A 400-character caption on Facebook Pages
Facebook Pages shows about the first 480 characters before "…more", so -80 of the 400 are hidden until someone taps. Put the hook in those first 480.
Facebook giveaway winner picker
Paste your Facebook giveaway entrants and draw a real, cryptographically random winner — entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded. This does not fetch Facebook’s actual comments itself (no static tool safely can); paste the names or comments you’ve already collected, and it draws fairly from exactly that list. Meta’s own Facebook promotion rules still apply to how you run the giveaway. Facebook Pages posts take up to 63,206 characters, shows about 480 before "…more".
How do you use the Facebook giveaway picker?
- Collect your entrants from Facebook. Copy commenter names, or however you’re defining an entry, from the actual post or comment thread.
- Paste them in, one per line. Or comma-separated — duplicates can be allowed (one entry per comment) or removed (one entry per unique person).
- Set how many winners to draw. Draws distinct winners with no repeats when you ask for more than one.
- Draw the winner. A cryptographically random pick from exactly your pasted list, computed in your browser.
- Follow Meta’s promotion rules. Facebook requires disclosing that a promotion isn’t sponsored, endorsed or administered by Facebook itself, among other rules — this tool doesn’t enforce or verify that for you.
What are the Facebook Pages rules to know?
The limits SkedCast’s composer checks for Facebook Pages before a post goes out, read from the same rules table the composer uses.
| Text limit | 63,206 characters |
|---|---|
| How length is counted | As you see it: one emoji or accented letter counts as one character |
| Hashtags | No hashtag cap enforced |
| Where the caption is cut off in the feed | About 480 characters before "…more", so lead with the point |
| Text-only posts | Allowed |
| Links in the text | A pasted URL shows a link-preview card |
| First comment | Supported: SkedCast can post a first comment right after publishing |
| Images | up to 10 per post · JPEG, PNG · max 10 MB each · aspect ratio 9:16 to 16:9 |
| Video | up to 1 per post · MP4, MOV · up to 4 hours · max 10,240 MB · 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 recommended |
Good to know
- Facebook can only post to Pages you administer — not to a personal profile/timeline.
- Facebook Reels must be a single vertical (9:16) video, roughly 3–90 seconds long.
- Facebook does not support polls via the API.
- You cannot mix photos and video in one Facebook feed post — a video must be the only media item.
- Facebook posts have no separate title field.
What does it look like in practice?
Picking 1 winner from 40 comments, duplicates allowed
If 5 people each commented multiple times, each comment counts as a separate entry — matching a "each comment is an entry" giveaway rule rather than a "one entry per person" rule.
Picking 3 winners, duplicates removed
The same 40 comments from 25 unique commenters draw 3 distinct people, none repeated, matching a "one entry per person" giveaway rule.
Facebook giveaway picker FAQ
- Does this tool pull comments from my Facebook post automatically?
- No — it draws from exactly the list you paste in. Fetching a Facebook post’s actual comments would require the account owner’s OAuth access, which a public tool like this cannot safely do.
- Does this tool handle Facebook’s promotion rules for me?
- No — Meta’s own Facebook promotion guidelines (like disclosing the promotion isn’t run by Facebook itself) still apply, and you’re responsible for following them.
- Does this tool work for both Facebook Pages and Groups?
- Yes — it draws from whatever list of names or comments you paste in, regardless of whether you collected them from a Page post or a Group post.
- Can I post text only on Facebook Pages?
- Yes. Facebook Pages accepts a text-only post, up to 63,206 characters.
- Will Facebook Pages cut off a long caption?
- In the feed, yes: Facebook Pages shows roughly the first 480 characters and hides the rest behind "…more", so put the hook and any call to action first.
- How many hashtags can a Facebook Pages post have?
- SkedCast enforces no hashtag cap for Facebook Pages; the practical limit is the 63,206-character text limit and what reads well.
- What happens to a link in a Facebook Pages post?
- The link counts at its real length, and Facebook Pages shows a link-preview card for it.
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