Ok, so here was my first question: How do I allow visitors on my site to share my photos on their facebook news feed?

After implementing it I realized what I really want is to upload the image as a photo to their photo album.

How would I got about getting an image on my site, to upload to their photo album, when they click on a facebook icon next to the image?

Any thoughts at all are appreciated.

Thank You.

Ok, so here was my first question: How do I allow visitors on my site to share my photos on their facebook news feed?

After implementing it I realized what I really want is to upload the image as a photo to their photo album.

How would I got about getting an image on my site, to upload to their photo album, when they click on a facebook icon next to the image?

Any thoughts at all are appreciated.

Thank You.

• facebook
• api
• javascript
• html
• asp

2 Answers 2

Register your application at Facebook (create a Facebook app).

Authenticate the user with Facebook, at the same time user approves your app access.

Use Facebook publishing api to upload image (follow link, look for Publishing title).

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

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

Here's an example using the Branches FB API:

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)