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Connecting Facebook to Squarespace

Last updated December 01, 2022 17:22

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By connecting your Facebook account to your Squarespace site, you can display social icons and share content from Squarespace to Facebook. This guide explores different ways you can use Facebook with Squarespace.

Here's what you can do with this integration:

Social iconShare buttonPush contentPull contentOtherYesYes (version 7.0 only)Yes (pages only)NoYes

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Connect your Facebook account

Tip: If you're setting this up for someone else or have multiple Facebook accounts, log out of Facebook to ensure you connect the right account. If you're already logged in, that account will connect by default.

To authorize your account:

  1. Open the Connected Accounts panel.
  2. Click Connect Account.
  3. Select Facebook from the Social Accounts menu.
  4. Log in using your Facebook username and password.
  5. Click Okay to authorize Squarespace to post to your Facebook Pages, if applicable. We'll never post anything to Facebook without your permission—this authorization adds an option to create a new post when you publish new content.
  6. If you want to push content to Facebook automatically, ensure Show Push Option is checked, and choose a Facebook Page from the drop-down menu.
  7. Click Save.

If you want to push content to multiple Facebook Pages, you'll need to separate each page under a different Facebook account, and connect each account to your site. To connect multiple Facebook accounts, log out of Facebook, then return to the Social Accounts menu and repeat Steps 5 and 6.

Add a social icon

To display a social icon:

  1. Open the Social links panel.
  2. Add your Facebook profile or page link.
  3. Check Show Social Icon.
  4. Click Save.

For more detailed steps, visit Adding social links.

After adding your Facebook link, the social icon will automatically display in most templates, but not all of them. You can also add social icons using the social links block.

Add a Share button

Version 7.1 doesn't support built-in share buttons.

To help visitors share your content on Facebook, you can add a Facebook Share button to the following content:

  • Album pages
  • Events pages
  • Gallery pages
  • Layout pages (Flatiron template only)
  • Blog post
  • Product items

In some templates, the Facebook Share button displays as a Like icon, and doesn't post content directly to visitors' Facebook Timelines. Learn more in Adding Share buttons.

Push content to Facebook automatically

To learn how to push content to Facebook and customize your posts, visit Sharing content on social media.

To troubleshoot the content that appears in your posts, visit How content displays in social posts.

Selling and advertising products on Facebook

If you have an online store, you can sync your products with Facebook to sell and advertise directly from your profile or page.

To learn more, visit Selling products on Facebook and Instagram.

Connect a Facebook business or brand page

You can connect a Facebook Page for your business, brand, or organization to your Squarespace site. 

  • To add a social icon linking to your brand's Facebook Page, follow the steps above to add a social icon.
  • To push content to your brand's Facebook Page, visit Sharing content on social media to change your push target.
  • To make your Facebook posts look like they came from your Facebook Page, rather than your Squarespace site, follow the steps in Sharing content on social media to impersonate your Facebook Page.

Connect Facebook Pixel

Facebook Pixel is an analytics tool for advertising. It tracks visitor actions on your site and uses that data to inform future ad campaigns. To learn more, visit Using Facebook Pixel with Squarespace. 

Troubleshooting

For help with troubleshooting common issues with Facebook, visit Troubleshooting Facebook sharing issues.

At the start of the academic year whilst working with a student society at university I ran into a problem — how do you invite people to a Facebook group in bulk? It turns out that with a little bit of Python it’s easy. For the source code see the Github repository, keep reading for a walkthrough.

danielireson/facebook-bulk-group-inviter

facebook-bulk-group-inviter - Python CLI to import members to Facebook groups via email in bulk

github.com

Why Python?

Python is a great choice of language for this kind of task because it’s lightweight and easy to write. I personally love how well it reads. Consider the following piece of code where you can understand the logic even if you don’t know Python syntax. It reads like English.

secret = ''
while secret != 'medium':
secret = input('What's the secret?')
if secret == 'medium':
print('Correct')
else:
print('Incorrect')

But Python is really just one suitable option — the script could quite have easily have been written in many other languages. Selenium (which we will use to automate the browser) also has client APIs available for C#, Java, JavaScript and Ruby. There’s other non-Selenium solutions that could have been used as well.

