# Facebook input for logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facebook-input-for-logstash/23965>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 19, 2015, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facebook-input-for-logstash/23965 "2015-06-19T05:44:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Dan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@Dan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facebook-input-for-logstash/23965/1 "2015-06-19T05:44:36Z")

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Hi All,

Is their any input api available to import facebook data to elastic search??

Please give me step by step procedure to get data from facebook to logstash.

Thanks,  
Dan

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facebook-input-for-logstash/23965/2 "2015-06-25T19:22:47Z")

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I've never heard of such a plugin, but I'm sure you can find something that grabs data from Facebook and dumps to a file, and you can use Logstash to read that file.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facebook-input-for-logstash/23965/3 "2017-07-06T05:36:29Z")

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