How To Post an RSS Feed on Your Facebook Wall

By Kris Bunda On 06/14/2011 · 13 Comments · In Rants

Update 6/6/2012:

This post has been outdated for some time. Now to automatically post clippings and other stuff from the web to your Facebook wall, try using a Tumblr account. There is a setting in the Tumblr admin which allows you to link to Facebook and Twitter accounts, and have your postings to Tumblr also auto-post to your FB Wall or Twitter feed. This of course means you will have to post the stuff you want to show up on your FB Wall to Tumblr first, but that’s not so bad, is it?

Use Facebook’s “Notes” to Post Blog Updates

There are a lot of “How To Install an RSS Reader on Your Facebook Wall” instructional posts out there, but most have become irrelevant since Facebook redesigned their look and feel in late 2010. This post is relevant as of ~~June~~ Mid-August, 2011.

This tutorial also applies to sending your Feedburner feed, Google Reader Shared Items, or most other RSS & Atom feeds to Facebook’s Wall – not just blog posts. FB will warn you that if you’re sending too much stuff to your Wall, they may have a problem with it, including disabling your account. Don’t ask me what “too much” is, they don’t specify.

There are 2 Ways I’ve Done This: Facebook Notes, and Friend Feed App

For the Friend Feed version, I’ll make a tutorial for it if anyone comments a request for it. For the Facebook Notes version of RSS Wall posting, here’s the tutorial:

1.) Go to your Facebook, click on “Profile”.

Facebook Profile Tab Button - Top Right

2.) Click on “Notes.”

Facebook Notes Button - Left Under Profile Picture

3.) Click on “Write a Note.”

Facebook Write a Note Button - Top Right

4.) Click on “My Notes.”

Facebook My Notes Button - Left Under Profile Picture

5.) Click on “Edit import settings” link.

Facebook Edit import settings Link - Left Under Profile Picture

5. UPDATED) Sometime around mid-August 2011, FB changed their template, so here’s how you find the “Edit import settings” link:

UPDATED STEPS - Write a note if you don't already have any, otherwise click View Full Note

UPDATED STEPS - Write and "Submit" a note if you don't already have any, otherwise click "View Full Note"

UPDATED STEPS - After writing a note or clicking on View Full Note on an existing note, you will see the Edit Import Settings link available

Or, if you already have written notes, and they show up under “My Notes,” then click on “View Full Note” link.

UPDATED STEPS - If you already have notes, click on View Full Note on an of your existing notes, you will see the "Edit Import Settings" link availablNext Page >>>

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http://www.idapostle.com Steve Zelle

Thanks. I had been messing with the RSS apps and none of them worked. This was easy and works perfectly. Thanks for the information.
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  Happy to help. I emailed FB yesterday. The notes feature doesn’t update regularly for me. I have to go into my FB account every few days and “Stop” importing my feed, then re-import it. This gets FB to bring in all the most recent posts, but it’s not automatic.
Jaris24

I don’t have the “Edit Import Settings”, when I look for it its just not there so I can’t click it, what should I do?
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  You’re correct, they must have recently changed this (they do it often enough.) I’m assuming you haven’t written a note yet? Try writing a note, then go to “View full note”, and you should see the “Edit Import Settings” link.
  
  I’ll be updating this post today or tomorrow with new info.
Jaris24

thanks for your help, I’m working on it now, I found “edit import settings” after I wrote a note and then clicked “view full note” , but I have another question, some people say it is better to manually enter your blog posts into your wall on facebook, they say it is better that way and people have more access to it and you get a better response than if you have the feed automatically imported from your blog, I am no expert but this is what I read online, is it better to manually do it than to have it automatically imported or is there no difference? I know importing it would save on time so that’s why I rather do it that way but is manually entering it better as far as the response you get from facebook???
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  I just updated this post with an “UPDATED” #5 step, so hopefully that helps. If it’s wrong, let me know.
  
  If I think I understand you, Maybe you’re saying instead of waiting up to 24 hours for Facebook to “ping” your blog’s rss feed to see if there’s any new content that you’ve written to import, some people say it’s better to manually make FB’s rss service check your blog’s feed at the time you publish new posts?
  
  If I have your premise correct, here’s what I do:
  1.) I go to my “Import notes” page: http://www.facebook.com/editnotes.php?import, and then
  2.) I click the “Stop importing” button, and then
  3.) I re-paste or type my blog’s rss feed’s address (url) in the “Web URL” text field: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KrisBundasSharedItemsInGoogleReader and then
  4.) I click/toggle the little square radio box about “I agree to terms….” and then
  5.) I click the “Start importing” button. This re-pings your feed for FB to see if there’s new content.
  6.) Oh, and then you have to click the “Confirm” button as the last step.
  
  If you meant “Manually Edit” as in copy/paste as a new note in FB, I’m not sure. Either way the notes pop up on your “Wall” so your friends/followers can see them. Maybe if the imported-from-rss-feed notes look like crap (html tags showing, big whitespace, images not where they’re supposed to be) and you can make it look better by copy/pasting, then go for it.
Jaris24

So sorry to keep bothering you but my posts are not importing correctly, first I had a repeat post, meaning that the last post that I made was imported to my notes and into my wall twice, I had 7 posts in my rss feed, but I had 8 posts imported to facebook because the 7th post was imported twice, so I deleted the extra one, but when I deleted it made the original and the duplicate one disappear, so in order to re-import the the post i did what you said and click “stop importing” then re-entered the url and clicked “start importing”, once I did that it re-entered all my posts again and now I have the 7 posts from my rss feed showing correctly in my notes but in the wall there are only 3 posts showing now instead of seven, what do i do?
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  That’s a non stop problem. I always get double posts on my wall, but you don’t have double notes (every post FB imports is going to be a “note”). So you can just click the little ‘x’ on your wall on the last post and delete it.
  
  Also, FB can be kinda selective on how many notes it shows on your wall. When you import 7 or 8 items from an rss feed, it may just decide to show 3 of those on your “Wall,” but if you look in your “notes” they should all 7 or 8 be there. In that case, you can go into those notes that didn’t post to your wall and click on “share” to get it to show up on your Wall and alert your friends better.
  - Jaris24
    
    Thanks so much, i actually figured out how to click share right before I saw your answer lol, but you really helped me out a lot, thanks so much and sorry for all the questions
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      No problem, people help me out on the internet, pay it forward.
Dasleben

I simply want to copy something I’ve written elsewhere and then paste it into a note. This was working fine for me before; then I got off Facebook for a few months, and upon returning, it no longer works. I’ve been trying all day.
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  Worked for me, I just tried it (see attached screenshot). Are you trying to do this on a regular Facebook account (your own personal account), or on a “Facebook Page”, like for a business? Because fb made changes recently to “Pages” and posting rss feeds to the notes on them doesn’t work as of the end of September, 2011, I don’t think. RSS to regular fb accounts’ notes still does, though.
  
  Hope that helps, let me know if it doesn’t. And sometimes fb is very glitchy. Did you try the usual trouble shooting, like closing your browser and reopening, or trying other browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome)? Restarting computer?

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How To Post an RSS Feed on Your Facebook Wall

Update 6/6/2012:

Use Facebook’s “Notes” to Post Blog Updates