How do Facebook Groups work in PostSnag?

PostSnag adds a Facebook Group to your dashboard automatically, the first time you click Export To Dashboard while viewing a member's profile opened from inside that group. There's no manual setup step, no form to fill in, and no button for adding a group by name or URL.

Facebook Groups is a live, fully working part of PostSnag today: capturing, dashboard tracking, analytics, and export all work now, not as a future release.

There's no manual "create a group" step

You won't find a "create group" button anywhere in PostSnag, in the extension or the dashboard. That's deliberate: a group only appears in your dashboard once you've actually captured something from inside it, so your Groups list always matches real activity instead of becoming a wishlist of groups you meant to track but never opened.

To add a group, capture at least one member's profile from inside it and export. See How do I capture posts from a Facebook Group? for the exact steps.

What counts as "capturing from inside a group"

Two things happen differently depending on where you are inside a Facebook Group:

• Opening the group's own feed and scrolling it captures nothing. A group's main feed mixes posts from many members with no reliable way to attribute each post while you're on that page, so PostSnag skips capturing it directly.

• Opening a member's profile from inside the group captures that member's posts as usual, and tags every post you capture in that session to the group. This is the only path that adds posts, or the group itself, to your dashboard.

Visiting the group's own feed page isn't wasted, though. It's how PostSnag gets a first read on the group's name and cover photo, which it uses once you do export from inside it.

What PostSnag reads for a group

When a group is added, or refreshed on a later export, PostSnag reads that group's public name and cover image directly from its own Facebook page: first from your own signed-in view of the group, and from a public preview version of the page if your signed-in view doesn't return a cover image. Nothing about a group's membership list, posts, or settings is read beyond what's needed to show its name and cover in your dashboard.

Posts are tagged to the group, and kept separate

Every post you capture from inside a group carries that group's tag with it. Your dashboard uses this tag to keep a person's group activity apart from their personal profile posts, so capturing someone inside a group and capturing their own profile page produce two separate pools of posts for that person. See Why are group posts kept separate from personal posts? for how this plays out across your dashboard.

Where Groups shows up once you've captured one

A captured group appears in a few places, not just its own page:

• The Groups page in your dashboard sidebar, with tabs for Groups and Profiles by group. See How do I view and analyze a Group in my dashboard?

• The Analytics page, in a dedicated Groups section, once you've captured at least one group post; it lists your groups by members, tracked profiles, posts, and reactions.

• The Profiles page, where any profile you've tracked from a group shows a group chip on its card, and the search box there matches group names too.

• A group chip and the Sources filter on that person's own profile detail page, letting you view their personal posts, their group posts, or both together.

[Screenshot: The Groups page in the dashboard showing a group card with its cover photo, member count, and tracked profile count]

Groups on the Free plan

Tracking a Facebook Group doesn't use a different limit from tracking any other profile. The same Free-plan caps apply: 3 profile scans a week, and the first 30 posts saved per profile on a given scan, whether that profile is someone's own page or a member captured from inside a group. Pro and Lifetime describe this as unlimited profile and Facebook Group tracking, meaning both caps are removed, rather than Groups needing a separate plan to use at all.

Common questions

How do I create a group in PostSnag?
You don't, directly. A group is added automatically the first time you export a captured profile from inside that group.

Does PostSnag support Facebook Groups?
Yes. Groups is a live feature: capturing, dashboard tracking, analytics, and export all work today.

Can a group appear in my dashboard before I've captured anyone from it?
No. A group only appears once you've captured and exported at least one member's profile from inside it.

Where does the group's name and photo come from?
PostSnag reads them directly from the group's own Facebook page, the same name and cover photo you'd see visiting the group yourself.

Is Facebook Groups tracking limited on the Free plan?
Not separately. The normal Free-plan limits, 3 scans a week and 30 posts per profile per scan, apply to a member captured inside a group the same way they apply anywhere else.

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