Feb062012

Is it possible for an iOS app to pull photos from Facebook?

Marinakis Giorgos asks:

I am building an application about photography. It has galleries that are updated every day. It would be helpful if I could pull the galleries from the events on a Facebook fan page. Is there a way to do that?


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  • Karkala Nayak February 7, 2012

    Hello 
    Martinakis Giorgos,
    I will provide some links that may help you find your answer.
    Also there was a similar question asked on MUO about “How to download the facebook photos from fan page?” check that link then go to other links that I provide that will help you download..O.K

    MUO question link::
    http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/download-entire-albums-facebook-fan-page/

    OTHER LINKs THAT HELP YOU DOWNLOAD THE PHOTOS…
    http://www.picknzip.com/
    http://facebook2zip.com/index.php

    ALSO CHECK THIS SITE TO GET MORE SITES that help DOWNLOAD
    http://www.technolism.com/download-entire-facebook-photo-albums.html

    I hope this helped::: :)

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  • Marinakis Giorgos February 7, 2012

    Hi Karkala Nayak

    Thank you
    for your replay,

    I probably didn’t
    make me clear inaf. What I wont to do is to show all my photos galleries from my
    facebook page in my ios application an have look ant feel like native
     

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    • Anonymous February 7, 2012

      are you looking for somekind of photo manager for facebook?

      Facebook for iPhone 3.0
      http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=122788341354

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    • Karkala Nayak February 7, 2012

      Brother, Looks like you are the only one, on the internet world who has thought of making an app like that :) Now i get to know what you exactly wanted.

      Now for the application to get access to the Facebook page and to the photos you need the API that helps you integrates with the app to communicate with Facebook….
      Check out these Tutorials::::

      This will show you how to read the photo object from Facebook
      http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/photo/ 

      This one will teach you how to access the property of the object
      http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ 

      This one here is the IOS tutorial for Facebook app
      http://developers.facebook.com/docs/mobile/ios/build/ 

      Read these and may these help you complete your app project and get success.. :)

      Rest you have to write the code your self  :| )

      LAST [Option Idea];
      I got an idea, only try it if it works…
      Why don’t you integrate another IOS app like photograbber
      (here is the link to it::http://code.google.com/p/photograbber/ )
      This app will download your photos and now you just need the code that will show you the pictures…,..
      I DON’T KNOW IF THAT WILL EVER WORK BUT GIVE IT A TRY… IF YOU THINK YOU CAN THEN TRY IT…
      [just thoughts].

      ALSO CHECK

      There was this website I reached which discussed and provided the HTML code that displayed once Facebook photos on to their website and I thought maybe by if you read the code you may get any idea on how to write the code for showing Facebook photos in your app…here is the website link…

      http://www.codeofaninja.com/2011/06/display-facebook-photos-to-your-website.html

      I hope this helped…. :)

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  • Marinakis Giorgos February 7, 2012

    Not exactly
    what I m looking for

    I wont to show
    only the galleries from my facebook page in my own ios application an the
    galleries looks like my app not like facebook
     

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