Importing events from a facebook page that I don't own

[Colm]

Hi

Is it possible to import events from facebook pages that I don’t own into my events calendar.

I want to import events from a range of sporting clubs in one region.

Thanks

[Brian]

Hi,

Thanks for using our plugins. I can help out here.

With the Facebook Importer you can automatically import with any public page that does not have restrictions.

The restrictions we usually see are age related for bars or alcohol related pages. We are unable to import from those pages.

For events made by profiles or groups you can manually import those by id.

We also have out New User Primer to explain how everything works in more detail:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/new-user-primer-facebook-events/

Let me know if you have any follow up questions.

Thanks

[Colm]

Hi Brain,

We are not able to get the Facebook tab on the Events settings in our page. Please find the attached screenshot for your referral.

Please let us know the how to get it solved.

Regards

[Brian]

Hi,

Facebook is under the Import Tab now.

Please check out the guide here:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/importing-events-from-facebook/

And for entire setup of the plugin please review the New User Primer:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/new-user-primer-facebook-events/

Let me know how that works out.

[Colm]

Thanks for your help

The meetup importer allows me to automatically categorise events from a certain group.

Can this be done with the facebook importer?

[Brian]

Hi,

We do not have a feature to categorize events.

If you think that is something you would like as a feature I encourage you to visit our User Voice Page and either upvote an existing request or make a new request there.

http://tribe.uservoice.com/

Right now the only thing you can do is add a default category using a snippet like this:

/**
* The Events Calendar Facebook Events - Add Category to Imported Events
* change Facebook Event to the name of the event category
* @Version 4.0
*/
add_action( 'tribe_events_facebook_event_created', 'tribe_fb_add_category' );
function tribe_fb_add_category( $event_id ) {
​
wp_set_object_terms( $event_id, 'Facebook Event', 'tribe_events_cat', false );
​
}

Change Facebook Event with the name of the category you would like to use.

Cheers

[Support Droid]

This topic has not been active for quite some time and will now be closed.

If you still need assistance please simply open a new topic (linking to this one if necessary)
and one of the team will be only too happy to help.

[Author]

Posts