Question

I’ve read the documentation here.

I have an action, “cook”, which is applied to an object “recipe”. I want to allow the user to post a photo of their cooking when they perform the action.

I would like to have the photo hosted on Facebook. Is there any way to post the actual image data as part of the request, rather than posting a URL to the user generated photo?

The docs say

The photo used will NOT be taken from the object’s meta data og:image tag. Instead, it is passed with the POST

and

The photo will be uploaded and placed in a Facebook photo album titled after the “App Display Name” for that app

but they also mention that the image[0][url] property is required.

The context is an iOS app: the user takes a photo on the device and wishes to post it to Facebook. To get a URL to the image, I’d obviously have to do an upload to some web hosting somewhere as a separate step, which would be harder to code and would require some hosting.

Answer 1

but they also mention that the image[0][url] property is required.

You’ll have to upload the photo first to some place where it’s available over the web via HTTP, and then give that URL while posting your action.