Post Photo on Facebook Wall

[jwt8070]

Hi,

I would like to add a feature to my app to allow users to post a photo plus some comments (text) to his facebook wall. The user can take a photo using phone camara or select a photo from album. But my developer said this is not possible. He said in order for the photo to be posted on FB wall, the photo must first exist on a website so he can pass the URL of the photo to facebook. He said facebook API does not accept images. Is this true? This sounds a bit strange to me.

[smithdale87]

Here's another link that agrees with your developer. Facebook Connect for iPhone: How to upload an image (UIImage) to user's wall without having to use json-embedded link or photos.upload? - Stack Overflow

[7twenty7]

Originally Posted by jwt8070

Hi,

I would like to add a feature to my app to allow users to post a photo plus some comments (text) to his facebook wall. The user can take a photo using phone camara or select a photo from album. But my developer said this is not possible. He said in order for the photo to be posted on FB wall, the photo must first exist on a website so he can pass the URL of the photo to facebook. He said facebook API does not accept images. Is this true? This sounds a bit strange to me.

I recently went through this and couldn't quite work it out.

The facebook API *does* let you upload photos to a photo album. Facebook will then automatically make a wall post for that upload (just notifying that something was uploaded to the album)...but it seems to just do one wall post every day or so, not for every upload.

However, you can get the link to the photo after you've uploaded it, so I was trying to then create a regular wall post with the link to the photo (now on fb).

It *almost* worked, but not quite. The wall post was there, with whatever caption I wanted, and the link was there. But the thumbnail of the photo was broken...it just wasn't there. I tried a few different ways but just couldn't quite get it to work right.

[sneaky]

This is a pain alright. I've got it working though. It's a 2 step process of first uploading the photo and then making a wall post. I was greatly helped by: How To Post to a User’s Wall, Upload Photos, and Add a Like Button from your iPhone App | Ray Wenderlich