How do Facebook Groups work in PostSnag?

PostSnag adds a Facebook Group to your dashboard automatically, the first time you capture inside it and click Export To Dashboard, whether you scrolled the group's own feed or opened one member's profile from inside it. 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: capturing, dashboard tracking, analytics, and export all work now.

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. 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 it either way described in How do I capture posts from a Facebook Group? and export.

Two ways to capture "from inside a group"

• Scrolling the group's own feed captures posts from across every member who posts as you scroll, and tags all of them to the group.

• Opening a member's profile from inside the group captures just that person's posts, tagged to the group the same way.

Either one, followed by Export To Dashboard, is enough to add the group to your dashboard and start building its post and profile counts. See How do I capture posts from a Facebook Group? for the full steps on both.

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, cover, and member count in your dashboard.

Posts are tagged to the group, and kept separate

Every post you capture from inside a group, however you captured it, 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.

The Groups hub: two ways to browse what you've captured

Open Groups in your dashboard sidebar to reach it.

• The Groups tab shows a card for every group you've captured: its cover image, its name, its member count, how long you've been tracking it, how many profiles you've tracked from it, and its captured post count.

• The Profiles by group tab shows the same groups organized differently, listing the tracked members under the group they came from, so you can browse people group by group instead of card by card.

Click into any group's card from either tab to reach its detail page, with Posts, Profiles, and Analytics tabs and its own Download Group Data button. See How do I view and analyze a Group? and How do I export a Facebook Group's posts?.

Where a captured group shows up besides its own page

• Overview, your dashboard's home screen, includes a Biggest groups list ranked by how many profiles you've pulled from each, with a link back to the full Groups page.

• 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.

• Recent scans in the sidebar, alongside any profiles you've recently scanned.

• Bookmarks, if you bookmark a post or a profile from inside the group (there's no whole-group bookmark); find it again from Bookmarks' By group tab, which groups your bookmarked posts by the group they came from.

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

Groups on the Free plan

Capturing a Facebook Group uses its own limit, separate from capturing a profile. On the Free plan you get 3 profile scans and 2 group scans in any rolling 7-day window, and each scan previews the first 30 posts in your dashboard. A group scanned beyond the weekly allowance is saved but locked until you upgrade. Capturing a member from inside a group still counts as a profile scan, not a group scan. Pro and Lifetime remove both caps. See What's included in the Free plan?.

Common questions

How do I create a group in PostSnag?

You don't, directly. A group is added automatically the first time you export from inside it, whether you scrolled its feed or captured one member's profile.

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 anything from it?

No. A group only appears once you've captured and exported something from inside it, either its feed or a member's profile.

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?

Yes, with its own cap. Scrolling a whole group's feed counts toward Free's 2 group scans per rolling 7-day window; capturing a member's profile still counts toward the usual 3 profile scans. Pro and Lifetime remove both caps.

Related articles

• How do I capture posts from a Facebook Group?

• How do I view and analyze a Group?

• Why are group posts kept separate from personal posts?

• How do I export a Facebook Group's posts?

• What's included in the Free plan?

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