The task

View a Facebook group that you’re a member of and look on the right hand-side, you’ll see an add members section. Here you can enter an email address and it will invite the person to join the group.

Manchester Startups Facebook group

It does this whether the user has a Facebook account or not. Try inviting yourself to the group and see what happens. You should shortly receive an email in your inbox.

Broken down the process involves five steps.

  1. Log in to Facebook.
  2. Navigate to the Facebook group page.
  3. Enter the email address of a user to invite.
  4. Submit the input.
  5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for a list of email addresses.
Create the CLI

The script has to be able to login as a user who has access to the Facebook group, it therefore needs access to personal login details. For this reason it’s a good idea to design it as a CLI. One of the benefits of Python is its huge standard library. There’s a module called argparse that we can use to parse CLI arguments and one called getpass which can be used to prompt the user for a password. Create a new file main.py with the following code (and install Python beforehand if you don’t already have it installed).

# main.pyimport argparse
import getpass
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='This tool lets you invite people in bulk to your Facebook group')
parser.add_argument('-e','--email', help='Your personal Facebook account email', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-g','--group', help='The Facebook group name', required=True)
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
args['password'] = getpass.getpass()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

Open up your terminal, navigate to the directory where you saved the file and enter

# main.pyimport argparse
import getpass
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='This tool lets you invite people in bulk to your Facebook group')
parser.add_argument('-e','--email', help='Your personal Facebook account email', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-g','--group', help='The Facebook group name', required=True)
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
args['password'] = getpass.getpass()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
4. You should receive an error asking you to pass the two required arguments — email and group name. These are passed via flags. You should then be prompted to enter a password.

python main.py -e [email protected] -g groupname
Load emails from a CSV

CSV is a widely supported file format that stores a list of comma separated values. I had my email addresses stored in a CSV in the following structure.

[email protected],
[email protected]

Using Python we can easily write some code to parse this file. Let’s create an EmailLoader class.

# email_loader.pyimport csv
import os
import sys
class EmailLoader:
filename = 'emails.csv'
emails = []
def __init__(self):
dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
file_path = dir_path + '/' + self.filename
if not os.path.isfile(file_path):
sys.exit('File does not exist: ' + self.filename)
with open(file_path, 'rb') as file:
csv_reader = csv.reader(file)
for email in csv_reader:
self.emails.append(email[0])
if len(self.emails) < 1:
sys.exit('There are no emails in your supplied file')
else:
print('Loaded ' + str(len(self.emails)))

It presumes the CSV has a filename of emails.csv and is located in the same directory. It loads email addresses into the emails array property.

from email_loader import EmailLoaderemail_loader = EmailLoader()
print(email_loader.emails)
Setup Selenium

To control the web browser we’re going to use Selenium, a powerful open-source browser automation tool primarily used for testing. You can install it using Python’s package manager pip by entering

# main.pyimport argparse
import getpass
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='This tool lets you invite people in bulk to your Facebook group')
parser.add_argument('-e','--email', help='Your personal Facebook account email', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-g','--group', help='The Facebook group name', required=True)
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
args['password'] = getpass.getpass()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
5 in the terminal. Selenium requires a vendor driver to work. We’ll be using the PhantomJS driver which allows us to control a PhantomJS headless browser. A headless browser is a browser without a visible user interface. Download the correct PhantomJS driver for your operating system from their download page and copy it your working directory (you will need to extract the driver from the bin folder of the zip download). Continuing with an object-oriented pattern, let’s create a Browser class to encapsulate working with Selenium.

# browser.pyimport osfrom selenium import webdriverclass Browser:
def __init__(self):
dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
driver_path = dir_path + '/phantomjs-driver'
self.browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path=driver_path)

This class sets up Selenium using the PhantomJS driver on its instantiation. It assumes the driver is in the working directory with a filename of phantomjs-driver.

