How to integrate social media in Bubble

The simplest way to integrate social media in Bubble is by using each platform’s official OAuth login action (Bubble’s built‑in plugins) or using the API Connector to call their APIs for posting, fetching profile info, or pulling user data. For OAuth‑based logins like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, you install the plugin, set the API keys, and then use the action Signup/Login with social network. For deeper features like posting to a feed, you must use the API Connector because Bubble’s social login plugins only handle authentication, not content posting.

What “Integrating Social Media” Means

In Bubble this usually means three things:

• Social Login – letting users sign up via Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
• Pulling data – reading user profile details, followers, posts (only if the API allows it).
• Posting content – sending posts, tweets, or media to the platform (requires API permissions).

How to Add Social Login (the easy part)

This works through Bubble’s official plugins. Example: Google.

• Install Bubble’s Google OAuth plugin.
• In Google Cloud, create OAuth credentials and paste the keys in the plugin.
• Use the workflow action Signup/Login with a social network.
• Bubble stores returned data automatically in Current User.

How to Call Social Media APIs (for posting or reading data)

For anything beyond login, you add the API via Bubble’s API Connector. Example: posting to LinkedIn (requires LinkedIn Marketing API permissions).

{
  "author": "urn:li:person:USER_ID", 
  "lifecycleState": "PUBLISHED",
  "specificContent": {
    "com.linkedin.ugc.ShareContent": {
      "shareCommentary": { "text": "Hello from Bubble!" },
      "shareMediaCategory": "NONE"
    }
  }
}

You send this as JSON in a POST request in API Connector after the user authenticates via OAuth2.

Important Notes

• Most platforms (Instagram, TikTok, X) require special permissions to post content.
• Bubble’s built‑in social login plugins do not provide posting capabilities.
• You must store OAuth tokens in the User so you can use them in backend workflows.