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How can I retrieve the results of these publishing attempts?

  • May 19, 2026
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Hello, I would like to use Zapier to publish articles to Facebook Pages. How can I retrieve the results of these publishing attempts? My specific situation is as follows:

My website is updated with new articles daily. I want to automatically publish these articles—in batches—to multiple Facebook Pages whenever the site is updated. The purpose of batching is to avoid publishing too many posts to a single page at once, which could be flagged as suspicious or detrimental. However, I am aware that publishing articles to Facebook Pages is not a 100% guaranteed process; failures do occur occasionally—for instance, if a specific Page requires verification. Therefore, I need to be able to capture the error messages or failure notifications associated with these failed posts. I intend to develop the necessary functionality on my website to handle this, but I haven't been able to find any tutorials on Zapier explaining how to integrate this feedback mechanism directly into my site.

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Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • May 20, 2026

Hi ​@shares8055 

Available triggers/actions and help links for using FB Pages in Zaps: 

https://zapier.com/apps/facebook-pages/integrations#triggers-and-actions

https://zapier.com/apps/facebook-pages/integrations#help


SamB
Community Manager
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  • Community Manager
  • May 22, 2026

Hi and welcome to the Community ​@shares8055! 😁

You could potentially capture the failures by adding an error handler to the Facebook Pages steps in your Zap. If the Create Page Post (Facebook Pages) step fails, the “Error” path would run. And the “Error” path could have a Webhooks action which sends the error details back to your site. That way your site only gets notified when something fails, with the specific error info included.

Hope that helps. Let us know if you run into any issues setting that up! 


SamB
Community Manager
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  • Community Manager
  • June 25, 2026

Hey ​@shares8055, just checking in! Did the error handler approach work for capturing those failed posts?


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  • June 29, 2026

A clean way to do this is to capture the output of each publish step rather than trying to read it back later. The Facebook Pages action returns a post ID and status in its step output, so add a step right after it that writes that result somewhere you control, like a Google Sheets row or an Airtable record with the article, the page, the post ID, and a timestamp.

 

For the batches, run the articles through a Looping by Zapier step so each one is its own attempt, and a single failure does not stop the rest. Your sheet then becomes the running log of which attempts succeeded.

 

If you also want the errors captured, turn on Zap error notifications, or add a path that catches a missing post ID and records it as a failed attempt.