Question

Is there a way to get the post_id for the resulting post on the wall / feed (e.g. 987654321_123456789) after publishing a photo to /photos instead of the photo object_id (e.g. 334455667788)?

When we call the https://graph.facebook.com/page_id/photos recource to publish a photo, the returned ID (JSON response) will be the object_id of the photo

The only way I could think of was to get the entire feed since posting the picture (in case someone else made a post in between) and then getting the post_id for the post that has the object_id == photo_id. That seems a little crude though..

“A way” means it could be FQL (fql=Select…), a search query(search?q=…) or any basic graph resource that I haven’t thought of that will provide the exact information.

(We’re using Jersey and Jackson to interact with the Facebook Graph API.)

Thanks!

Answer 1

Im setting his as “answered” as there really seems to be no other way than the described one:

The only way I could think of was to get the entire feed since posting the picture (in case someone else made a post in between) and then getting the post_id for the post that has the object_id == photo_id. That seems a little crude though..