The Facebook publishing API for developers
Schedule Facebook posts, Reels, and Stories for Pages via API. PostPulse owns the platform access, so you ship on day one — no audit, no token plumbing.
What you'd build and maintain yourself
Every item below is real friction the native Facebook API hands you. PostPulse handles all of them.
Meta App Review
Meta App Review is required before you can publish to pages you do not own
Business verification
The "pages_manage_posts" permission requires a business verification and full app review
Permission revocation risk
Permissions may be revoked during periodic app reviews if compliance issues are found
Graph API version churn
Graph API versions are deprecated on a regular cycle, requiring ongoing migration work
Feed/Reels/Stories split
Separate endpoints and permission sets for Feed, Reels, and Stories publishing
Schedule a Facebook post in two API calls
Import your media, then schedule the post with your Facebook settings. PostPulse does the rest.
# Step 1: Import media from a public URL
curl -X POST https://api.post-pulse.com/v1/media/upload/import \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "url": "https://your-cdn.com/media/video.mp4" }'
# Response: { "path": "uuid/video.mp4" }
# Step 2: Schedule a post using the publications array
curl -X POST https://api.post-pulse.com/v1/posts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"scheduledTime": "2026-06-01T10:00:00Z",
"isDraft": false,
"publications": [
{
"socialMediaAccountId": 123,
"platformSettings": { "type": "FACEBOOK", "publicationType": "FEED" },
"posts": [
{
"content": "Check out our latest content! #developer #api",
"attachmentPaths": ["uuid/video.mp4"]
}
]
}
]
}'What you can build with the Facebook API
Every capability maps to a real field in the API. Click through for the exact request shape.
Publish short-form vertical videos as Reels to Instagram and Facebook with a single API call.
Post ephemeral 24-hour Stories to Instagram and Facebook programmatically.
Schedule video posts to publish at a specific future date and time across multiple platforms.
Post single images or photo collections to social media platforms via REST API.
Publish multi-image carousel posts (up to 10 images) to Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, and Threads.
Schedule any post type — text, image, video, or carousel — to publish at a precise future timestamp.
Trigger immediate publication to social media platforms from your backend or automation workflow.
Upload images and videos via direct binary upload, presigned URL, or remote URL import — then reference the media path in attachmentPaths.
The same Facebook integration, two timelines
Both columns assume you know your stack. Only one has you doing undifferentiated platform plumbing.
- Register a developer app and configure OAuth redirect URLs
- Implement the OAuth flow plus token refresh and rotation
- Build the media-upload and publish flow around Facebook's quirks
- Clear access requirements — review, quota, or partner approval where required
- Build scheduling, retries, and failure alerting yourself
- Keep up with API version changes — forever
- Minute 0 · Sign up free
- Minute 3 · Connect a Facebook account via OAuth
- Minute 6 ·
POST /v1/posts— first post live - Minute 7 · A webhook calls your URL the second it lands
- Day 2+ · Build your product, not platform plumbing
Facebook-specific API settings
Control Facebook publishing options via the platformSettings object in your publication entry.
| Field | Description | Accepted Values |
|---|---|---|
publicationType | Publication format | FEEDREELSSTORY |
Facebook media requirements
PostPulse validates your media before publishing to Facebook to prevent platform rejections.
Image Formats
- JPG
- PNG
Max size: 30 MB
Video Formats
- MP4
- MOV
Max size: 4 GB
Video Duration
15 min (Feed/Story); 90 sec (Reels)
Aspect Ratio
1.91:1 to 4:5 (Feed); 9:16 recommended (Reels/Story)
Max Attachments
20 files per post
Start free. Scale when it makes sense.
The same simple pricing across every platform — no per-network surcharge.
- 10 publications, free
- No credit card required
- Every feature unlocked
- Connect unlimited accounts
- One credit = one published post
- No subscription, no expiry
- All features included
- Top up anytime
- Unlimited publishing per account
- Or $48 / year per account
- Add or remove accounts anytime
- REST API · n8n · Make · MCP
PostPulse vs. the native Facebook API
What PostPulse handles vs. what you'd build yourself.
| Capability | PostPulse | Native Facebook API |
|---|---|---|
| Platform audit / App Review | ✓ Not required | ✗ Required (weeks to months) |
| Auth token management | ✓ Handled by PostPulse | Implement OAuth + token refresh |
| Media upload workflow | ✓ Single endpoint | Multi-step async upload |
| Post scheduling | ✓ Built-in scheduledTime | Build your own cron queue |
| Failure notifications | ✓ 14 webhook events | Poll for status manually |
| Multi-platform publishing | ✓ 9 platforms, same request | Separate API per platform |
| White-label OAuth for your users | ✓ Included | Build your own OAuth bridge |
| AI agent integration (MCP) | ✓ Claude, Cursor | ✗ Not available |
Why teams ship faster with PostPulse for Facebook
Reviewed on Product HuntI use PostPulse with an AI agent via their MCP server. My agent literally posts to social media on its own now. Didn’t expect that to work as smoothly as it did.
$5/month for what would otherwise require a full backend engineer to maintain? Easy yes. The REST API is clean and well-documented too, which is rare.
Tried to get TikTok API access myself. Three weeks, two rejections. Switched to PostPulse and was posting to TikTok the same day. Wish I hadn’t wasted that time.
I’m a Make.com power user and needed to post to 5 platforms from one scenario. The native PostPulse app for Make connected everything in one afternoon. Would’ve taken me weeks to do manually.
I built an n8n automation for a client and needed to add social publishing. The official PostPulse n8n node was literally drag and drop. No headache.
Saved me months of dev work. I was about to start integrating Instagram and TikTok APIs separately — then I found out Meta’s app review alone can take months. PostPulse just handled all of that. Shipped social posting in under a week.
The most flexible pricing model on the market!
I'm building an AI content factory as a side hustle. I'm still in the experimentation phase, so I don't have the budget for expensive tools — but I also needed to get everything up and running quickly, so I integrated with a ready-to-go API instead. PostPulse offers a flexible pay-as-you-go model that let me experiment first without commitment — and now that we have stable traffic, I’ve switched to their $5/month subscription.
Best support on the market — the founder personally emailed me when I hit a client error and walked me through the fix.
We optimized the posting to 20 twitter accounts. It was a problem to manage such a number, but through the platform everything works out perfectly. Very convenient dashboard for tracking errors. Great product.
Facebook API — Frequently Asked Questions
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