every operation use [`/llms-endpoints.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-endpoints.txt).

## This page

- **On-site (HTML):** [https://www.socialfetch.dev/answers/facebook-graph-api-vs-social-fetch-whats-the-difference](https://www.socialfetch.dev/answers/facebook-graph-api-vs-social-fetch-whats-the-difference)
- **Markdown (.mdx) URL:** [https://www.socialfetch.dev/answers/facebook-graph-api-vs-social-fetch-whats-the-difference.mdx](https://www.socialfetch.dev/answers/facebook-graph-api-vs-social-fetch-whats-the-difference.mdx)

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# Facebook Graph API vs Social Fetch — what's the difference?

Graph API and Marketing API manage Pages and ad accounts you control — posting, Insights, campaign reporting — and require app review plus access tokens. Social Fetch is public-data enrichment: URL or search query in, structured JSON out, one Social Fetch API key.

Source: [Facebook data API](https://www.socialfetch.dev/platforms/facebook)

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