ECA: Post on Facebook page
This module provides an ECA action to automatically publish website content to a Facebook Page. It helps automate sharing content on Facebook, saving time and driving traffic to your site.
This module provides an ECA (Event - Condition - Action) action that allows you to automatically publish website content to a Facebook Page.
For news sites or blogs, a large portion of traffic often comes from social media. Sharing links to your website on Facebook can be essential for reaching a wider audience. This module, combined with ECA, helps automate that publishing on a Facebook page process, saving time, reducing manual effort, and driving more visitors to your site.
Prerequisites
- A Facebook app with the proper permissions to publish posts to a Facebook Page.
- A Facebook user who is an administrator of the Page you want to publish to, with a long-lived access token generated.
- ECA and this module installed on your Drupal site.
Features
Together with the ECA module, it allows you to automatically publish website content to a Facebook page or schedule publications.
Usage example
Simple Workflow with Articles
In this example, we’ll configure a workflow to automatically post new articles to a Facebook Page.
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Install ECA, ECA Content (a submodule of ECA), and this module.
Additionally, install an ECA modeller of your choice. In this example, we’ll use ECA Classic Modeller. - Configure this module by providing your Facebook Page ID and access token.
- Create a new model in ECA with any name you like, and make sure to activate it.
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Add an event:
- Insert content entity (ECA Content), selecting the type Content: Article.
- Save the event.
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Add an action:
- Content: Post Facebook (ECA Autopost Facebook).
- Enter a value in Message to post and/or Attached link. You can use plain text or tokens.
- Save the action.
- (Optional) Add a condition to determine whether or not the article should be posted.
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Edit the event created in step 4 and add a successor.
- This successor should include the Content: Post Facebook action from step 5.
- (Optional) Add a condition here as well.
- Save the event.
- Create a new Article on your site and check whether it was successfully published on your Facebook Page.
Post-Installation
Configure this module by providing your Facebook Page ID and access token from your Facebook APP, and create a workflow that uses the Content: Post Facebook action.