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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 do I find my Facebook group ID?

My Facebook Group Url is: http://www.facebook.com/groups/284064464943140/ I've read that the group ID is in the Url labelled "id=" or "groupid=" but assume this has changed since there is no such tag in my Url. I would like to use the group id to…
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How do I retrieve photos from a Facebook group using the GraphAPI?

I would like to retrieve photos from a facebook group using the GraphAPI. Based on FB Docs I don't see any connections to photos. I would like to get the photos and the users who uploaded them.
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How do I grant my app permissions on pages or groups I created?

I have an app, and I can write to user's walls with it, having requested the publish_stream permission when they sign in. I've also created a page and a group, and would like my app to be able to write to those. (Specifically, I want my back-end…
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Is it possible to get a facebook feed to a closed group that I belong to but do not own?

I know it's possible to get an rss feed or whatever for wall posts of groups. However, every time I try it with a closed group that I belong to, it doesn't work. Is this possible if you aren't the admin or owner of a group but just a member? Here…
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How to get all content posted by a Facebook Group using Graph API

I am very new to the Graph API and trying to write a simple python script that first identifies all pages that a user has liked and all groups that he/she is a part of. To do this, I used the following: To get the groups he has joined: API:…
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get Facebook Group Id using identifier or url

I would like to get a facebook group id by using a URL or specific identifier. For ex: http://www.facebook.com/groups/chennaifoodies/ should give group id 194462073956868. Is there way to get the group id by using above URL or identifiers like…
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Download all posts for Group I have Admin rights to using Facebook Graph API

We are trying to retrieve ALL the posts, with associated comments and images, made to our group in the last year. I've tried using GraphAPI to do this but pagination means I have to get data, then copy the "next" link, and run again. Unfortunately,…
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posts in group feed have unavailable content

I am an admin of a private group in facebook and I would like to use facebook API to scrap all group posts. I used graph api explorer to generate an access token with read_stream, friends_group and user_groups permissions. When I access the group…
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How to get link to single post on group wall?

How can I get a link to single post on group wall? I've found a link to "normal" post from user wall: http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=USER_ID&id=POST_ID/ but it does not work for group posts. Do you have any idea? EDIT: I've…
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How to get the list of facebook groups using graph api

I want the list of groups in which I'm member. In the Graph Api Explorer I did not find any permission like user_groups. I select all the "User Data Permissions" and "Extended Permissions" but it did not work. In graph api explorer I am using this…
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Facebook API Search - Search for Groups?

I have been testing the Facebook php sdk. I am able to search for pages & places but not groups. According to the documentation, this should return groups... https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=programming&type=group The below code works. If I…
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Group feed lacks polls

I'm fetching a group's feed https://graph.facebook.com/my_group/feed, but it completely ommits polls and links posted in group. Is there a way to get polls along with other posts?
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Is there a way of scraping content from Facebook groups?

I'd like to get the content from a facebook group since there is a lot of valuable information in there. So is there way, hack or function that you could accomplish this with?
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Facebook Graph API - group URL to ID

While some group URLs come in the format of www.facebook.com/groups/%ID%/ other come in the format of www.facebook.com/groups/%SOME_STRING%/. For example http://www.facebook.com/groups/2261122614/ vs.…
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Get pending Facebook group posts via GraphAPI as group admin

I am an admin of a Facebook group. When I checked last time a few months ago, Facebook's GraphAPI would return all posts, incl. those that were still pending approval, when I queried the feed of the group. However, when I checked yesterday, posts…
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