How to connect Facebook Groups

Facebook Groups

Facebook Groups offer brands a valuable platform to engage directly with their audience, just like what we're doing with our support group. Following a similar approach with Facebook Profiles, Meta has recently removed public API access for Facebook Groups. We now only have access to the Pages API.

Just like with Facebook Profiles, posting in Groups now requires the use of reminders. You will first have to connect your Group to Publer, and after that, you will need to download the Publer Mobile app so you can share your posts to your Group via push-notifications. Learn more about this on our article here.

Publer won't be able to gather insights, or sync posts, given that we won't have access to the official API any longer. However, you will always be able to find all the posts you share to your Facebook Groups under the Posts > Posted tab.

To to add Facebook Groups to Publer:

Go to Publer.
Navigate to the Social Accounts tab, from the navigation bar in the left.
Under Facebook, click + Connect.


Select Group.


You can add the Group Link of your Facebook Group manually.
Go to the Group on Facebook and copy the URL at the top of the screen.


Go back to Publer and paste the Link of the Facebook group.


After clicking on Add you should be able to see a success message and the page will be updated accordingly.

Now that you have connected your Facebook Group to Publer, you can freely schedule your posts via push-notifications. For that, you will need to have downloaded the mobile app of Publer. Learn more about this on our article here

Analytics & Daily Post Limits

Insights won't be available for Groups or Profiles, only Pages.
Our daily post limits also apply. You can view them here.

Keep in mind:

Since Meta discontinued API for Facebook Groups, we have found a workaround that allows you to share posts via push-notifications/reminders.
Publer won't be able to gather insights, or sync posts, given that we won't have access to the official API any longer. However, you will always be able to find all the posts you share to your Facebook Groups under the Posts > Posted tab.
You can't use other post options, such as Auto-Delete or Auto-Share.


Written by: Brikena Cani

Updated on: 22/12/2024