I'm currently using the Graph API Explorer to make some tests. That's a good tool.
I want to get the user's friend list, with friends' names, ids and pictures. So I type :
https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=id,picture,name
But picture is only 50x50, and I would like a larger one in this request.
Is it possible ?
As described in this bug on Facebook, you can also request specific image sizes now via the new API "field expansion" syntax.
Like so:
https://graph.facebook.com/____OBJECT_ID____?fields=picture.type(large)
The best way to get all friends (who are using the App too, of course) with correct picture sizes is to use field expansion, either with one of the size tags (square, small, normal, large):
/me/friends?fields=picture.type(large)
(edit: this does not work anymore)
...or you can specify the width/height:
me/friends?fields=picture.width(100).height(100)
Btw, you can also write it like this:
me?fields=friends{picture.type(large)}
you do not need to pull 'picture' attribute though. there is much more convenient way, the only thing you need is userid, see example below;
https://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?type=large
p.s. type defines the size you want
plz keep in mind that using token with basic permissions, /me/friends will return list of friends only with id+name attributes
You can set the size of the picture in pixels, like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.8/me?fields=id,name,picture.width(500).height(500)
In the similar manner, type parameter can be used
{user-id}/?fields=name,picture.type(large)
From the documentation
type
enum{small, normal, album, large, square}
Change the array of fields id,name,picture to id,name,picture.type(large)
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.8/me?fields=id,name,picture.type(large)&access_token=<the_token>
Result:
{
"id": "130716224073524",
"name": "Julian Mann",
"picture": {
"data": {
"is_silhouette": false,
"url": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p200x200/15032818_133926070419206_3681208703790460208_n.jpg?oh=a288898d87420cdc7ed8db5602bbb520&oe=58CB5D16"
}
}
}
You can also try getting the image if you want it based on the height or width
https://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?height=
OR
https://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?width=
The values are by default in pixels you just need to provide the int value
I researched Graph API Explorer extensively and finally found full_picture
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/$id/posts?fields=picture,full_picture
P.S. I noticed that full_picture won't always provide full size image I want. 'attachments' does
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/$id/posts?fields=picture,full_picture,attachments
Hum... I think I've found a solution.
In fact, in can just request
https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=id,name
According to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ (section "Pictures"), url of profile's photos can be built with the user id
For example, assuming user id is in $id :
"http://graph.facebook.com/$id/picture?type=square"
"http://graph.facebook.com/$id/picture?type=small"
"http://graph.facebook.com/$id/picture?type=normal"
"http://graph.facebook.com/$id/picture?type=large"
But it's not the final image URL, so if someone have a better solution, i would be glad to know :)
You can specify width & height in your request to Facebook graph API: http://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?width=500&height=500
You can size it as follows.
Use:
https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID?fields=picture.type(large)
For details: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/picture/
From v2.7, /<picture-id>?fields=images will give you a list with different size of the images, the first element being the full size image.
I don't know of any solution for multiple images at once.
I got this error when I made a request with picture.type(full_picture):
"(#100) For field 'picture': type must be one of the following
values: small, normal, album, large, square"
When I make the request with picture.type(album) and picture.type(square), responses me with an image 50x50 pixel size.
When I make the request with picture.type(large), responses me with an image 200x200 pixel size.
When I make the request with picture.width(800), responses me with an image 477x477 pixel size.
with picture.width(250), responses 320x320.
with picture.width(50), responses 50x50.
with picture.width(100), responses 100x100.
with picture.width(150), responses 160x160.
I think that facebook gives the images which resized variously when the user first add that photo.
What I see here the API for requesting user Image does not support
resizing the image requested. It gives the nearest size of image, I think.
In pictures URL found in the Graph responses (the "http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/" ones), just replace the default "_s.jpg" by "_n.jpg" (? normal size) or "_b.jpg" (? big size) or "_t.jpg" (thumbnail).
Hacakable URLs/REST API make the Web better.
rest-fb users (square image, bigger res.):
Connection myFriends = fbClient.fetchConnection("me/friends", User.class, Parameter.with("fields", "public_profile,email,first_name,last_name,gender,picture.width(100).height(100)"));
I think that as of now the only way to get large pictures of friends is to use FQL. First, you need to fetch a list of friends:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends
Then parse this list and extract all friends ids. When you have that, just execute the following FQL query:
SELECT id, url FROM profile_pic WHERE id IN (id1, id2) AND width=200 AND height=200
200 here is just an exemplary size, you can enter anything. You should get the following response:
{
"data": [
{
"id": ...,
"url": "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/..."
