How do I capture posts from a Facebook Group?

PostSnag captures a Facebook Group's posts by capturing the posts of members you view from inside that group, not by pulling the group's main feed directly. Open a member's profile from inside the group, scroll, and click Export To Dashboard: PostSnag captures their posts, tags them to that group, and adds the group to your dashboard automatically.

There's no separate "group mode" to turn on, and no button that captures a whole group's feed in one pass. You capture a group by capturing its members, the same way you'd capture anyone's profile, with one difference: where you open that profile from.

Before you start

• PostSnag is installed and pinned to your toolbar. If it isn't yet, see How do I install PostSnag from the Chrome Web Store?

• You're signed into Facebook in that browser tab, and you can view the group. This works for public groups and for private or closed groups you belong to; PostSnag only reads what your own account can already see.

• You're signed into PostSnag itself, with your email and password or Continue with Google.

• You know which member, or members, you want to capture. You'll open their profile, not the group's own page, to capture anything.

Capture posts from a Group

1. Open the Facebook Group you want to capture from.

2. From inside the group, not from a general search or your own feed, open a member's profile. Click their name or photo on one of their posts in the group, or find them in the group's Members list. This step matters: opening their profile this way, from inside the group, is what tells PostSnag to tag their posts to this group instead of capturing them as a regular, non-group profile.

3. Click the PostSnag toolbar icon, or the floating PostSnag button on the page, to open the panel.

4. Confirm the panel shows Scanning Profile with that member's name underneath it. If it shows a different name, reopen their profile from inside the group again before you start scrolling.

5. Scroll down through their posts at a steady pace. PostSnag captures each post as it loads onto your screen and tags it to the group you opened it from.

6. Watch the Collected count in the panel climb as you scroll.

7. Wait for the status pill to switch from Capturing to Synced before you stop scrolling or compare counts.

8. Click Export To Dashboard. This sends the posts you just captured up to your dashboard and, the first time you do this for a given group, registers the group there automatically using its real name and cover photo from Facebook.

9. Repeat with any other members whose posts you want from the same group. Each one is its own capture pass.

[Screenshot: The PostSnag panel open on a member's profile viewed from inside a Facebook Group, showing Scanning Profile with the member's name and the Export To Dashboard button]

What happens after you export

Exporting opens your PostSnag dashboard in a new tab, already signed in, landing on that member's profile page. Their posts from this session now show up tagged to the group, kept apart from anything captured on their personal profile page. See Why are group posts kept separate from personal posts? for how that split works.

Nothing reaches your dashboard until you click Export To Dashboard. Scrolling and capturing only build the data up locally in your browser, so you can capture at your own pace, close the tab, and come back later. PostSnag recognizes posts it already captured by their permalink, so scrolling back over posts you've already covered, or exporting again in a later session, never creates duplicates. It only adds what's new.

Visiting the group's own page doesn't capture anything

Opening a group's main feed and scrolling it, without opening any member's profile, doesn't capture posts. PostSnag deliberately doesn't capture a whole group feed directly, since a group's feed mixes posts from many members with no reliable way to separate authorship post by post. Visiting a group's own page does let PostSnag read that group's public name and cover photo for later use, which is part of how the group gets registered correctly once you do export, but it isn't a substitute for opening member profiles.

Tips for a clean capture

• Open the member's profile from the group every time, not from search or a link shared elsewhere. That's what tells PostSnag which group to tag the posts to.

• Let the group page finish loading before you click into a member's profile. A page that's still loading can carry over incomplete details.

• Scroll steadily in one direction, rather than jumping around, the same as capturing any profile.

• Check the Scanning Profile name before you scroll. If it doesn't match, go back into the group and open their profile again.

If something looks off

• The member's name or picture looks wrong: this can happen more often right after navigating from a group, since the page may still be settling. See Why does a profile's name or picture look wrong?.

• Nothing gets captured while scrolling: confirm you're signed into Facebook in that tab and that posts are visible on the page before you scroll. See Why is nothing getting captured on a profile?.

• The Collected count looks capped: the Free plan saves the first 30 posts per profile per scan, the same limit that applies outside a group. See Why were only 30 posts saved for a profile? (Free plan).

Common questions

Can PostSnag capture a Group's main feed directly?
No. Open a member's profile from inside the group instead, and PostSnag captures their posts and tags them to that group as you scroll.

Do I need to open every member's profile separately?
Yes. Capture works one profile at a time, whether you're on a group, a Page, or someone's own profile page. Repeat the flow for each member you want.

Will the group show up in my dashboard automatically?
Yes. The first time you click Export To Dashboard from a member's profile opened inside a group, PostSnag adds the group to your dashboard on its own. There's no separate setup step.

Does this work for groups that aren't fully public?
Yes. PostSnag reads whatever you can already see with your own Facebook account and your own session. If you're a member of a private or closed group and can view a person's posts there, PostSnag captures them the same way it captures anywhere else.

Do free-plan limits work differently inside a group?
No. The same 3-scans-a-week and 30-posts-per-profile caps apply whether you're capturing a member from inside a group or capturing someone's own profile page.