How can I get all photos in one post using Graph API? - facebook

Question

{
"id": "11882030_4952296803730",
"from": {
"name": "xxx",
"id": "11882030"
},
"message": "test",
"picture": "https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/408410_4952294483672_298434229_s.jpg",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4952294483672&set=pcb.4952296803730&type=1&relevant_count=2",
"icon": "https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yx/r/og8V99JVf8G.gif",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/11882030/posts/4952296803730"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/11882030/posts/4952296803730"
}
],
"privacy": {
"description": "Friends",
"value": "ALL_FRIENDS",
"friends": "",
"networks": "",
"allow": "",
"deny": ""
},
"place": {
"id": "471607792876974",
"name": "TTT",
"location": {
"street": "",
"zip": "",
"latitude": x,
"longitude": x
}
},
"type": "photo",
"status_type": "mobile_status_update",
"object_id": "4952294483672",
"application": {
"name": "Facebook for iPhone",
"namespace": "fbiphone",
"id": "6628568379"
},
"created_time": "2013-01-17T01:29:59+0000",
"updated_time": "2013-01-17T01:29:59+0000",
"comments": {
"count": 0
}
}
As above, I posted a status with two photos. I can get the first photo's thumb URL in picture and the relevant link & count information in link.
But how can I get each photo's specific URL?

Answer 1

FQL often provides more information than Graph API. You have to use the attachment parameter of the stream FQL table to get all the attached photos.
SELECT attachment FROM stream
WHERE source_id = me()
AND post_id="11882030_4952296803730"
Result:
{
"data": [
{
"attachment": {
"media": [
{
"href": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=471082296...",
"alt": "",
"type": "photo",
"src": "https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/5826...",
"photo": {
"aid": "4391039135",
"pid": "439104482145",
"fbid": 471507,
"owner": 102832,
"index": 1,
"width": 485,
"height": 172,
"images": [
{
"src": "https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hph...",
"width": 130,
"height": 46
}
]
}
}
],
"name": "",
"caption": "",
"description": "",
"properties": [
],
"icon": "https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.phpjk.gif",
"fb_object_type": "album",
"fb_object_id": "4391044992857139135"
},
{
... //Photo 2
}
}
]
}

Answer 2

Based on Stéphane Bruckerts answer; you're after attachments. So I'd recommend simply requesting the attachments field in your graph request.

Answer 3

Although this question is a few years old, it still comes up when searching for this topic.
Facebook (Meta) Graph API has changed. Current Facebook (Meta) Graph API is version 13.0.
The best endpoint I found was to use the "/feed" URI slug, with "fields=attachments". Simply cURL / GET:
https://graph.facebook.com/v13.0/$PAGEID/feed?access_token=$AUTHTOKEN&fields=attachments,full_picture,id,message,story
Reference: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v13.0/page/feed