CODEWITHSUNDEEP
facebookfacebook-graph-api
soum
soum

Reputation: 1159

not able to get album images from a public album in facebook

I am trying to return all images from a public album and getting this error. 

{
   "error": {
      "message": "Unsupported get request. Object with ID 'TestAlbumOne' does not exist, cannot be loaded due to missing permissions, or does not support this operation. Please read the Graph API documentation at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api",
      "type": "GraphMethodException",
      "code": 100,
      "fbtrace_id": "Ed/iDn/aAVd"
   }
}

Which makes no sense since the album does exist and its set to be public. The documentation is also a bit vague since it doesn't really mention anything about the access token in the request url which I did find after some research. Am I missing something here?

request url: https://graph.facebook.com/v2.8/TestAlbumOne/photos?access_token={'my access token'}

And thats what I see on the facebook album, which does say its a public album enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 38

Answers (1)

andyrandy
andyrandy

Reputation: 73984

It looks like you are trying to get the public album of a user account, which is impossible without authorizing that specific user with the user_photos permission. Just because stuff is public on facebook.com does not mean you can (or are allowed to) grab it with the API.

Authorize the user with user_photos and use the User Token.

About Tokens in general:

About user authorization:

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions