AutoGP posts from your real Facebook account, through the session you're logged in to in Chrome. Facebook can limit or restrict accounts that post too much, and no tool can make an account immune, AutoGP included. What AutoGP does is post at a pace that fits the account, spread out and varied, and stop the moment Facebook objects. This protection is on by default.
A daily limit that warms up
When you first open AutoGP, it asks how old your Facebook account is and whether it has posted in groups before. From your answers it sets a careful daily limit and raises it week by week as the account warms up, up to a ceiling for the account's age. An older account gets a higher ceiling.
The starting limit is low enough that, spread over the day by the waits below, even a new account can carry it. An account that posts in groups regularly starts higher, and one that has never posted in groups starts lower. You can set a limit of your own in Settings instead. If a run would go over the day's limit, AutoGP tells you before it starts.
Posts spread out, not in a burst
- A wait between groups. AutoGP waits a random time between one group and the next, set by the speed you choose on the Post tab: 90 to 150 seconds at Steady, the default, 4 to 6 minutes at Careful, and 30 to 45 seconds at Faster. Customize sets a range of your own.
- Longer waits as the day fills up. The wait stretches after 10 posts in a day, more than doubles past 30, and keeps growing past 60 and 100.
- Rests. Every so often it takes a longer break, the way a person would.
- Posting hours. It posts between 08:00 and 23:00 your time by default. You can change the hours in Settings. A run still going when they end stops there and carries on by itself when they next start, and the check before a run shows how it will split.
- One run at a time, so two runs never post from the account at once.
Every copy a little different
- Spintax. Write choices like
{Hi|Hey|Hello}, and each group gets one of them, so no two copies are identical. - Varied images. Each group gets a very slightly changed copy of your images, rather than the same files every time.
- A warning about repeats. Before a run starts, AutoGP warns you when the post is very similar to one you sent in the last day.
It stops when Facebook objects
AutoGP tells two kinds of problem apart:
- A problem with one group, such as a group that doesn't let you post, is skipped, and the run carries on with the others.
- A problem with your account, such as Facebook blocking posting for a while, asking you to confirm it's you, restricting the account or logging you out, stops the whole run at once. Pressing on would only add to what Facebook objected to.
Either way, the Results tab says what happened in each group, and every reason has a help page of its own.
A day of rest after a warning
After a block or a "confirm it's you" check, the account rests for 24 hours, because these often lift after a day without posting and posting through them can turn them into a longer restriction. During the rest:
- Scheduled posts pause, unless you had already paused them for longer.
- A run you start by hand asks first, so you post through the rest only on purpose.
- The speed changes to Careful, and stays there when the rest ends.
The panel says the account is resting on every tab, and End the rest now ends it early. The rest is on by default; you can turn it off in Settings (Rest a day after a warning from Facebook).
What stays up to you
AutoGP paces your posts, but you choose what to post and where, and that matters as much as any setting:
- Start small. A new account posting to many groups on its first day is the pattern that gets flagged, whatever the post says.
- Follow each group's rules, especially about links and promotion.
- Check Account Status on Facebook now and then, so you notice a warning early.
The Terms of Service set out this risk in full, and our guide on whether auto-posting to Facebook groups is safe covers what actually gets accounts restricted.
When to contact support
Email support@autogp.ai if AutoGP doesn't seem to do what this page says: for example, if a run goes past the daily limit without you choosing to, or posts outside your posting hours. Include what Run Diagnostics shows.