Question

net but wanted to try to do this code in ASP.net instead of my normal classic ASP.

I have been trying to find code examples that would show me how to parse out the name & id in a returned JSON from a facebook API Graph call. The JSON return looks like this from Facebook:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "name": "David xxxxxx", 
      "id": "05121212", 
      "administrator": true
    }, 
    {
      "name": "Billy xxxxxxx", 
      "id": "0005128888"
    }
  ], 
  "paging": {
    "next": "https://graph.facebook.com/xxxxx/members?format=json&limit=5000&offset=5000&__after_id=xxxxx"
  }
}

Any examples on how to go about parsing out just the name and id from the JSON response in ASP.net would be awesome!

Thanks,

David

Answer 1

Go for, http://james.newtonking.com/

string response = <your fb data>;   // I am lazy :P
JObject obj = JObject.Parse(response);
JArray data = (JArray)obj["data"];
for(int i=0,int len=data.count; i < len ; i++)
{
 string name = data[i]["name"].ToString();
 string id = data[i]["id"].ToString();
 string administrator = string.Empty;
 if(data[i]["administrator"]!=null)
 {
   string administrator = data[i]["administrator"].ToString();
 }

}

I think, this code is enough to get you going.
Always check for null as api data may or may not have that value.

Edit: I noticed that you wanted a VB code, sorry. But it may help others, so leaving it here. You can convert the code from any C# to VB convertor.