{"id":824,"date":"2025-03-24T14:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/how-to-setup-social-importer-to-work-with-facebook\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:24:07","slug":"how-to-setup-social-importer-to-work-with-facebook","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/social-importer\/how-to-setup-social-importer-to-work-with-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Setup Social Importer to Work with Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t In order to use Social Importer with Facebook, you need to create a Facebook app and integrate the same with Social Importer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Creating a Facebook App<\/h2>\n<section class=\"alert alert-warning\">\n\t Before proceeding, you need to go through the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/apps\/\">Facebook documentation<\/a> and create an app accordingly. Integration with Social Importer or any such tool is only possible by means of a Facebook app.<\/section>\n<p>\n\t Once you have created the app, you need to copy its <strong>App ID<\/strong> and <strong>App Secret Key.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Setting up Social Importer<\/h2>\n<p>\n\t <img width=\"875\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/file-qJkvfisHg1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/file-qJkvfisHg1.png 875w, https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/file-qJkvfisHg1-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/file-qJkvfisHg1-768x463.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>\n\t1\n\t<\/dt>\n<dd>\n\tHead on to <strong>GD &gt; Settings &gt; Social Importer &gt; Facebook. <br \/>\n\t <\/strong> <\/dd>\n<dt>\n\t2\n\t<\/dt>\n<dd>\n\tUnder <strong>Facebook App Details, <\/strong>locate the fields <strong>Facebook App ID <\/strong>and <strong>Facebook App Secret. <\/strong>Enter the information that you copied from the Facebook app earlier.&nbsp;\n\t<\/dd>\n<dt>\n\t3\n\t<\/dt>\n<dd>\n\tSave your settings. Optionally, you may choose to disable auto-posting to Facebook.&nbsp;\n\t<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<section class=\"alert alert-danger\"> <strong>IMPORTANT:<\/strong> Direct Parsing is the only viable option for importing from Facebook. Facebook have now locked down their API and require a review process to use. As of now, it is almost impossible to get approval.<\/section>\n<p>\n\t That&#8217;s all! You have successfully integrated Facebook with Social Importer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to use Social Importer with Facebook, you need to create a Facebook app and integrate the same with Social Importer.&nbsp; Creating a Facebook App Before proceeding, you need to go through the Facebook documentation and create an app accordingly. Integration with Social Importer or any such tool is only possible by means of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[506,615,657],"article\/categories":[213,408],"class_list":["post-824","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_place_tags-geodirectory-settings","gd_place_tags-social-importer","gd_place_tags-facebook-integration","gd_placecategory-extensions-features","gd_placecategory-social-importer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}