How to post on Instagram Personal Profile and Facebook Profile using RecurPost?

Instagram and Facebook have updated their privacy policies due to which it is not possible for third-party apps, including social media schedulers, to post on personal profiles directly. However, using RecurPost, you can create one-off posts and schedule them. We will help you post them via push notifications. Let’s see the steps.

To begin, please first log in to your RecurPost account. In case you haven’t made an account yet, click here to sign up.

Additionally, make sure you are logged in to your Instagram and Facebook accounts on both your desktop browser and mobile app.

Once you are logged in, follow the steps below to create posts using RecurPost.

Step 1: Connect your Instagram Personal profile and Facebook profile

On your Calendar page, you can find all the social media platforms that you have linked to RecurPost on the left side.

To add a new account, please go to ‘Social profiles‘ page and click on ‘+ Add social profiles‘ button, then you’ll see the below screen.

In order to add Facebook groups, Facebook Profiles, or Instagram Personal Profiles, you would have to enable the toggle button beside ‘Show accounts that support posting only via push notifications‘ option as shown above.

Select the ‘+ Personal’ option beside ‘+ Business’ option which is below the Instagram logo to add an Instagram Personal Profile.

You may be asked to log in to your Instagram account if you are not already logged in through your browser. Don’t worry, RecurPost never sees or stores your account password.

After you enter the credentials, RecurPost will ask you to give certain permissions. Note that these permissions are necessary for scheduling and posting on your accounts from RecurPost. If you refuse to give our app permissions, you will not be able to post from RecurPost as a result. 

Click on ‘Allow’ and you’ll be redirected back to RecurPost. You will see that your Instagram Personal profile is now added to the list of social accounts on the left under the ‘Social profiles’ section.

The RecurPost app is available for download on both ‘Google Play Store‘ and ‘Apple App Store‘. After downloading the app, you need to log into your RecurPost account using the mobile app and make sure to allow the notifications setting (if asked) when you enter the RecurPost mobile app for the first time.

In case, you deny the notification permission then you can simply go to the ‘Settings‘ on your phone and turn it on under the RecurPost app.

When you have turned the notifications on, click on ‘I’VE ENABLED PUSH NOTIFICATION‘ button then you’ll see the following message:

You can also add your social accounts from the RecurPost mobile app. To connect Instagram Personal profile using the mobile app, click on the ‘Add Social Accounts’ in the dashboard at the bottom. Next, select Instagram from the list of the social accounts that are displayed on your screen and enable the ‘Show accounts that support posting only via push notifications‘ toggle button for the ‘Add Personal Profile’ selection to appear on the screen.

Clicking on the ‘Add Personal Profile’ would take you to the permission page on the browser if you are already logged in to your Instagram account in your browser. If not, then it would first navigate to the Instagram login page before displaying the permission page.

The Instagram Personal profile will be added to the list of social accounts in the dashboard of the RecurPost app once you give the app the necessary permission.

Repeat the same process for connecting your Facebook profile. Now let’s see the process of creating posts in detail.

Step 2: Create a One-off Post

You can create either Recurring Post or One-off Post. Let’s create a one-off post here to understand the process of posting via push notification on Facebook and Instagram personal profiles.

First, log-in into your RecurPost account from your computer browser and click on the ‘Share a Post’ in the dashboard. This is where you will be creating your ‘one-off post’.

From there, you shall be able to add all the relevant details of the post including the message i.e. description/caption, URL to websites, images, video and hashtags a post. Select the check marks beside the Facebook and Instagram personal profiles on the left.

Now, in case you also want to add this post to your library as well for later use or editing, you can do so by ticking the ‘Make this a recurring post instead’ box. This means that your one-off post will also be saved to your selected libraries which you can later edit as per your preference.

