Monitoring Facebook Group Posts with n8n After Groups API Deprecation

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Hi,
I’m exploring a commercial automation project that would need to monitor new posts in selected Facebook Groups and trigger an n8n workflow when certain text patterns/criteria are detected.

Since Meta deprecated the Facebook Groups API, is there currently any compliant and reasonably stable way to do this?

I’m not interested in fake accounts, proxy farms or fragile scraping that could stop working overnight. Ideally I’m looking for an official API, webhook, approved third-party service or another reliable architecture that can integrate with n8n.

Has anyone implemented something similar recently?

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@Compa_AI I’m afraid not, there’s no stable way anymore, You can still do pages, but not groups. for groups, everything that works is the risky TOS stuff you’d rather avoid.

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Hey @Compa_AI

Agreed with achamms post, no API route left for groups. One compliant workaround though, join with your real account, turn on email notifications for new posts, and point a Gmail or IMAP trigger at that mailbox. Meta is the one sending the mail so nothing breaks TOS. Bodies come through truncated and Meta keeps trimming these notifications, so test one group for a week before you price the job.

If the clients own the groups, move submissions to an n8n Form or a Page instead and automate against something with a real API.