Video Upload Just Added: How to publish a video to Facebook

First make sure that you are authorized to publish to the user's feed with the **publish_stream** permission.

Then use the api commands to send the video to the server.

Dim FB As New SessionInfo("[access_token]")

Dim Posts = New Functions.Posts(FB)

Dim img As String = "[Local video Location]"

Dim F = New IO.FileStream(img, IO.FileMode.Open, IO.FileAccess.Read)

Dim B(F.Length - 1) As Byte

F.Read(B, 0, B.Length)

F.Close()

Dim VideoID = Posts.PublishVideo("[Album ID]", "[title]", "[description]", B)   

  

Tagging users in videos is not yet supported by Facebook.

How to publish a photo to Facebook

First make sure that you are authorized to publish to the user's feed with the **publish_stream** permission.

Then use the api commands to send the photo to the server.

Dim FB As New SessionInfo("[access_token]")

Dim Posts = New Functions.Posts(FB)

Dim img As String = "[Local picture Location]"

Dim F = New IO.FileStream(img, IO.FileMode.Open, IO.FileAccess.Read)

Dim B(F.Length - 1) As Byte

F.Read(B, 0, B.Length)

F.Close()

Dim PhotoID = Posts.PublishPhoto("[Album ID]", "[caption]", true, B, [Optional Tags if any])   

  

Tagging users is similar, just pass in a tag list when you call PublishPhoto 

Dim TL As New List(Of Tag)

Dim T As New Tag

T.id = "[userID]"

TL.Add(T)

Dim PhotoID = Posts.PublishPhoto("["me" or Album ID]", "[caption]", true, B, TL)

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Sample Code 

Making Requests

Imports Branches.FBAPI

...

Dim SI As New SessionInfo("[access_token]"))

Dim Req New Functions.Requests(SI)

Dim User = Req.GetUserInfo("[optional user ID]")

Response.Write(U.name)

Making Posts

Imports Branches.FBAPI

...

Dim SI As New SessionInfo("[access_token]"))

Dim Posts = New Functions.Posts(SI)

Dim P As New Post

P.name = "name of post"

P.message = "message"

P.link = "www.cnn.com"

P.caption = "my caption"

Posts.PublishCreate("[object ID to post to]", P)

Dim PostID = P.id

Authenticating Users

Imports Branches.FBAPI

...

Dim SI As New SessionInfo("[application_id]","applicaiton_secret")

'Redirects user to facebooks

SI.AuthenticateUser("http://[my url]", New SessionInfo.PermissionsEnum(){SessionInfo.PermissionsEnum.email, SessionInfo.PermissionsEnum.read_stream}))

'Called when the user is returned to your page

Dim FSR = SI.ReadFacebooAuthResponse

Response.Write(FSR.Access_Token)

Response.Write(FSR.UserID)