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Victor
Victor

Reputation: 148

How to obtain not-friend's public photos

I am trying to get user public photos (friend's friend). When i just browse facebook I see them, but I can't access them via API. Neither 

SELECT created, link, caption, images, like_info FROM photo WHERE owner IN (SELECT uid FROM user WHERE username = "...") OR object_id IN (SELECT uid FROM user WHERE username = "kaja.szuminska") OR object_id IN (SELECT object_id FROM photo_tag WHERE subject IN (SELECT uid FROM user WHERE username = "...")) ORDER BY like_info DESC LIMIT 0, 100

nor

.../albums

nor

.../photos

nor

.../photos/uploaded

works.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 435

Answers (1)

Niraj Shah
Niraj Shah

Reputation: 15457

To access photos (public or not) you need permission. So it's only possible to access your photos (using user_photos permission) or friends' photos (using friends_photos permission).

If you want to scrape public photos, you can only do so by checking the user's public feed. I.e. making an API call to: https://graph.facebook.com/{user_id}/feed and then filter through the entries to see if any photos were posted.

Upvotes: 1

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