Trying to create a wall post with photo attached. Photo is a Facebook-hosted photo within some album.
Problem here - Facebook won't allow including facebook-hosted content in posts ((#100) FBCDN image is not allowed in stream )
From the Web UI, it's possible to "Share" a photo on my wall - that's almost what i need but i don't know the Graph API equivalent for that operation (if there's any)
Any help appreciated.
The answer is "me/links"
passing http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=** as a link
With the Graph API you can share the photo as a link.
this is the documentation:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/#links
You need send a POST request to me/feed/. And indeed send the link: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=[the id of the photo]
Make sure the publish_stream permission is allowed for the access_token.
with Jquery this is an example:
$.post(
'http://www.facebook.com/me/feed',
{
link: 'http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=[THE_PHOTO_ID],
access_token: [YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN]
},
function(result) { console.log('shared'); },
'text'
);
Related
Facebook mentioned they're now making reels data available with the /insights endpoint, yay (see here )!
Although the article says they've updated their docs I don't see how it would be formatted, do we think the format will be like this?
insta_page_id/insights?metric=reels&period=lifetime
For a reels post in Instagram, you can try the following query in the Meta Graph API explorer(Assuming you have an app with required permissions):
[IGpost-id]/insights?metric=likes, comments, shares, plays,reach,saved,total_interactions
The above query should give you a response for these metric.
Currently I did not find any media_type as "reels". A reels media_type is still tagged as Video. Only way to identify if a post is a reel is through the permalink url which contains https://www.instagram.com/**reel**/XXXXXXX in it.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/ig-media/insights/
Thanks to #KristiLuna's comment above I was able to solve a similar problem.
Instagram reels are still identified by the Instagram Graph API as media_type: "VIDEO". The way to tell the difference between a feed video and a reel is by checking the media_product_type field on the Graph API.
My approach (to loop through an Instagram user's media):
fetch (`https://graph.facebook.com/v14.0/${ig-user-id}/media?fields=id,media_type,media_product_type`, {method: 'get'})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => {
let dataObject = data.data
dataObject.forEach((item, i) => {
if (dataObject[i].media_type === "VIDEO" && dataObject[i].media_product_type === "REELS") {
// do stuff
})
}
}
I am trying to develop one-click-integration support for my bot, which will include FB messenger.
For the FB messenger I did the following:
Followed the "quick-start" guide and created a Facebook App.
Followed the "facebook-login" tutorial and deployed a facebook login process which works with permissions for:
- public_profile
- email
- manage_pages
- pages_show_list
- pages_messaging_subscriptions
- pages_messaging
I then used the graph-api of '/me/accounts' to get list of pages name , page ids, and access_token under a "test user" I created in facebook.
Now, I picked a page under this "test user" (with all the permissions), and tried to run this JS code -
FB.api(
`/${page.id}/subscribed_apps?access_token=${page.access_token}`,
function (response) {
console.log(`response = {$JSON.stringify(response)}`);
if (response && !response.error) {
/* handle the result */
}
}
);
The problem: I get response = {"data":[]} , which might be OK, but when I look at the page->settings->Messenger Platform->Subscribed Apps , I don't see any app subscribed there.
By the way, When I run this without the proper access_token , I do get an error #210 ("needs access_token") which is as expected...
Any idea how to subscribe the app properly to the page?
Must say I also tried it with the graph api explorer tool and got the same result...
Thanks in advance :-).
#CBroe got it correct and there were 2 issues:
1. I should have used the POST() instead of GET() method.
2. When you use the graph-api-explorer tool, you will see it works, then role down and get the JS code... problem is the code is a bit confusing since what you get is this:
FB.api(
`/${my_page_id}/subscribed_apps`,
'POST',
{},
function(response) {
// Insert your code here
}
);
but, it should actually be like this:
FB.api(
`/${my_page_id}/subscribed_apps`,
'POST',
{"access_token": `${page_access_token}`},
function(response) {
// Insert your code here
}
);
remeber to take the access_token from the /me/accounts api as I described in my question.
Thanks again to #CBroe for showing me how to solve this :-)
I have an app that lets me take a pic or choose from my gallery and upload it to my personal fb page.
How can I let it upload to my fanpage instead of my own page?
I use this for putting it in my page:
var data = {picture: image};
Titanium.Facebook.requestWithGraphPath('me/photos', data, "POST", function(e){
if(e.success) {
var d = Titanium.UI.createAlertDialog({
title: Titanium.App.Properties.getString("namn"),
message: 'Uploaded!',
buttonNames: ['Ok'],
});
d.show(); }
It wont just work to change the 'me/photos' to 'pageid/photos'.
