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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. PowerShell

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 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 -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

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

$sbPath = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbPath.Append("/v2.7/")
$sbPath.Append($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/
$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 -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.EmitCompact = $false
$json.Load($responseJson)

#  Show the JSON in human-readable format.
$($json.Emit())

#  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.
$("type: " + $json.StringOf("type"))
$("message: " + $json.StringOf("message"))
$("id: " + $json.StringOf("id"))
$("link: " + $json.StringOf("link"))
$("privacy descripton: " + $json.StringOf("privacy.description"))

$dtime = New-Object Chilkat.CkDateTime
$bLocalTime = $true
$dtime.SetFromTimestamp($json.StringOf("created_time"))
$dt = New-Object Chilkat.DtObj
$dtime.ToDtObj($bLocalTime,$dt)

$([string]$dt.Month + "/" + $dt.Day + "/" + $dt.Year + "  " + $dt.Hour + ":" + $dt.Minute)