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Asked: 2026-05-30T14:51:34+00:00

Please help me to make a correct request to Facebook api. Now i’ve got:

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Please help me to make a correct request to Facebook api. Now i’ve got:

https://graph.facebook.com/me/albums?fields=photos

As the result I get very big Json with a lot of unnecessary info. I tried to do something like this:

https://graph.facebook.com/me/albums?fields=photos?fields=source,name,id

or like this:

https://graph.facebook.com/me/albums?fields=photos&fields=source,name,id

But graph api explorer, returned the same big response, or i caught an error.
Any ideas how to do more compact response with only necessary info?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You may only use fields with properties that exists for objects.

    By issuing GET request to next URL you’ll get list of albums ids only:

    https://graph.facebook.com/me/albums?fields=id&access_token=...

    Same can be achieved by running next FQL query on album table:

    SELECT aid FROM album WHERE owner=me()

    Actually albums connection of user doesn’t really contain list of photo objects but album (which have photos connection). So to get photos owned by user you’ll need iterate over all of his object and getting photos for every album. Again you may use fields argument to limit resulting data. This can be done faster if using batch requests.

    Or With FQL it may be done like this (two tables photo and album involved):

    SELECT pid FROM photo WHERE aid IN (SELECT aid FROM album WHERE owner=me())
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