Once you’re done with that, it’s now time to schedule your post. You can do so by ticking the ‘Schedule for later’ button and selecting your preferred date and time of posting shown below:

Click on the ‘SCHEDULE’ button after entering all the details. If you haven’t set up a schedule and want to share your post instantly, uncheck the ‘Schedule for later’ button and click on ‘POST NOW’.

Now, in the case of Instagram:

You will get a push notification on your mobile immediately. (On the selected time in case of a scheduled post) Tap on it and all your added data will be copied into your phone’s memory. Next, select where you wish to share the post – Feed, Story, or Reel. Your post will show up and then you can complete the upload process.

In the case of Facebook

If you select ‘POST NOW’, your data will be copied, and you will be taken to your Facebook profile in a new tab in your web browser right away. From here, you can add additional details and post them.

However, if you have scheduled the post for a later time, you will get a push notification through RecurPost’s mobile app. Tapping on it will take you to the Facebook app on your mobile and your data will be copied in your phone’s memory. You can make your post live from this screen.

Step 3: Create a Recurring Post

There are two ways to add recurring posts. One is from the ‘Dashboard’ and the second is from the ‘Recurring Posts‘ tabs on the top menu.

Adding a recurring post to a library is pretty much the same as creating a one-off post. When you create an account, a few libraries will be set up by default. You can use them, or you can create new libraries by clicking on the ‘ADD NEW LIBRARY’ button.

Here, let’s see how to add a post from the Recurring Posts tab. Click on the library that you wish to add post to. You shall get multiple options to add posts inside a library.

Single post:

To add a single post, click on the ‘ADD A POST’ button and the following window shall appear:

Add all the relevant content details such as description, images, videos, or links. You shall also have the option to keep a post remain as a draft until a certain date by enabling the ‘Keep as a draft until’ toggle button. These posts basically shall remain on stand-by until their ‘release date’ after which they shall be added to the library.

After the release date, they shall start going out to the selected social accounts according to the set schedules in a recurring manner. You can also choose to make these posts stop going out to your social accounts after a certain date by enabling the ‘Do not recur after’ toggle button.

Now, if you want a particular post to go out before any other post from the library, you can enable the ‘Make it the next post to go out’ toggle button. Enabling this button will set this post as a priority.

Once you have added all the content and all set click on the ‘Add to Library’.

Add posts in Bulk:

RecurPost supports uploading content in bulk in various ways. You will see multiple options to add post in bulk. Let’s see how to add content in bulk.

You can type in or paste multiple captions that you want as a post, one per line, as shown in the image below:

Please click on ‘Generate preview’ to add other details such as images or links for each post. Each row will be divided and created as its own post, as depicted in the images below.

After adding all the necessary content in each post, click on ‘ADD TO LIBRARY’.

Similarly, you can also upload multiple images and videos by clicking on the ‘UPLOAD IMAGES & VIDEOS’ button. A preview of the posts will be generated where you shall be able to add other content such as text or links to various posts.

In addition to the above methods, you can also upload content using three other methods. Inside a library, you shall also see these options: Import from a CSV, Import from a website, and Import from a social account.

Once all of the posts have been added to the library, you need to add schedules to share posts from this library in a recurring manner. To add a recurring schedule, simply click on the ‘ADD RECURRING TIME SLOTS’ button located in the ‘TIME SLOTS’ tab of the library.

Here, you need to select social accounts and set the frequency in which you want to share the posts. For instance, if you set the frequency to Monday at 5:00 PM for one social account, your posts shall go out sequentially in succession every Monday at 5:00 PM on the selected social accounts in a continuous loop until you pause or delete the library.

After setting the time and selecting the account on which you want to share posts, click on ‘ADD TIME SLOT’. 

Now, when it’s time for a post to go live, you will receive a push notification on your mobile. The data will be copied and you will be taken to your Instagram/Facebook profile where you can complete the uploading process. 

That’s it for creating posts for Instagram and Facebook’s personal profiles using RecurPost! If you have any queries, please contact us at ‘support@recurpost.com’.