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Last updated December 01, 2022 17:22 SectionsBy 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)NoYesWatch a videoConnect your Facebook accountTip: 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:
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 iconTo display a social icon:
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 buttonVersion 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:
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 automaticallyTo 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 FacebookIf 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 pageYou can connect a Facebook Page for your business, brand, or organization to your Squarespace site.
Connect Facebook PixelFacebook 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. TroubleshootingFor 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-inviterfacebook-bulk-group-inviter - Python CLI to import members to Facebook groups via email in bulkgithub.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 = '' 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 taskView 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. 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.
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 Open up your terminal, navigate to the directory where you saved the file and enter # main.pyimport argparse4. 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 CSVCSV 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], Using Python we can easily write some code to parse this file. Let’s create an EmailLoader class. # email_loader.pyimport csv 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()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 argparse5 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: 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. NavigationLet’s add a navigate method to the Browser class. # browser.pyimport osfrom selenium import webdriver 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()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): The method finds each field by an ID lookup and enters the appropriate value passed as a parameter. # main.pyimport argparse0Navigating 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 argparse1Automating 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 argparse2 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 argparse3Wrap-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-inviterfacebook-bulk-group-inviter - Python CLI to import members to Facebook groups via email in bulkgithub.com
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