(PowerShell) Get the Photos for a User

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

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

# 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 -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    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 -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

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

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

$dtime = New-Object Chilkat.CkDateTime
$bLocalTime = $true

$i = 0
$numItems = $json.SizeOfArray("data")
while ($i -lt $numItems) {
    $json.I = $i
    $("--- " + $i)
    $name = $json.StringOf("data[i].name")
    if ($json.LastMethodSuccess -eq $true) {
        $("name: " + $name)
    }

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

    # We can load the created_time into a CkDateTime...
    $dtime.SetFromTimestamp($json.StringOf("data[i].created_time"))
    $dt = $dtime.GetDtObj($bLocalTime)
    $([string]$dt.Month + "/" + $dt.Day + "/" + $dt.Year + "  " + $dt.Hour + ":" + $dt.Minute)

    $i = $i + 1
}

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