Facebook Research

Facebook Research

Use this skill for public Facebook page, group, or post research through the PostPlus hosted public-content collection surface.

Apply shared rulebook and user-guidance rules from postplus-shared.

Before Collection Boundary

Confirm the task can be answered from public Facebook page, group, or post content. If the goal requires follower, following, private audience, login-only, or exhaustive audience data, stop and ask for a different source of truth.

Collection Route

Default public Facebook targets:

• public page/profile URL -> recent public posts,
• public group URL -> recent public posts,
• direct public post URL -> one post,
• broad query -> small discovered public post set, then public content

collection.

Map each public Facebook URL onto the matching released source key, then scrape that source. The --request file is a JSON array of input records (one record per public URL or query).

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postplus research scrape facebook-group-posts --request request.json --output result.json

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Default Workflow

1. Confirm Facebook public source scope. 2. Compile a small page, group, post, or discovery brief. 3. Scrape the matching released source key. postplus research scrape returns either completed public post records or a pending result with runHandle. When pending, resume with postplus research scrape --run-handle <runHandle> --output <result.json> until the result is completed or failed. 4. Normalize or summarize public post facts without treating them as private audience exports.

Output

Return source-grounded summaries, public post metrics when present, stable URLs or ids, and clear notes about what the public collection cannot prove.

Failure Modes

• Stop if the request includes non-Facebook platforms.
• Stop if no Facebook public URL or query can be used.
• Stop on hosted capability, auth, DNS, proxy, network, or malformed-output

hard errors.

• Do not request private user data, login-only surfaces, or hidden audience

exports.

Handoff

Facebook summaries can feed benchmark-to-brief, campaign research, or broader cross-platform synthesis. Publishing belongs in social-media-publisher.

Public Command Boundary

• Choose the smallest matching command or workflow from the user input and run

it directly.

• Readiness diagnostics: postplus doctor --skill facebook-research.
• If an owned CLI or script command fails, report the exact error and stop. Do

not bypass the failure with metadata-only answers, readiness probing, local payload rewrites, fallback providers, or unpublished tools.

• Use postplus research schema --json only when constructing or repairing an unknown request shape.
• Public content scrape: postplus research scrape <sourceKey> --request <input-array.json> --output <result.json> (request = a JSON array of input records).
• Resume a pending public content scrape: postplus research scrape --run-handle <runHandle> --output <result.json>.
• Keep the first pass bounded; expand only after inspecting the first result.
• If the CLI returns a quote-confirmation challenge, run postplus quote confirm --json --challenge-file <challenge.json> and retry with the returned token.