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Facebook Graph API calls for facebook integration

FACEBOOK the world of it's own,But it sounds good if you get its power in your site,Photos,Status,Like,Commenting,Facebook albums, In short you can simply go and create your app which does everything for you without even going on to facebook

Facebook has its very superb API which you can find on developer.facebook.com, You can download full binaries to be coded in C# but i will skip that and put that on readers to explore as and when you have time,Lets talk something short and sweet

Facebook Page
Here i am only going to talk about the get API calls,That means only things which only get the data from any public page,Say you have a page on facebook for your business and you want the data from your facebook page to be shown onto your website,You can use these calls,Fast,Easy and Fun,Lets get started

Say i have a photography page on my facebook or any other page,You can get its photo albums and its photos by following code,Some of the things required to make a call are following

  • Unique Id or name of the facebook page
  • Facebook Graph API url on which you will make a http request and wait for the response
  • Each call are different (i.e photos,albums etc,Depending on your requirement) so proper URL of those calles

The Calls
Lets say i want to get the basic details of my FB page,like it's description,cover photo,profile pic,so following is the url you would be using 

NOTE: Here i am using my photography page to show,You can replace the page name with yours

Get the FACEBOOK page basic info 
https://graph.facebook.com/147326062077207

Try hitting above url into browser and you will get an idea what you would be doing,As it returns well formed JSON string and you will make use of that JSON and display the things
Get the list of photo albums on your page 
https://graph.facebook.com/147326062077207/albums

Get list of photos into specific album

From above url you will get list of albums with their album id,and in below url you will pass that album id to get photos inside it

https://graph.facebook.com/153930304750116/photos
Getting album cover photo to show

From above url you will get list of photos for particular album,and if you see its JSON string,The 'picture' property is thumbnail preview of the cover photo, So you can take that 'picture' property and show that image from FACEBOOK's CDN.

There are many other useful properties and functions with GET and POST request,I will be covering them in next blog post, Enjoy playing with it,And do provide feedback !!!

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