I need to get the URL's and names of the Photos contained in a Facebook Photo Album.
I know this is possible through graph.facebook.com but I don't know where to find the ID of an Album.
As an example you can use this Album: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.210725979538.130908.69116329538
Which one of the Numbers is the Album ID? And How do I get the Photo URL's with name??
Thank you in advance.
Just get the /albums relationship. For your example:
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=thebeatles%2Falbums
Then use 10150213069439539/photos to get the photos of the first album (or any other album you want, just change the id based on what you got from /albums).
I suggest you to read the whole Graph API Core Concepts page and trying its examples.
And also read the album and photo documentation.
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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.
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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.
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
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.
Using the Facebook Graph API how can find the most liked photo in an album on one of my pages?
I have access to the page insights if that can be used.
There are 200 photos in each album so I don't want to do an api request for each photo.
Subsequently you may also find the most commented on.
Here is the code you request:
http://fivespot.me/fblikes.php
$likes = $facebook->api('/'.$picId.'/likes');
However if you are looking to just find out the most liked there is an app already compiled that will do this for you:
http://apps.facebook.com/imanpic/
The Graph API doesnt support querying for an arbitrary set of photos with some criteria. BUT - you can access the Likes object for each Album, which returns a data set representing all the Liked Photos in that Album. You could then just walk that data set and count the number of times you see the same photo Like.
Thus - you just need to issue a Graph API call for Likes sub-object of an Album.
See "Likes" under "Connections" at:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/album/