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Expanded Facebook Posting Capabilities

Feature Request

Requesting support for the following capabilities in the Facebook posting API:

  1. Location Tagging
    • Ability to attach a location to a post
    • Enables geo-based discoverability and aligns with Facebook’s recommended best practices

  2. Feeling/Activity Tagging
    • Ability to add feelings or activities to posts
    • Improves post visibility and metadata richness

  3. Facebook Group Posting
    • Ability to publish posts directly to Facebook Groups where the user has permission
    • Extends use cases for communities, brands, and engagement-focused pages

These features are not currently available in the API but are essential for maximizing content reach, discoverability, and alignment with Facebook’s own platform guidelines.

Posted by Stas Sorokin ·
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  • Miquel Palet López

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    Aug 26

    Splitting these three, because they are not the same kind of blocker. Facebook Groups publishing is permanently gone: Meta removed the Groups API endpoints and the publish_to_groups permission from all API versions on 22 April 2024, so no scheduling tool can publish into a Group any more, and that will not come back unless Meta ships a new Groups publishing API.

    Location tagging and feeling/activity tagging are different: both still exist on the Page /feed publishing API (place for a location, og_action_type_id and og_object_id for feelings and activities), so those are work on our side rather than a platform wall, and we are leaving this open for them. The catch on location is discovery, not publishing: place takes the Page ID of a place, and searching places at scale needs Meta's Page Public Content Access feature, which is an App Review we have not gone through (we verified this on 2026-06-15 when we looked at the same question for Instagram).

    The nearest thing available today is geoRestriction on platformSpecificData, which limits which countries can see a Page post. That is visibility control, not a location tag, so it does not give you the restaurant's suburb showing on the post.

  • charliestag

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    Aug 8

    Location posting on Instagram and Facebook is needed. I manage accounts for restaurants and not being able to tag their location or street or suburb is not ideal.