What will I have to do to get it to work?
Thanx
As described under the photos secion in the Graph API Documentation for
Page
You should name the parameter source and not picture
Also, make sure you have the publish_stream and manage_pages permissions
Hey all,
I've made a facebook application for a contest, which allows users to upload their photo. Once uploaded, the photo gets posted to a dedicated album on their profile. Once the photo is there, the users should collect as many likes as possible.
Currently i have tried both the Facebook Graph API and Facebook FQL to retrieve the amount of likes, but the retrieved likes don't always match the likes on a users profile.
Some users claim to have more then 200 likes, yet the API only returned a maximum of 101 likes so far.
All users are requested to grant the application the following permissions:
user_hometown, publish_stream, read_stream, user_photos and offline_access
Using Facebook PHP SDK 3.0.1 I tried this FQL query to collect the amount of likes of a photo:
# fql query
$fql = "SELECT object_id FROM like WHERE object_id=" . $photo_id;
# api request
$request = array(
'method' => 'fql.query', 'query' => $fql
);
# run batch request
$likes = $this->facebook->api($request);
# return like count
return count($likes);
I also tried the following Graph API request (Also with Facebook PHP SDK 3.0.1) to collect the amount of likes of a photo:
$likes = $this->facebook->api($photo_id.'/likes');
return count($likes['data']);
Strangely, neither seem to return correct results. I can understand if the API is slightly inaccurate, but according to the API some pictures recieved 100 likes this morning and then 0 likes a few hours later.
Does anyone have any ideas what i might be doing wrong? Do the photo's and their albums need to be public? Do the people who liked the photo need to have a public profile in order to show up in the API? Do i need to request additional permissions?
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Just had the same problem here. The likes seems to be paginated by hundreds by default. Override this setting by using the "LIMIT" query option.
Does anyone have any ideas what i might be doing wrong?
yes, I believe that it is against Facebook policy to use their likes plugin for a contest. See: https://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php
# fql query
$fql = "SELECT like_info FROM photo WHERE object_id=" . $photo_id;
# api request
$request = array(
'method' => 'fql.query', 'query' => $fql
);
# run batch request
$likeInfo = $facebook->api(array(
'method' => 'fql.query', 'query' => $fql
));
var_dump($likeInfo);die;
=> get like info of photo
brand new here.. I've looked everywhere, couldn't find an answer.. :/ Hopefully someone here can help me out. I'm using the graph api to upload a photo, and tag the user in it. This is currently working great. I would like to show the user the image, in the album, so I need the image id to generate the url. I cannot figure out how to do this!! Below are the lines of code that upload/tag the photo, to my app's album. What do I need to do to get this image id? Thanks a lot! -Tim
$user = $facebook->getUser();
function post_image($facebook, $user,
$image_path){
try{ $tag = array(
'tag_uid' => $facebook->getUser(),
'x' => 0,
'y' => 0
);
$tags[] = $tag;
$image = array(
'message'=> 'Your Banner Photo', 'tags' => $tags,
);
$facebook->setFileUploadSupport(true);
$image['image'] = '#'.realpath($image_path);
$facebook->api('/me/photos', 'POST', $image);
echo "";
return true;
}catch(FacebookApiException $e){
echo $e;
return false;
} }
Sadly, you have to do it as a separate query. You have to get the users galleries (first graph API call). then find the gallery ID you want and request the photos (second graph API call) then parse through the photos to find the one you want. Finally you have to request that photo.
-------------------Update:---------------------------
I'm not a very proficient php developer, but i use facebook api all the time with javascript or actionscript. The basic premise is to call the graph api, and it will return a json object of the result. Use getFile or Curl to load the graph api responses.
You can test your graph api calls here:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=663032752
so try and walk that through from the graph api. Get the user galleries, then get the photos, then get the one you want.
To get the albums, call
"https://graph.facebook.com/me/albums?access_token="._accessToken;
To get the photos in an album you call it using:
https://graph.facebook.com/"._albumID."/photos?access_token="._accessToken;
And then to get the individual photo you would get the photo's ID property and call that.
sometihng like:
"https://graph.facebook.com/".your_photo_id;
I think using CURL is a good approach, but I'm weak on php, so use what you are comfortable with.
You have the photo ID in facebook API response, if it is uploaded successfully:
$result = $facebook->api('/me/photos', 'POST', $image);
echo $result['id'];