VBScript

Paging User Photos with Cursor

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Demonstrates how to iterate over the pages of user photos using a cursor. VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

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
set oauth2 = CreateObject("Chilkat.OAuth2")
oauth2.AccessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"

set rest = CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect to Facebook.
success = rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,1,1)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

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

' Indicate that we only want the photos the user has personally uploaded.
success = rest.AddQueryParam("type","uploaded")

' We could limit the number of photos per page using the "limit" field.
success = rest.AddQueryParam("limit","20")

' Get 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 <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

set json = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
json.EmitCompact = 0
success = json.Load(responseJson)
outFile.WriteLine(json.Emit())

' 
' See Parsing the Facebook User Photos for code showing how to parse the JSON photos content.
' 

' Get the "after" cursor.
afterCursor = json.StringOf("paging.cursors.after")
Do While json.LastMethodSuccess = 1

    outFile.WriteLine("after cursor: " & afterCursor)

    ' Prepare for getting the next page of photos.
    ' 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.
    success = rest.ClearAllQueryParams()
    success = rest.AddQueryParam("type","uploaded")
    success = rest.AddQueryParam("limit","20")
    success = rest.AddQueryParam("after",afterCursor)

    responseJson = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/photos")
    If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    End If

    success = json.Load(responseJson)
    ' See Parsing the Facebook User Photos for code showing how to parse the JSON photos content.

    outFile.WriteLine(json.Emit())

    ' Get the cursor for the next page.
    afterCursor = json.StringOf("paging.cursors.after")
Loop

outFile.WriteLine("No more pages of photos.")

outFile.Close