How to Setup Facebook Trigger & FB App for Lead Forms?

[MortgageRockstar]

I am trying to set-up the configuration for the Facebook trigger to execute whenever a FB lead ad is filled out, but there is no step-by-step guide so I’m trying to piece things together from posts in the community. I also reviewed Facebook’s Webhooks for Leads info.

I have created a FB app, generated the Access Token and App Secret using these instructions and created Facebook Graph API (App) credentials in n8n with them. I also created a Facebook Trigger node in n8n with Page as the Object and Leadgen as the field and added the Webhook product to my FB app, but that is where I am stuck.

I assume I should be selecting Page for the FB Webhook product, but what do I enter for the Callback URL and Verify Token?

Also is there additional set-up that needs to be done on the FB side after this? Do additional fields need to be added to the Facebook trigger or options enabled?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.

[MutedJam]

Hey @MortgageRockstar, welcome to the community! When using a trigger node in n8n you wouldn’t usually need to configure your webhooks manually.

If you want (or need) to manually set up a webhook in a 3rd-party system like Facebook, you’d need to use the generic Webhook node in n8n.

Not sure if it’s the same principle, but @chandan988 was setting up a Facebook webhook earlier, perhaps you’ll find this approach helpful:

Callback url with token

So from reading Getting Started - Webhooks (facebook.com) it looks like there are two different types of requests. Anytime you configure the Webhooks product in your App Dashboard, we’ll send a GET request to your endpoint URL. Verification requests include the following query string parameters, appended to the end of your endpoint URL. When you configure your Webhooks product, you will subscribe to specific fields on an object type (e.g., the photos field on the user object). Whenever there’…

[John_Parker]

Did you ever get this figured out? I’ve spent a good part of the day trying to figure out how to get the leads from FB…

Thanks

[MortgageRockstar]

@John_Parker Yes, but I found it pretty technical and a chore to set-up since I’m an amateur programmer. I primarily followed Facebook documentation although a couple of n8n posts helped somewhat.

I wish I could help further, but it would take a considerable amount of time to type everything out and, to be honest, I don’t recall all I did to get it working.

Good luck!