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Facebook api retrieve posts from a buy and sell group

I have looked all over the internet and have not found an answer.

I admin a buy and sell group on facebook and am querying the group/feed through the facebook graph api. If I post in the group as a ‘discussion’ post it shows up in the query results, but anything I post as a ‘buy/sell’ post does not come through in the query results. Is there anything in the graph API for querying buy/sell posts in a group?

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    I have same problem now. Before query with field ‘feed’ gave me all type of post from group, but now only discussion appear in response. Did you use ‘posts’ field?

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    This is still a problem as of April 2020. Posts to a group which have a sale_post_id in the query string on their detail page come back from the /feed endpoint without any content, only an id and an updated_time parameter.

    No documentation referencing Sales Posts appears to exist in the Group Feed graph API documentation.

    As far as I can tell, there is no present solution for programmatic access to these post types.

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    It looks like you need to include the field "attachments" to get the item for sale. In the following example, 6161166157241517_6161180003906799 is a post to a group containing a item for sale, "Gears".

    I’m not sure how long the link will be valid for, but here’s the UI link to that post: https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/1114583039178806/?ref=share_attachment

    Making a GET request to this endpoint: https://graph.facebook.com/6161166157241517_6161180003906799?fields=child_attachments,attachments,status_type,type

    Yields this response JSON (note that child_attachments and status_type are not included in the output)

    {
  "attachments": {
    "data": [
      {
        "description": "$500",
        "media": {
          "image": {
            "height": 541,
            "src": "https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/325734407_702872891457106_7651211745488246974_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s720x720&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5bac3a&_nc_ohc=jYk_Nog1WEkAX_b9Q4z&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&edm=ADqbNqUEAAAA&oh=00_AfD3HFpQ-qLlq8Ru5FYAgn7L21aPnAe6NpvXdLd5rRIO0Q&oe=63C82336",
            "width": 720
          }
        },
        "subattachments": {
          "data": [
            {
              "media": {
                "image": {
                  "height": 541,
                  "src": "https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/325734407_702872891457106_7651211745488246974_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s720x720&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5bac3a&_nc_ohc=jYk_Nog1WEkAX_b9Q4z&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&edm=ADqbNqUEAAAA&oh=00_AfD3HFpQ-qLlq8Ru5FYAgn7L21aPnAe6NpvXdLd5rRIO0Q&oe=63C82336",
                  "width": 720
                }
              },
              "target": {
                "id": "153887997464544",
                "url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=153887997464544&set=gm.6161180003906799&type=3"
              },
              "type": "photo",
              "url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=153887997464544&set=gm.6161180003906799&type=3"
            }
          ]
        },
        "target": {
          "id": "1114583039178806",
          "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/6161166157241517/permalink/6161180003906799/?sale_post_id=6161180003906799"
        },
        "title": "Gears",
        "type": "native_templates",
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/6161166157241517/permalink/6161180003906799/?sale_post_id=6161180003906799"
      }
    ]
  },
  "type": "status",
  "id": "6161166157241517_6161180003906799"
}
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