How to Add “Webhooks” Platform to Your Facebook App

Add the Webhooks Platform to your Facebook app

Click “Product” button.

Add Product

From the product list page click on “Set Up” button from product with name “Webhooks”. The webhooks Platform will be added to your app, and the webhooks settings console will be displayed.

Set Up Webhooks

Configure the Webhooks for your App

Before setting up a webhook, make sure the Instagram channel is online. If the Instagram channel is offline, you will not be able to verify and save the webhook you have configured.

Enable Instagram Channel

After the Instagram channel is online, on the developer Facebook page click webhooks product and select webhooks category, example select category ‘Instagram‘,

Webhooks Category

Click “Subscribe to this object” button,

Subscribe Object

In the pop up “Edit Instagram Subscription”. This will subscribe your app to receive webhook events for the Page.

Edit Instagram Subscription

In the ‘Callback URL‘ field, copy and paste public URL for your webhook.

Callback URL

Do also copy and paste the callback URL to the Dashboard channel facebook page which can be found on the channel and click ‘Channel URL’. See image below.

Channel URL

Make sure channel url has been added port. Hover on top of channel name to view the channel port, see the image below.

Channel Port

Update the url channel (adding a port be obtained ‘31709‘). See the image below

Update URL Channel

In the ‘Verify Token‘ field, enter the verify token for your webhook. Click the ‘Verify and Save‘ button.

Verify and Save

On the webhook page, click the “Subscribe” button on ‘comment’.

Subscribe