Navigation

Let’s add a navigate method to the Browser class.

# browser.pyimport osfrom selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
class Browser:
def __init__(self):
dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
driver_path = dir_path + '/phantomjs-driver'
self.browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path=driver_path)
def navigate(self, url, wait_for, error):
try:
print('Navigating to: ' + url)
self.browser.get(url)
element_present = expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, wait_for))
WebDriverWait(self.browser, self.delay).until(element_present)
except TimeoutException:
sys.exit(error)

The page to navigate to should be supplied as the first parameter. The second parameter is a div ID that can be found on the navigating page, this is used to ensure it has successfully loaded. The last parameter is an error message that is shown if the navigation is unsuccessful. This will only be shown if the try/catch block fails, in which case it will exit the CLI and print the error message. Using this method it becomes simple to navigate to the Facebook homepage.

from browser import Browserbrowser = Browser()
browser.navigate(
url='https://www.facebook.com',
wait_for='facebook',
error='Unable to load the Facebook website'
)
Logging in to Facebook

Our script needs to be able to automate the login. This is done on the Facebook homepage by input fields in the top right hand corner of the page. Simply enough, the email field has an ID of email and the password field has an ID of pass. We can use these IDs to lookup the inputs. Let’s create a method on our Browser class to automate the login.

def enter_login_details(self, email, password):
try:
print('Entering login details')
email_field = self.browser.find_element_by_id('email')
pass_field = self.browser.find_element_by_id('pass')
email_field.send_keys(email)
pass_field.send_keys(password)
pass_field.submit()
element_present = expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'userNavigationLabel'))
WebDriverWait(self.browser, self.delay).until(element_present)
except TimeoutException:
sys.exit('Login with your credentials unsuccessful')

The method finds each field by an ID lookup and enters the appropriate value passed as a parameter.

# main.pyimport argparse
import getpass
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='This tool lets you invite people in bulk to your Facebook group')
parser.add_argument('-e','--email', help='Your personal Facebook account email', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-g','--group', help='The Facebook group name', required=True)
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
args['password'] = getpass.getpass()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
0Navigating to the group page

After logging in we need to navigate to the Facebook group page. This can be done using our navigate method from earlier.

# main.pyimport argparse
import getpass
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='This tool lets you invite people in bulk to your Facebook group')
parser.add_argument('-e','--email', help='Your personal Facebook account email', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-g','--group', help='The Facebook group name', required=True)
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
args['password'] = getpass.getpass()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
1Automating the imports

Now on the group page we need to loop through the imported email addresses and enter them one at a time into the add members input box in the sidebar. To do this we’ll add a new import_members method on Browser.

# main.pyimport argparse
import getpass
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='This tool lets you invite people in bulk to your Facebook group')
parser.add_argument('-e','--email', help='Your personal Facebook account email', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-g','--group', help='The Facebook group name', required=True)
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
args['password'] = getpass.getpass()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
2

This uses XPath which is a query language for working with HTML documents. We search for the add members input by looking up the placeholder. We then loop through the array of email addresses to invite, entering each email address character by character. This prevents the browser from locking up on the input. After each email address submission the script waits for at least one second before continuing. Add usage of import_members() to main.py and our automation script is complete.

# main.pyimport argparse
import getpass
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='This tool lets you invite people in bulk to your Facebook group')
parser.add_argument('-e','--email', help='Your personal Facebook account email', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-g','--group', help='The Facebook group name', required=True)
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
args['password'] = getpass.getpass()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
3Wrap-up

Python and Selenium make it painless to automate simple web tasks. Today we’ve been through just one use case but the possibilities are almost endless. Happy automating! For the source code check out the repository on Github.

danielireson/facebook-bulk-group-inviter

facebook-bulk-group-inviter - Python CLI to import members to Facebook groups via email in bulk

github.com

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