How to Connect Facebook Pages to ChatGPT via MCP

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Facebook Pages + ChatGPT

Let your AI run a Facebook Page: read posts, comments and Page and post insights, publish, schedule and edit posts and photo posts, reply to, hide or delete comments, and read and answer Messenger conversations. Everything that publishes or sends asks for your confirmation first.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

FACEBOOK_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN, FACEBOOK_PAGE_ID

Step 1 — Get credentials

1. Create an app at https://developers.facebook.com/apps/creation/ with the use case Manage everything on your Page and add the permissions pages_show_list, pages_read_engagement, pages_read_user_content, pages_manage_posts, pages_manage_engagement and read_insights. For Messenger, also add the use case Engage with customers on Messenger from Meta, which brings pages_manage_metadata and pages_messaging. While you manage the Page yourself and have a role on the app, no App Review is needed.
2. Open the Graph API Explorer at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/, pick the app, click Generate Access Token with those permissions and select your Page when Facebook asks.
3. Paste that user token into the Access Token Debugger at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/accesstoken/ and click Extend Access Token. You get a long-lived user token (about 60 days).
4. Back in the Explorer, with the long-lived token, run GET me/accounts?fields=id,name,access_token. Copy the access_token next to your Page into FACEBOOK_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN (without the word Bearer) and its id into FACEBOOK_PAGE_ID. This Page token has no expiry date: the Debugger shows it as type Page, expires Never.
5. Install the connector and run facebook_pages_get_page to check the setup.

Why a Page token: only a Page access token can act as the Page. A user token cannot post, comment or message as the Page, and a Page token copied straight from the Explorer expires within hours. A Page token stops working when its creator loses their role on the Page, changes their password or removes the app.

Confirm first: publishing, scheduling, editing, commenting, replying and messaging are visible to the public or to a customer at once, so the AI shows you exactly what it will post or send and waits for your yes. facebook_pages_delete_post and facebook_pages_delete_comment are switched off at install; facebook_pages_hide_comment is the gentler option.

Messenger: a Page can only message people who wrote first. Replies are allowed within 24 hours of the person's last message; after that, only a person answering by hand within 7 days, with the Human Agent permission from App Review. Without App Review, messaging only reaches people who have a role on the app; to message customers, request Advanced Access for pages_messaging.

Insights: they need read_insights and at least 100 Page likes, refresh about once a day and cover at most 90 days per request.

Common errors: 190 means the token expired or was revoked, so create a new Page token. 10, 200 or 283 mean a missing permission; code 3 means a user token was pasted instead of the Page token. 1545041 or 10 on a send means the Messenger window is closed. 4, 17, 32, 613, 80001 and 80006 are rate limits: wait a few minutes.

The connector works with one Page and does not cover ads.

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in ChatGPT

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

ChatGPT adds MCP servers as plugins on its Plugins page, on the web and on paid plans. Developer mode is no longer needed. In a Business workspace only admins and owners can add one; in Enterprise and Edu an admin can grant the Create plugins with MCPs permission.

1. Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, click +, then Add custom MCP server.
2. Enter a name, e.g. Name: Facebook Pages.
3. Under Connection, enter the Server URL https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID and keep Authentication on OAuth.
4. Select I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin. When ChatGPT asks, sign in to AnythingMCP and allow access.
5. Install the new plugin from your personal plugins, then type @ in a chat and pick it.

Available tools

Example prompts

• "Summarize how our last 10 posts performed: views, clicks and reactions, and tell me which one did best."
• "Show me the comments on our latest post that have no reply from us yet, and draft answers for me to approve before you post them."
• "Which Messenger conversations got a message from a customer in the last 24 hours? Draft a reply to each and show them to me before sending."
• "Schedule a post for next Monday at 9:00 announcing our new opening hours, and show me the text and time before you schedule it."

FAQ

Does the free ChatGPT plan work with custom MCP servers? OpenAI documents custom MCP servers for paid plans only; the Free plan is not on its list.

Next steps

• Connector landing page
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