Visual Basic 6.0
Visual Basic 6.0
Facebook User Feed (Read Posts)
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Demonstrates how to read the feed of posts (including status updates) and links published by this person, or by others on this person's profile. This introductory example gets the first few posts.Chilkat Visual Basic 6.0 Downloads
Dim success As Long
success = 0
' 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
Dim oauth2 As New ChilkatOAuth2
oauth2.AccessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"
Dim rest As New ChilkatRest
' Connect to Facebook and send the following GET request:
success = rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,1,1)
If (success = 0) Then
Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
Exit Sub
End If
' Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
success = rest.SetAuthOAuth2(oauth2)
' We could limit the number of posts. The default limit is 25.
success = rest.AddQueryParam("limit","5")
Dim responseJson As String
responseJson = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/feed")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
Exit Sub
End If
Dim json As New ChilkatJsonObject
json.EmitCompact = 0
success = json.Load(responseJson)
' Show the JSON in human-readable format.
Debug.Print json.Emit()
' A sample JSON response is shown below.
' This is the code to parse the JSON response.
Dim dtime As New CkDateTime
Dim bLocalTime As Long
bLocalTime = 1
Dim dt As New DtObj
Dim i As Long
i = 0
Dim numItems As Long
numItems = json.SizeOfArray("data")
Do While i < numItems
json.I = i
Debug.Print "--- " & i
Dim message As String
message = json.StringOf("data[i].message")
If (json.LastMethodSuccess = 1) Then
Debug.Print "message: " & message
End If
Dim story As String
story = json.StringOf("data[i].story")
If (json.LastMethodSuccess = 1) Then
Debug.Print "story: " & story
End If
Debug.Print "id: " & json.StringOf("data[i].id")
' We can load the created_time into a CkDateTime...
success = dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("data[i].created_time"))
dtime.ToDtObj bLocalTime,dt
Debug.Print dt.Month & "/" & dt.Day & "/" & dt.Year & " " & dt.Hour & ":" & dt.Minute
i = i + 1
Loop
' Finally, there are two paging URLs at the very bottom. Those can be accessed as shown:
Dim prevUrl As String
prevUrl = json.StringOf("paging.previous")
Debug.Print "URL for previous page: " & prevUrl
Dim nextUrl As String
nextUrl = json.StringOf("paging.next")
Debug.Print "URL for next page: " & nextUrl
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
' This is a sample JSON response..
' {
' "data": [
' {
' "message": "This is the first post.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-28T14:36:45+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000001"
' },
' {
' "message": "This is the 2nd post.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-27T03:26:12+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000002"
' },
' {
' "story": "John Doe shared Mary's post.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-26T15:45:10+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000003"
' },
' {
' "message": "https:\/\/www.somewebsite.org\/?ID=8158",
' "created_time": "2016-09-26T02:29:20+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000004"
' },
' {
' "message": "http:\/\/blog.somebody.com\/post\/123",
' "created_time": "2016-09-26T02:02:56+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000005"
' },
' {
' "story": "John Doe shared Bill's photo.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-25T15:32:09+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000006"
' },
' {
' "message": "Check this out...",
' "story": "John Doe shared NPR Music's video.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-25T14:54:52+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000007"
' },
' {
' "message": "Yet another post...",
' "created_time": "2016-09-24T17:21:30+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000008"
' },
' {
' "message": "http:\/\/www.somewhere.com\/blahblahblah\/",
' "created_time": "2016-09-23T22:20:29+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000009"
' },
' {
' "message": "At Lincoln marsh ...",
' "story": "John Doe added 2 new photos.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-19T02:00:43+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000010"
' },
' {
' "message": "I would've went for a swim had it not been for the sign",
' "created_time": "2016-09-19T01:59:47+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000011"
' },
' {
' "story": "John Doe shared Steve's video.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-17T22:00:02+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000012"
' },
' {
' "message": "Another sample message...",
' "story": "John Doe shared XYZ's post.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-17T14:13:16+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000013"
' },
' {
' "message": "Hello World!",
' "created_time": "2016-09-16T23:17:13+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000014"
' },
' {
' "message": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xyz",
' "created_time": "2016-09-15T04:13:02+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000015"
' },
' {
' "story": "John Doe shared Emily's photo.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-14T16:37:10+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000016"
' },
' {
' "story": "John Doe shared Vincent's photo.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-14T14:03:42+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000017"
' },
' {
' "message": "https:\/\/www.chilkatsoft.com\/",
' "created_time": "2016-09-14T02:29:37+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000018"
' },
' {
' "message": "So cool! Marcus jamming with this 16 year old kid...",
' "created_time": "2016-09-13T17:04:53+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000019"
' },
' {
' "message": "Wow!",
' "story": "John Doe shared Somebody's post.",
' "created_time": "2016-09-13T14:11:18+0000",
' "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000020"
' }
' ],
' "paging": {
' "previous": "https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/v2.7\/12345678901234567\/feed?since=1475073405&limit=25&__paging_token=enc_abcT9x9GFabcTxvnyXZC0xnHZCrH2h4yjNZCZAUabcZAI9TyZBibwat6wCYiSFTxR4nSDZAkzaN8vIaEPmqrabc1QTIbGac&__previous=1",
' "next": "https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/v2.7\/12345678901234567\/feed?limit=25&until=1473426350&__paging_token=enc_AdDFWabcYtV5ob6lFO8LZAMhm7LKCxntawqqabcZALyC8WZB8Th2lON7HGuJRabzW6Ivfm93LORIw9NNBuHpob7abcjh"
' }
' }
'