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JavaScript Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Get the Photos for a User

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Demonstrates how to get the photos that the user has uploaded.
Note
This example is intended for running within a Chilkat.Js embedded JavaScript engine. All Chilkat JavaScript examples require Chilkat v11.4.0 or greater.
JavaScript
var 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
var oauth2 = new CkOAuth2();
oauth2.AccessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN";

var rest = new CkRest();

//  Connect to Facebook.
success = rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,true,true);
if (success == false) {
    console.log(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  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.
var responseJson = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/photos");
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    console.log(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

var json = new CkJsonObject();
json.EmitCompact = false;
json.Load(responseJson);
console.log(json.Emit());

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

var dtime = new CkDateTime();
var bLocalTime = true;

var dt = new CkDtObj();
var i = 0;
var numItems = json.SizeOfArray("data");
while (i < numItems) {
    json.I = i;
    console.log("--- " + i);
    var name = json.StringOf("data[i].name");
    if (json.LastMethodSuccess == true) {
        console.log("name: " + name);
    }

    console.log("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);

    console.log(dt.Month + "/" + dt.Day + "/" + dt.Year + "  " + dt.Hour + ":" + dt.Minute);
    i = i+1;
}

//  We can get the paging information as follows:
console.log("URL for next page: " + json.StringOf("paging.next"));
console.log("before cursor: " + json.StringOf("paging.cursors.before"));
console.log("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"
//    }
//  }
//