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A Facebook Group is a collection of Facebook users. A Group allows you to share posts/links pictures with those users.

A Facebook Group is a collection of Facebook users. A Group allows you to share posts/links pictures with those users.

A group can be have 1 of 3 designations:

  • Secret: only current members can see or access the group
  • Closed: the group is publicly visible, but only members can access information
  • Open: publicly visible and accessible
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Tag users in Facebook post without using drop down

I manage a large Facebook group and once a year we need to delete a big chunk of users. I have already generated a list of these user names and their Facebook IDs, but now I want to copy-paste these IDs into a Facebook post and have the users be…
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Add/Invite Users to a Facebook group using Facebook Graph API

I've got an iOS app using Corona(ie. in LUA; not ObjectiveC; though I'm not requesting specific Corona help, just how to do this in general) that I want to add or invite users of the app to the Facebook group. I've had success with members of the…
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Cannot post to group using test user in app

Logged in as Test User to post to group in app while in development mode, but failed. According to this bug report https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/374244166706163/ It works only when I'm an admin of both the app and group. To request…
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Get real time updates from Facebook Groups?

Is there a way to get updates in real time to your own server about posts to a Facebook group? I'm trying to build a service that lets users get SMS messages with any messages that were sent to the group. Is this at all possible now? Without…
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Can I use Facebook API to post on groups?

Using Facebook SDK, I'm trying to make an Android app and give it the ability to post in Facebook groups. Is that possible?
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'An unknown error has occurred.' when updating a facebook group's cover_url

How do I successfully update a facebook group's cover_url through the graph api? No matter what I try, I get an error on the 3rd step from below: Create a group by POST /APP-ID/groups DOCUMENTATION:…
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iPhone Connect Facebook. Join a Page/Group Option available?

I am using iPhone Connect to link my application to Facebook. Is there anyway to let user join a Page/Group on Facebook, right from the Application?
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It is possible to create albums in groups using graph API?

I'm writing web app for Facebook. I can successfully create albums for users and pages, and upload images to them. But I still can't create albums in groups. Even in the graph explorer with all permissions ON, on the request POST /[group…
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How to show facebook group wall/posts on the website in a feed

I am new here, I have read through all possible solutions to this and I can't find anything that answers our problem. I am an admin for a facebook group and we want to show the wall posts on a feed for the charities website. We have allowed anyone…
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facebook graph api check if user is a member of a group using PHP

i want to check if a user is a member of a group using facebook graph api... i have this: $group = file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/177129325652421/members?access_token=XXXXXXXX"); $group = json_decode($group); $checkuser =…
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Creating apps for facebook groups possible or not?

I'm a member of a facebook group that has contests with artists on a weekly basis. There are over 5000 members to this group, fortunately not all of them participate because at the end of each week there is a voting for the favorite/best artwork of…
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how can i add a user to a group

Is there a way that I can I have in my web page a button says "join" which will join the user to my group ? I don't mean it to work like the like button, I think more like the friends dialog as shown here. I'm doing it for a site that save the…
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facebook app development shared account

As a web development business we want to create facebook apps for our clients and retain access to them through some for of shared account. Facebook terms clearly state that you can't set up fake accounts. Is there any legal way that you can create…
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I cannot retrieve my groups using Facebook SDK 5.1 using C#

I am using the Facebook SDK and I am trying with C# to get the groups the user is subscribed to. The code is as follows JsonObject Groups = (JsonObject)client.Get("me/groups"); After this code executes I get an empty object. Is it something that I…
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How to scrape a closed facebook group that I have credentials for with facebook_scraper

I'm using facebook_scraper to try to scrape a closed group that I'm a member of. With my credentials logging in, it's working with my private groups that are not searchable, but not with private groups that are searchable (by searchable I mean that…
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