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Get the Photos for a User

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Demonstrates how to get the photos that the user has uploaded.

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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# 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
oauth2 = chilkat2.OAuth2()
oauth2.AccessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"

rest = chilkat2.Rest()

# Connect to Facebook.
success = rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,True,True)
if (success == False):
    print(rest.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
rest.SetAuthOAuth2(oauth2)

# Indicate that we only want the photos the user has personally uploaded.
rest.AddQueryParam("type","uploaded")

# We could limit the number of photos by setting a limit.
rest.AddQueryParam("limit","5")

# Gets the 1st page of photos. (Not the actual image data, but the information about each photo.)
# See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/photos/ for more information.
responseJson = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/photos")
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess == False):
    print(rest.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

json = chilkat2.JsonObject()
json.EmitCompact = False
json.Load(responseJson)
print(json.Emit())

# A sample JSON response is shown below.  
# This is the code to parse the JSON response.

dtime = chilkat2.CkDateTime()
bLocalTime = True

dt = chilkat2.DtObj()
i = 0
numItems = json.SizeOfArray("data")
while i < numItems :
    json.I = i
    print("--- " + str(i))
    name = json.StringOf("data[i].name")
    if (json.LastMethodSuccess == True):
        print("name: " + name)

    print("id: " + json.StringOf("data[i].id"))

    # We can load the created_time into a CkDateTime...
    dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("data[i].created_time"))
    dtime.ToDtObj(bLocalTime,dt)

    print(str(dt.Month) + "/" + str(dt.Day) + "/" + str(dt.Year) + "  " + str(dt.Hour)\
         + ":" + str(dt.Minute))
    i = i + 1

# We can get the paging information as follows:
print("URL for next page: " + json.StringOf("paging.next"))
print("before cursor: " + json.StringOf("paging.cursors.before"))
print("after cursor: " + json.StringOf("paging.cursors.after"))

# This is a sample JSON response:
# { 
#   "data": [
#     {
#       "created_time": "2016-09-29T20:46:18+0000",
#       "name": "Ignore my posts -- I'm doing some testing for Facebook related programming...",
#       "id": "10210199026347451"
#     },
#     { 
#       "created_time": "2016-09-19T02:00:42+0000",
#       "id": "10210091531240138"
#     },
#     { 
#       "created_time": "2016-09-19T02:00:42+0000",
#       "id": "10210091520620125"
#     },
#     { 
#       "created_time": "2016-09-19T01:59:46+0000",
#       "name": "I would've went for a swim had it not been for the sign",
#       "id": "10210091522299917"
#     },
#     { 
#       "created_time": "2016-09-12T00:37:35+0000",
#       "id": "10210023316834798"
#     }
#   ],
#   "paging": { 
#     "cursors": { 
#       "before": "MTAyMTAxOTkwMjYzNDc0NTEZD",
#       "after": "MTAyMTAwMjMzMTU4MzQ3OTgZD"
#     },
#     "next": "https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/v2.7\/10224048320139890\/photos?type=uploaded&limit=5&after=MTAyMTAwMjMzMTU4MzQ3OTgZD"
#   }
# }
#