Im kind of new in facebook development, so be patient with me :) I'm creating an app that manage the photo albums user. One of the features i'm developing needs to access the friends photos. I mean, the photos that my app user can see of his friends. How can retrieve thats albums and photos information? I have user_photos and friends_photos permission. Any sugestion?
Thanks in advance!!
Sorry for my lame english. Is not my native language.
Sebastian
You need to make an API call, for this you can use Facebook Graph API. Look at the following API for albums
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/album/
This is for generic purpose, however you need to first pull all the friends from here
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/FriendList/
To fetch the albums of a friend you also need to set permissions
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/permissions/
check:friends_photos
You can simply fetch the album like this
https://graph.facebook.com/{userId}/albums?accessToken=something
PS. you need to pull albums of friends one by one.
References to get you started
Start with the Graph API:
developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
Read up on a few more things:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/
Use Graph explorer to test things out:
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
Your fist app
Now in order to do anything on facebook you need to create an application. You will get an app token when you do this. Something like: 288229791195831
Your users need to Like your application in order to use it. Then you can use it to post photos, wall messages etc.
This is the URL your application could use to log in a user:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=288229791195831&redirect_uri=http://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html&type=user_agent&display=popup&scope=publish_stream,user_photos,read_stream,email
Replace your client_id with the app id you get from facebook. Scope shows the permissions this app is requesting.
Good luck!
