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Connect Facebook Pages to Gmail

Your Facebook Page is public; your inbox is where you check things and keep a record. Connecting them means you get an email for every post that goes out, approve drafts from your inbox, and read ad and comment reports without logging into Facebook.
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Ideas

What you can do with Facebook Pages and Gmail

Post confirmations, email approvals, ad reports and comment summaries, between your Facebook Page and Gmail. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
DailyAI

Publish AI posts to your Page with an email record

AI writes and publishes a Facebook post from your topic list, and you get an email with the text and link of what went out.

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DailyAI

Approve trend-based Facebook posts from your inbox

AI drafts posts about trending topics in your field and emails them to you; the ones you approve are published to your Page.

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Every 30 minutesAI

Share new blog posts on Facebook and get an email

Each new blog article is shared on your Facebook Page with a caption, and you get an email confirming it.

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Daily or weeklyAI

Get a Meta Ads report with commentary by email

Each Monday you get an email with last week's Meta ad results by campaign and a few lines on what they mean.

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WeeklyAI

Get a weekly email on how people feel about your posts

Every week you get an email summarising the comments on your recent Facebook posts: overall mood, common themes and anything to follow up.

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Daily

Publish planned posts to Instagram and Facebook with email results

Your planned posts go out on Instagram and your Facebook Page at their scheduled times, and you get an email for each success or failure.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Facebook Pages and Gmail, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Facebook Pages and Gmail automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Facebook Pages and Gmail in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Email me a digest of Facebook comments at 6pm, and only include ones with a question or words like price, order or refund.

When a reply to a draft email says "approve", post it; if it includes edited text, post my edited version instead.

Use cases

Why people connect Facebook Pages and Gmail

How the two apps work together

  • A check every few minutes reads Gmail for messages matching a label or sender, such as approval replies or newsletters.
  • The script posts to your Facebook Page or reads Page activity through the Graph API.
  • Summaries, reports and drafts are sent back to you from your Gmail address.

  • Owners who live in their inbox

    New Page comments arrive as a daily Gmail summary. The owner keeps up without checking Facebook all day.

  • Agencies sending client reports

    A weekly email to each client lists their Page posts, reach and engagement. Reporting takes no manual work.

  • Teams turning newsletters into posts

    When a newsletter lands in Gmail, its main point is turned into a Facebook Page post. Content gets reused.

  • Managers approving posts by email

    Draft posts are emailed and published only after a reply of "approve". Nothing goes live unseen.

More apps

Facebook Pages, Gmail and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Report with history in Sheets

Every Monday, add my Facebook Page stats to a Google Sheet and email me the change from last week.

New blog posts to Facebook, with email log

When I publish on WordPress, post it to my Facebook Page and email me the post link.

Branded images for posts

When I email myself a post idea with the label "fb", create a Canva design from my template with the headline and post it to my Facebook Page.

Setup

Connect Facebook Pages and Gmail once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Facebook Pages

Social

  1. Easiest: in Business Settings, open Users, then System Users, add a system user and assign it your Page and your app.
  2. Generate a token for it with pages_show_list, pages_manage_posts and pages_read_engagement, and save it as a secret on Connections & secrets in the ClickRuntime dashboard.
  3. Or create your own Business app at developers.facebook.com, add Facebook Login for Business and set the redirect URI to https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. Request the same scopes, make sure your account can create content on the Page, then enter the app ID and secret under Connections in the ClickRuntime dashboard.

Gmail

Email

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, create a project and enable the Gmail API under APIs & Services → Library.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen. On Google Workspace choose Internal. On a personal Gmail account choose External, then under Audience click Publish app so it is In production, not Testing.
  3. Under Data Access, add the scopes you need, such as https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify, or gmail.send if you only want to send.
  4. Under Clients, create an OAuth client of type Web application with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  5. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Gmail and enter the client ID and secret. On a personal account Google shows an unverified-app screen: click Advanced, then go to your app.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Facebook Pages and Gmail

Are emails sent from my Gmail address?
Yes. Reports and confirmations are sent from the Gmail account you connect, usually to yourself.
Can I approve posts by email?
Yes. Drafts arrive with an approve link, and nothing is posted until you click it.
Which Facebook access does it need?
Posting rights for automations that publish, and read access to comments or ad results for the reports.
Will my inbox fill up?
Reports come once a day or once a week, and confirmations once per post, so the volume stays small.
Can it reply to comments on Facebook?
Yes, with the Page engagement permission. You can have it post approved replies to comments.
Does it work with Google Workspace accounts?
Yes. Gmail on a personal Google account or a Google Workspace account both work.
Can more than one person approve?
Yes. You can list approvers and the script accepts an approval reply from any of them.

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