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Connect your Facebook account

To read listings inside private groups, Housing Scout needs to view Facebook as you — a logged-in member. You give it permission by copying your Facebook "session cookies" once. It takes about two minutes, and you'll only redo it every few weeks.

There's no password involved and nothing to type out by hand. A small free browser add-on copies the cookies for you in one click — you just paste them into Housing Scout.

Step 1 — Install the free "EditThisCookie (V3)" add-on

Works in Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave and other Chromium-based browsers. Not available for Firefox or Safari.

Get EditThisCookie (V3) — free

Opens the Chrome Web Store listing. It's a well-known, actively maintained extension with ~400K users.

Then, once it's installed

  1. Open Facebook and make sure you're logged in

    Go to facebook.com in the same browser and sign in as normal. Leave that tab open.

  2. Click the EditThisCookie icon

    While you're on the Facebook tab, click the EditThisCookie icon in your toolbar. If you don't see it, click the puzzle-piece menu and pick EditThisCookie from the list.

  3. Export as JSON

    In the little window that opens, click the Export icon (bottom toolbar), then choose JSON as the format. That copies all your Facebook cookies to your clipboard — nothing gets saved to a file.

  4. Paste into Housing Scout

    Come back here, paste into the Facebook session cookies box (replace anything already there), and click Save settings. That's it — you're connected.

Your privacy: these cookies are stored only on your own machine and are never sent anywhere except to Facebook, exactly as your own browser does. They expire after a few weeks — if Housing Scout stops finding new posts, just repeat these steps to refresh them. You can log out of these cookies any time by changing your Facebook password.