Facebook API upload photo from URL - facebook

Question

I have a website with photo gallery and I'd like to upload each photo (one by one) to my facebook page (not wall). I managed to post a message but now I want to upload a photo to a FB Page Wall by uploading an existing image from the server - specific URL (I don't want to upload again locally). Is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes you can do it
Example
In Graph Api Explorer
Make the call post, set url to https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos,
Add field with key message and value "any custom message"
Add another field with key url and value https://appharbor.com/assets/images/stackoverflow-logo.png
click submit

Answer 2

You need to know the album id and make call POST to:
https://graph.facebook.com/albumid/photos?access_token=$access_token
You will find the album id entering into the album and looking at the URL. Will be something like https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.XXXXXXXXXXX.YYYY.ZZZZZZZZZZ&type=3
Your album id are the XXXX.

Answer 3

this is what I use:
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => FACEBOOK_APP_ID,
'secret' => FACEBOOK_SECRET,
'cookie' => true,
'fileUpload' => true,
));
$user = $facebook->getUser(); // Get the UID of the connected user, or 0 if the Facebook user is not connected.
$facebook->setFileUploadSupport(true);
if($user == 0) {
// If the user is not connected to your application, redirect the user to authentication page
/**
* Get a Login URL for use with redirects. By default, full page redirect is
* assumed. If you are using the generated URL with a window.open() call in
* JavaScript, you can pass in display=popup as part of the $params.
*
* The parameters:
* - redirect_uri: the url to go to after a successful login
* - scope: comma separated list of requested extended perms
*/
$login_url = $facebook->getLoginUrl($params = array('redirect_uri' => REDIRECT_URI,'scope' => PERMISSIONS_REQUIRED));
echo ("<script> top.location.href='".$login_url."'</script>");
} else {
// if the user is already connected, then fetch access_token and user's information or show some content to logged in user.
try
{
$access_token = $facebook->getAccessToken(); // Gives you current user's access_token
$user = $facebook->api('/me'); // Gets User's information based on permissions the user has granted to your application.
} catch(FacebookApiException $e){
$results = $e->getResult();
// Print results if you want to debug.
}
}
$img = './upload/'.$image_path;
$args = array(
'message' => 'Some Message',
'access_token'=>urlencode($access_token),
);
$args[basename($img)] = '#'.realpath($img);
$ch = curl_init();
$url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$response = json_decode($data,true);

Answer 4

$config = array('appId' => $config['App_ID'],'secret' => $config['App_Secret']);
$facebook = new Facebook($config);
// sets our access token as the access token when we call
// something using the SDK, which we are going to do now.
$facebook->setAccessToken($access_token);
$page_id = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
$page_access_token = "";
$result = $facebook->api("/me/accounts");
foreach($result["data"] as $page) {
if($page["id"] == $page_id) {
$page_access_token = $page["access_token"];
break;
}
}
$facebook->setFileUploadSupport(true);
$photo = "http://cdn.sstatic.net/stackexchange/img/logos/so/so-logo.png";
$args = array(
'access_token' => $page_access_token,
'message' => "message here",
'url' => $photo,
);
$post = $facebook->api("/$page_id/photos","post",$args);