},
{
"id": ...,
"url": "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/..."
}
]
}
With each url being the link to a 200x200px image.
I have the same problem but i tried this one to solve my problem. it returns large image.
It is not the perfect fix but you can try this one.
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/OBJECT_ID/picture?access_token=XXXXX
try to change the size of the image by changing the pixel size from the url in each json object as follows :
for example I change s480x480 to be s720x720
Before :
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/q71/s480x480/10454308_773207849398282_283493808478577207_n.jpg
After :
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/q71/s720x720/10454308_773207849398282_283493808478577207_n.jpg
JS styled variant.
Just set enormous large picture width and you will get the largest variant.
FB.api(
'/' + userId,
{fields: 'picture.width(2048)'},
function (response) {
if (response && !response.error) {
console.log(response.picture.data.url);
}
}
);
You can use full_picture instead of picture key to get full size image.
Note: From Graph API v8.0 you must provide the access token for every UserID request you do.
Hitting the graph API:
https://graph.facebook.com/<user_id>/picture?height=1000&access_token=<any_of_above_token>
With firebase:
FirebaseUser user = mAuth.getCurrentUser();
String photoUrl = user.getPhotoUrl() + "/picture?height=1000&access_token=" +
loginResult.getAccessToken().getToken();
You get the token from registerCallback just like this
LoginManager.getInstance().registerCallback(mCallbackManager, new FacebookCallback<LoginResult>() {
#Override
public void onSuccess(LoginResult loginResult) {
FirebaseUser user = mAuth.getCurrentUser();
String photoUrl = user.getPhotoUrl() + "/picture?height=1000&access_token=" + loginResult.getAccessToken().getToken();
}
#Override
public void onCancel() {
Log.d("Fb on Login", "facebook:onCancel");
}
#Override
public void onError(FacebookException error) {
Log.e("Fb on Login", "facebook:onError", error);
}
});
This is what documentation says:
Beginning October 24, 2020, an access token will be required for all
UID-based queries. If you query a UID and thus must include a token:
use a User access token for Facebook Login authenticated requests
use a Page access token for page-scoped requests
use an App access token for server-side requests
use a Client access token for mobile or web client-side requests
We recommend that you only use a Client token if you are unable to use
one of the other token types.
I'm having trouble using the API to view a segment. I'm using PHP. My code is as follows:
$url = "https://us7.api.mailchimp.com/export/1.0/list/?apikey=$api_key&id=$list_id&$segment";
$result = file_get_contents($url);
where $segment is an array used to generate the segment.
I can get the following version working...
$segment = "segment[match]=all"
"&segment[conditions][0][field]=LNAME".
"&segment[conditions][0][op]=like".
"&segment[conditions][0][value]=smith";
which generates a segment of all subscribers to my list with a last name containing "smith".
However, what I actually want to do is generate a segment based on people who've been sent any mailer in the last 7 days. I've created this manually to get the correct fields and generated the following array based on it:
$segment = "segment[match]=all".
"&segment[conditions][0][condition_type]=Aim".
"&segment[conditions][0][field]=aim".
"&segment[conditions][0][op]=sent".
"&segment[conditions][0][value]=last7day";
but it's giving me a 300 error. This isn't listed in MailChimp's current error glossary on the export api documentation, but according to a snapshot of the old error documentation means "Campaign doesn't exist" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130209144951/https://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/1.3/exceptions.field.php) which is weird because I'm not referencing a campaign.
What am I doing wrong?
// , Click on playground and with your API key.
Generate some responses and look at the campaign id.
It's not the integer value you see when hovering over the campaign with id=, it's another value.
Look for the id that the API needs in the response.
This will fix your issue.
Here's some code:
$facebookUrl = 'https://graph.facebook.com/'.$facebookPageId.'/posts?&access_token='.$facebookAppId.'|'.$facebookAppSecret;
$facebookData = json_decode(curlRequest($facebookUrl))->data;
curlRequest is successfully returning data but it's limited. The response has the following items:
message
story
created_time
id
It's bad enough these don't include a photo (which all of these posts do) but what's worse is that I have no link that takes me to the post.
