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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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How my App can read the group feed/posts on a group of a test user?

According to the Facebook Groups API, my Facebook App can read the feed of a group only if an admin of that group installs it on the group: By installing your app on a group, a group admin can grant your app access to group content, such as posts,…
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Facebook API: get public info of the group

I am building a simple app with NodeJS and I need to list several Facebook groups and sort them by the number of members. My App does not need any sensitive/personal information, just some public info (group's name, description, members, etc). To…
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Why I can't post to public groups on facebook via graph API? (#200) The user has not authorized

I can't post on my own groups, even I have publish_actions and user_managed_groups permissions. I posted for years now, but suddenly I can't for no reason and no alterations to my code. Since 21 March I receive "(#200) The user has not authorized…
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Request join a group for Facebook Graph API

We developed a system which interacts with Facebook using the Graph API. In this case, I am trying to post a message in a group and I am with the following return: My request in this Graph well: v2.3/402998003100416/feed?message=hello And the…
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Retrieve number of members of a Facebook group on a certain date

Does anyone know if there is a way to retrieve the number of members a FB Group had on a certain date? The usecase is that I want to make a historical graph of member-growth. A hack could be to check when current members joined, but then you'd miss…
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Using Facebook group membership as condition for Facebook login on external site?

I am a hobby web developer running a website for my local concert band. The website has a public part and an internal part. Currently the internal part of the website is protected by a common username/password. In addition to the website, we have a…
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How does Facebook searches for groups?

I want to search Facebook's large collection of groups from the Graph API using the 'q' parameter, but I get the feeling I can only search by the group's name and not by other fields such as the group's 'Description' field or any other…
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Checking if user is a member of a specific facebook group

Do you have an example of how to confirm that the person trying to access the content of your app is a member of a specific facebook group, using php? I've read through the developer docs and all it managed to do was confuse me even more. I've…
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Unable to create groups using test users

I have an app with 4 test users which are all in each others' friend lists. I need to create a group with all of them. I clicked "Create a group" and I am asked for the name of the group and some members. When I type the name of the members, there…
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Facebook API manage_groups permission to create a group

I want to create and manage a group through the Facebook API. There are some older messages here (more than a year old) that say it can't be done -- is that still the case? Has anyone managed to do it?
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facebook group post graph api not allowing me to post

I am trying to post to one of my group but getting below error Graph returned an error: (#200) If posting to a group, requires app being installed in the group, and \ either publish_to_groups permission with user token, or both manage_pages \ and…
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How to create Facebook group using graph API?

I want to create Facebook group using Graph API. Actually what i want to do: I am having a course module, so when admin add a new course i want to create a group in Facebook with course name. Can you please help how to create Facebook group using…
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Facebook graph access closed group feed/posts

I am trying to get a list of posts in a particular group on facebook that is closed, also I am not the admin, just a member in this group. When I am trying to access the group's posts via graph explorer (I checked all the permissions) I am getting…
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Get facebook posts from group from others if I am NOT admin

SO, I belong to some facebook group. I am not admin and I want to get all posts from that group by others, Idea is to filter those and get notification when someone posts something that passes filter. Example, to get notification when post…
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facebook graph api - search group is not working

Earlier i was searching for groups with a particular keyword on facebook using - https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=query&type=group&access_token=abcd.. Since last month it has stopped working. This search now returns always for any keyword an…
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