VB.NET

Iterate Pages in Feed

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Demonstrates how to read the next page in the user's Facebook feed, and iterates through all of the pages in the Facebook feed. VB.NET

Dim success As Boolean = 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
Dim oauth2 As New Chilkat.OAuth2
oauth2.AccessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest

' Connect to Facebook and send the following GET request:
success = rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,True,True)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
rest.SetAuthOAuth2(oauth2)

' Gets the 1st page in the user's feed.
Dim responseJson As String = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/feed")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject
json.EmitCompact = False
json.Load(responseJson)

' 
' See Parsing the Facebook User Feed for code showing how to parse the JSON feed content.
' 

Dim nextUrl As New Chilkat.Url

' Get the URL for the next page in the feed.
Dim nextUrlStr As String = json.StringOf("paging.next")
While json.LastMethodSuccess = True

    Debug.WriteLine("Next page URL: " & nextUrlStr)

    nextUrl.ParseUrl(nextUrlStr)

    ' Prepare for getting the next page in the feed.
    ' 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.AddQueryParams(nextUrl.Query)

    responseJson = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/feed")
    If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
        Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
        Exit Sub
    End If


    json.Load(responseJson)
    ' See Parsing the Facebook User Feed for code showing how to parse the JSON feed content.

    ' Get the URL for the next page.
    nextUrlStr = json.StringOf("paging.next")
End While

Debug.WriteLine("No more pages in the feed.")