Twitter has a redirect using 'https://twitter.com/statuses/'. $post->id; does Facebook have something similar? Or better yet how do I get all of the data for these posts?
Link to the post would be
$facebookUrl = 'https://graph.facebook.com/'.$facebookPageId.'/posts?&access_token='.$facebookAppId.'|'.$facebookAppSecret;
$facebookData = json_decode(curlRequest($facebookUrl))->data;
$link = "http:/fb.com/".$facebookData->id; //This short link will redirect to the pages' post
The $facebookData->id is made up of unique values i.e. the part before "_" (underscore) describes the parent (page,user,group,event) and string after underscore is the post id of its parent.
Adding to Nishant's helpful answer above, Facebook has a lot of other data you can get as part of the Post object, as outlined in their docs. By default, though, all it sends is
message
story
created_time
id
In order to retrieve any other fields, the request has to specify those fields in the query params. For example, if I want the picture and link associated with a Post, I would construct my GET request thus:
https://graph.facebook.com/POST_ID?fields=picture,link&access_token=YOUR_TOKEN
And I would get a response like this:
{
"link": "http://example.com/link",
"picture": "https://example.com/picture",
"id": POST_ID
}
I don't know PHP so can't give the specific syntax for OP's question, but this should get you most of the way there.
Example link for Facebook post:
facebook.com/123123123/posts/890890890/
pattern:
facebook.com/{{page_id}}/posts/{{post_id}}/
where from API post_id => {{page_id}}_{{post_id}}
Using Foursquare API it returns me the following JSON feed
{"meta":{"code":200},"notifications":[{"type":"notificationTray","item":{"unreadCount":1}},{"type":"message","item":{"message":"OK! We've got you # Place XXX. You've been here 2 times."}},{"type":"insights","item":{"insights":{"count":4,"items":[{"type":"pointsReward","image":"https://foursquare.com/img/points/discovery-venue3.png","title":"First of your friends to check into Place XXX!","shareable":false,"points":{"image":{"prefix":"https://foursquare.com/img/points/discovery-venue3_","sizes":[44,60,120],"name":".png"},"message":"First of your friends to check into Place XXX!","points":5}},{"type":"pointsReward","image":"https://foursquare.com/img/points/discovery-venue3.png","title":"First time at Place XXX.","shareable":false,"points":{"image":{"prefix":"https://foursquare.com/img/points/discovery-venue3_","sizes":[44,60,120],"name":".png"},"message":"First time at Place XXX.","points":5}},{"type":"pointsReward","image":"https://foursquare.com/img/points/category-outdoor.png","title":"First Plaza check-in of your friends!","shareable":false,"points":{"image":{"prefix":"https://foursquare.com/img/points/category-outdoor_","sizes":[44,60,120],"name":".png"},"message":"First Plaza check-in of your friends!","points":6}},{"type":"pointsReward","image":"https://foursquare.com/img/points/discovery-venue3.png","title":"First of your friends to check in here.","shareable":false,"points":{"image":{"prefix":"https://foursquare.com/img/points/discovery-venue3_","sizes":[44,60,120],"name":".png"},"message":"First of your friends to check in here.","points":2}}]}}},{"type":"leaderboard","item":{"total":18,"scores":[{"icon":"https://foursquare.com/img/points/discovery-venue3.png","message":"First of your friends to check into...
What I would like to do is to display the message "OK! We've got you # Place XXX. You've been here 2 times." which is embedded in the second "type" tag
I'm used to do get this kind of value using a foreach function but with this one I cannot get it.
I need help from an expert, thanks for your participation.
Code Im trying to use without success:
$data = json_decode($response, true); // return array not object
foreach($data['notifications']['type'][0] as $item) {
echo $item['item']['message'];
}
notifications is an array, so you can't hash into it with 'type' like you are trying to do. You should iterate through $data['notifications'] until you find an object with a "type" property of "message". Then dig into that object's "item" and get its "message". For more details about the notifications field in a response, see https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/responses/notifications.
In the sample JSON you provided, to directly access the content you want, you could use $data['notifications'][1]['item']['message']. The 1 may change depending on what API version you're passing in, but should be relatively stable as long as you keep using the same version.