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Facebook Download all Photos to Local Files
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Demonstrates how to download all of one's Facebook photos to a local filesystem directory. This sample code keeps a local cache to avoid re-downloading the same photos twice. The program can be run again after a time, and it will download only photos that haven't yet been downloaded.Chilkat PowerShell Downloads
Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"
$success = $false
# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
# This example will use a local disk cache to avoid re-fetching the same
# photo id after it's been fetched once.
$fbCache = New-Object Chilkat.Cache
# The cache will use 1 level of 256 sub-directories.
$fbCache.Level = 1
# Use a directory path that makes sense on your operating system..
$fbCache.AddRoot("C:/fbCache")
# This example assumes a previously obtained an access token
$oauth2 = New-Object Chilkat.OAuth2
$oauth2.AccessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"
$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest
# Connect to Facebook.
$success = $rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,$true,$true)
if ($success -ne $true) {
$($rest.LastErrorText)
exit
}
# Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
$rest.SetAuthOAuth2($oauth2)
# There are two choices:
# We can choose to download the photos the person is tagged in or has uploaded
# by setting type to "tagged" or "uploaded".
$rest.AddQueryParam("type","uploaded")
# To download all photos, we begin with an outer loop that iterates over
# the list of photo nodes in pages. Each page returned contains a list of
# photo node ids. Each photo node id must be retrieved to get the download URL(s)
# of the actual image.
# I don't know the max limit for the number of records that can be downloaded at once.
$rest.AddQueryParam("limit","100")
# Get the 1st page of photos ids.
# 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 -ne $true) {
$($rest.LastErrorText)
exit
}
$photoJson = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$saPhotoUrls = New-Object Chilkat.StringArray
$sbPhotoIdPath = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.EmitCompact = $false
$json.Load($responseJson)
# Get the "after" cursor.
$afterCursor = $json.StringOf("paging.cursors.after")
while ($json.LastMethodSuccess -eq $true) {
$("-------------------")
$("afterCursor = " + $afterCursor)
# For each photo id in this page...
$i = 0
$numItems = $json.SizeOfArray("data")
while ($i -lt $numItems) {
$json.I = $i
$photoId = $json.StringOf("data[i].id")
$("photoId = " + $photoId)
# We need to fetch the JSON for this photo. Check to see if it's in the local disk cache,
# and if not, then get it from Facebook.
$photoJsonStr = $fbCache.FetchText($photoId)
if ($fbCache.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
# It's not locally available, so get it from Facebook..
$sbPhotoIdPath.Clear()
$sbPhotoIdPath.Append("/v2.7/")
$sbPhotoIdPath.Append($photoId)
$rest.ClearAllQueryParams()
$rest.AddQueryParam("fields","id,album,images")
$("Fetching photo node from Facebook...")
# This REST request will continue using the existing connection.
# If the connection was closed, it will automatically reconnect to send the request.
$photoJsonStr = $rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET",$sbPhotoIdPath.GetAsString())
if ($rest.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
$($rest.LastErrorText)
exit
}
# Add the photo JSON to the local cache.
$fbCache.SaveTextNoExpire($photoId,"",$photoJsonStr)
}
# Parse the photo JSON and add the main photo download URL to saPhotoUrls
# There may be multiple URLs in the images array, but the 1st one is the largest and main photo URL.
# The others are smaller sizes of the same photo.
$photoJson.Load($photoJsonStr)
$imageUrl = $photoJson.StringOf("images[0].source")
if ($photoJson.LastMethodSuccess -eq $true) {
# Actually, we'll add a small JSON document that contains both the image ID and the URL.
$imgUrlJson = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$imgUrlJson.AppendString("id",$photoId)
$imgUrlJson.AppendString("url",$imageUrl)
$saPhotoUrls.Append($imgUrlJson.Emit())
$("imageUrl = " + $imageUrl)
}
$i = $i + 1
}
# Prepare for getting the next page of photos ids.
# We can continue using the same REST object.
# If already connected, we'll continue using the existing connection.
# Otherwise, a new connection will automatically be made if needed.
$rest.ClearAllQueryParams()
$rest.AddQueryParam("type","uploaded")
$rest.AddQueryParam("limit","20")
$rest.AddQueryParam("after",$afterCursor)
# Get the next page of photo ids.
$responseJson = $rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/photos")
if ($rest.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
$($rest.LastErrorText)
exit
}
$json.Load($responseJson)
$afterCursor = $json.StringOf("paging.cursors.after")
}
$("No more pages of photos.")
# Now iterate over the photo URLs and download each to a file.
# We can use Chilkat HTTP. No Facebook authorization (access token) is required to download
# the photo once the URL is known.
$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http
# We'll cache the image data so that if run again, we don't re-download the same image again.
$numUrls = $saPhotoUrls.Count
$i = 0
$urlJson = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$fac = New-Object Chilkat.FileAccess
while ($i -lt $numUrls) {
$urlJson.Load($saPhotoUrls.GetString($i))
$photoId = $urlJson.StringOf("id")
$imageUrl = $urlJson.StringOf("url")
# Check the local cache for the image data.
# Only download and save if not already cached.
$imageBytes = $fbCache.FetchFromCache($imageUrl)
if ($fbCache.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
# This photo needs to be downloaded.
$sbImageUrl = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbImageUrl.Append($imageUrl)
# Let's form a filename..
$extension = ".jpg"
if ($sbImageUrl.Contains(".gif",$false) -eq $true) {
$extension = ".gif"
}
if ($sbImageUrl.Contains(".png",$false) -eq $true) {
$extension = ".png"
}
if ($sbImageUrl.Contains(".tiff",$false) -eq $true) {
$extension = ".tiff"
}
if ($sbImageUrl.Contains(".bmp",$false) -eq $true) {
$extension = ".bmp"
}
$sbLocalFilePath = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbLocalFilePath.Append("C:/Photos/facebook/uploaded/")
$sbLocalFilePath.Append($photoId)
$sbLocalFilePath.Append($extension)
$imageBytes = $http.QuickGet($imageUrl)
if ($http.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
$($http.LastErrorText)
exit
}
# We've downloaded the photo image bytes into memory.
# Save it to the cache AND save it to the output file.
$fbCache.SaveToCacheNoExpire($imageUrl,"",$imageBytes)
$fac.WriteEntireFile($sbLocalFilePath.GetAsString(),$imageBytes)
$("Downloaded to " + $sbLocalFilePath.GetAsString())
}
$i = $i + 1
}
$("Finished downloading all Facebook photos!")