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Classic ASP Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Read a Single Facebook Post

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Demonstrates how to read the contents of a single Facebook post. A post is an individual entry in a profile's feed. The profile could be a user, page, app, or group.

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success = 0

'  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

'  This example assumes a previously obtained an access token
set oauth2 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.OAuth2")
oauth2.AccessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

'  Connect to Facebook...
success = rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,1,1)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
success = rest.SetAuthOAuth2(oauth2)

'  This example assumes a post id was already retrieved.
'  For example, it could've been retrieved by reading the user's feed:
'  See Parsing the Facebook User Feed for code showing how to parse the JSON feed content.

postId = "10224048320139890_10210156138515282"

set sbPath = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbPath.Append("/v2.7/")
success = sbPath.Append(postId)

'  Select the fields we want.
'  This example will select almost all the possible fields.
'  See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/post/
success = rest.AddQueryParam("fields","id,message,created_time,caption,description,from,link,name,object_id,picture,place,privacy,properties,shares,source,status_type,story,targeting,to,type,updated_time,with_tags")

responseJson = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET",sbPath.GetAsString())
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
json.EmitCompact = 0
success = json.Load(responseJson)

'  Show the JSON in human-readable format.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( json.Emit()) & "</pre>"

'  A sample JSON response is shown here.  
'  { 
'    "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000004",
'    "message": "Ignore my posts -- I'm doing some testing for Facebook related programming...",
'    "created_time": "2016-09-29T20:46:18+0000",
'    "from": { 
'      "name": "John Doe",
'      "id": "12345678901234567"
'    },
'    "link": "https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10210199026247451&set=a.1237223526054.2038240.1094202869&type=3",
'    "object_id": "10210139026347451",
'    "picture": "https:\/\/scontent.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/14462791_10210199026647451_7830642117574407060_n.jpg?oh=a7f9ed10ce9cd81a82adeb541c60e2e2&oe=58ABB195",
'    "privacy": { 
'      "allow": "",
'      "deny": "",
'      "description": "Public",
'      "friends": "",
'      "value": "EVERYONE"
'    },
'    "status_type": "added_photos",
'    "type": "photo",
'    "updated_time": "2016-09-29T20:46:18+0000"
'  }

'  This is the code to parse some fields in the JSON response.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "type: " & json.StringOf("type")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "message: " & json.StringOf("message")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "id: " & json.StringOf("id")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "link: " & json.StringOf("link")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "privacy descripton: " & json.StringOf("privacy.description")) & "</pre>"

set dtime = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.CkDateTime")
bLocalTime = 1
success = dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("created_time"))
set dt = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.DtObj")
dtime.ToDtObj bLocalTime,dt

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( dt.Month & "/" & dt.Day & "/" & dt.Year & "  " & dt.Hour & ":" & dt.Minute) & "</pre>"

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