I have a sample application that uploads photos to a user's FB account. Of course, FB creates an album with the name of the app and loads the photos in that album.
If the user changes the name of the album, then FB still uploads photos to the same album (although the album has been renamed).
How does FB know which album belongs to my application? There are no obvious signs of linkage between my appid and the album ids / links that FB creates for the album.
Thanks in advance.
SS
There's likely an association on the backend between the AppID and the AlbumID.
There's no simple way to know your app albumID.
Three suggestions for you:
Allow the user to choose the album to upload the photo to. You can do this by uploading to albumid/photos instead of me/photos.
If you want to know your album, once you have uploaded one photo, you can use the returned ID along with FQL to query the photo table. This works independently of album and will let you query on object_id and return the album object id. e.g., SELECT album_object_id from photo where object_id = '(yourobjectid)' Store this, it won't change.
Upload a tiny test photo and use the method from 2 above. This will let you know your current album id. Then delete the tiny test photo.
Hope this helps.
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I'm using https://github.com/arsduo/koala to post photos to Facebook albums. The photos maintain a rough ordering based on the order that the photos are posted, except for the beginning of the album.
Every group of photos that is posted has a few that will move the album covers and post photos at the beginning of the album, rather than at the end in order of photos posted.
I need a solid way of posting photos to Facebook albums where the photos are posted at the end of all the existing photos in the album and do not move the photos at the beginning of the album. There must be some setting to post the photo at the end rather than the beginning. position is deprecated, but seems to be what I want here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/photo
The only way I could get the order to be correct was to post the photos slowly (7-8 seconds between each photo uploaded)
I am able to grab album name and photos uploaded by the user using the graph api.
When I use "https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos?access_token=".$access_token", I get all the tagged photos of the user. Is there a way to get the name of the album of a photo, which has not been uploaded by the user but by his friend?
Thanks
I don't think you can get that directly, but using the "link" attribute you can quickly suss it out, as seen in this example:
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150154222339657&set=a.358879884656.199726.249427954656&type=1"
That set parameter and fbid tell you much more about the photo.
You can view more details about the photo by going to the page for it. It will tell you the position in the album, though it still won't have the album:
http://graph.facebook.com/10150154222339657
You can however determine the album id from the set parameter, the album id is the between the a. and the second ., so in this example the album id is 358879884656
So, the album info would be available at:
http://graph.facebook.com/358879884656
When getting the "me/home" stream there is a difference between the photo objects i get in return. Some of them are returned with the source field (URL to the actual picture) and some not.
After investigating i learned that for photos uploaded to Facebook using the website itself there is the source and images fields in the object,
But for photos uploaded to Facebook by some kind of app (has the "application" field) there are no source/images fields, only a "link" field which direct me to the photo page (whole page, not just the photo)
Does that means i cant get the actual picture file for pics uploaded by apps ? am i missing something?
Update: The photos without the source field are "public".
You can use FQL to get very detailed information about the photo
SELECT src_big FROM photo WHERE pid='{photoId}'
For more information on what you can get from the FQL table see: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/photo/
Note: the quotes around the photo id is required as it is a string value
How can I get the facebooks' user cover photo via the PHP SDK?
Thanks in advance.
B.W.
I have tried to loop through the Graph API, but it didn't work because the album was in the second page, and wasn't displayed.
There's no way to get this without looping through the album list - you could specify a higher limit in the request for the initial list of albums if you really need to do this without paginating through the albums
I am working with FBGraphAPI in my project. I managed to get the list of albums. I tried to get picutre (cover_photo) and photos in albums. But somehow i stuck in it.
Which inbuilt method i need to use to get cover_photo and photos in the album? And how to use it?
To get the cover_photo, you need to use
https://graph.facebook.com/<id>/picture?type=album&access_token=<token>
where id is the cover_photo from your album returned in the album list.
and token is your current session token
Note. It needs to be https and you need to specify the token. This is what makes it different than, for example, rendering a user's photo.
By photos in album, not sure if you mean the list of photos or the actual photo itself?
The basic process is to use the id of the album returned and then call
https://graph.facebook.com/<id>/photos
This will return a list of photos in the album.
Within this list will be 'source' which contains the url of the photo.
Also a dictionary of different photo resolutions.