
Update: Meta discontinued third-party app access to Facebook Groups on April 22, 2024. This affected every automation and scheduling tool on the market — not just PostRSS — and there is currently no way for any third-party service to publish to a Facebook Group on your behalf. This page previously explained how to add the PostRSS app to a Group; those steps no longer work, because the underlying Meta feature they depended on was removed.
Below is what actually changed, why it happened, and — more usefully — what still works today if Facebook automation is part of your content strategy.
Meta's Graph API previously included a set of Groups endpoints that let approved third-party apps read a group's feed and, with the right permissions, publish posts to it on a member's behalf. That capability powered every "auto-post to Facebook Group" tool that existed, including PostRSS's own Groups integration. As of April 2024, Meta removed those permissions entirely as part of a broader platform change. The API itself still exists in a limited form, but the publishing permission third-party apps relied on is gone.
This wasn't a PostRSS-specific limitation or a deliberate product decision — it was a platform-wide policy change from Meta, driven by privacy and platform-safety considerations around group content specifically.
The good news is that Facebook Pages were entirely unaffected by this change. If Group posting was part of your strategy, the most direct path forward is shifting that same automated distribution to a Facebook Page:
If your community engagement genuinely lives in a Facebook Group rather than a Page, that space is still valuable — it just can't be automated anymore. A few practical options:
Your next published post will sync to your Facebook Page automatically, with no further manual steps required.
Is there any way to automate Group posting again? Not through PostRSS or any comparable tool via the official API. The only alternatives that exist (browser-session tools acting as your own logged-in account) work differently, aren't officially supported by Meta, and carry their own risks — PostRSS does not offer this workaround.
Will Meta bring the Groups API back? There's no indication of that. Meta's direction with Groups permissions has consistently been to restrict third-party access further over time, not expand it.
Does this affect Facebook Pages too? No — Page posting is a completely separate part of Facebook's API and continues to work exactly as before.