Is Facebook Embedded Post only allowed for profiles that allow Public Followers?

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I made a simple application to test the ability to embed posts on external Facebook sites. On it, you paste a URL of any Facebook post, click a button, and the post is inserted into a div.

I separated some links and started the battery of tests. Evidently, I took care to separate only public posts. The big surprise was that much of these links, even though they were public, generated a warning that the content had been removed or flouted privacy laws.

The biggest surprise was when I pasted a link from a post of my own profile and the same message was generated. I searched the profile settings and saw that everything was completely free for all audiences, however, I had not configured the option Who can follow me for All (was Friends). When I changed this setting, the application worked with all my links.

The problem is that this option, by default, is only for friends, which greatly limits the possibilities of embedding posts.

Interestingly, in the documentation of the facebook, the information on which requirements for a post to be incorporated on another page are:

  1. Must be a public post
  2. It must be from someone you’re following
  3. All your friends are automatically followed

Is there any special setting to resolve this issue?

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If your question is a configuration in the code to be put on an external site to force upload content, it does not exist. Otherwise there would be no reason for something that people would always go by default. This type of permission level has to be set on Facebook itself.

What you can do is go in every post and change to public. Something I’m pretty sure you also have is a specific setting that changes which default permission for each new post, and on it you could change to 'public', so you just don’t have to change the default next time.

Note: Profiles of people under 18 automatically do not allow posts defined as public. This other problem can affect some people, so it’s good to know that it exists.

Make suggestion to change the behavior of Facebook

As what you want is different from Facebook’s privacy police, and the current way has no way to be done, recommend feedback on the tool on the appropriate link at https://www.facebook.com/help/127103474099499/. Choose your product and write in detail why it would be better.

  • Emerson, the problem is that it’s not enough just to be public, you have to allow such "not friends" followers. I need to show only the public posts of a group of friends on their own page. It would be quite unproductive to have to ask each of them to allow anonymous followers, agrees?

  • I followed your guidance and sent my suggestions and took the opportunity to read the FAQ on the subject. I found some information that contradicts my experience. I am changing the question to see if anyone else has been through the same problem.

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