Graph API Version

Page Photos

Profile pictures and uploaded pictures for a Facebook Page.

Reading

Retrieve the photos associated to a page.

New Page Experience

This endpoint is supported for New Page Experience.

Feature Permissions

Name	Description
Page Public Content Access	This feature permission may be required.

When using the Page Public Content Access feature, use a system user access token to avoid rate limiting issues.

Requirements

You will need:

A Page access token requested by a person who can perform the MODERATE task on the Page
The pages_read_engagement permission
The pages_show_list permission

If a person is not able to perform the task on the Page, you will need:

The Pages Public Content Access feature

Example

Graph API Explorer

GET /v21.0/{page-id}/photos HTTP/1.1
Host: graph.facebook.com

/* PHP SDK v5.0.0 */
/* make the API call */
try {
  // Returns a `Facebook\FacebookResponse` object
  $response = $fb->get(
    '/{page-id}/photos',
    '{access-token}'
  );
} catch(Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookResponseException $e) {
  echo 'Graph returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
} catch(Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookSDKException $e) {
  echo 'Facebook SDK returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
}
$graphNode = $response->getGraphNode();
/* handle the result */

/* make the API call */
FB.api(
    "/{page-id}/photos",
    function (response) {
      if (response && !response.error) {
        /* handle the result */
      }
    }
);

/* make the API call */
new GraphRequest(
    AccessToken.getCurrentAccessToken(),
    "/{page-id}/photos",
    null,
    HttpMethod.GET,
    new GraphRequest.Callback() {
        public void onCompleted(GraphResponse response) {
            /* handle the result */
        }
    }
).executeAsync();

/* make the API call */
FBSDKGraphRequest *request = [[FBSDKGraphRequest alloc]
                               initWithGraphPath:@"/{page-id}/photos"
                                      parameters:params
                                      HTTPMethod:@"GET"];
[request startWithCompletionHandler:^(FBSDKGraphRequestConnection *connection,
                                      id result,
                                      NSError *error) {
    // Handle the result
}];

curl -X GET -G \
  -d 'access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>' \
  https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/{page-id}/photos

If you want to learn how to use the Graph API, read our Using Graph API guide.

By default reading from the photos edge returns the current profile picture for the Page as well as previous profile pictures. Use the optional type parameter with the value uploaded to get the photos that a Page has uploaded.

GET /{page-id}/photos?type=uploaded

Parameters

Parameter Description

Parameter	Description
`biz_tag_id` int64	business tag id to filter photos
`business_id` numeric string or integer	optional param assist with filters such as recently used
`type` enum{profile, tagged, uploaded}	Default value: `profile` Allows you to query which type of photos to return

biz_tag_id

int64

business tag id to filter photos

business_id

numeric string or integer

optional param assist with filters such as recently used

type

enum{profile, tagged, uploaded}

Default value: profile

Allows you to query which type of photos to return

Fields

Reading from this edge will return a JSON formatted result:

{
    "data": [],
    "paging": {}
}

`data`

A list of Photo nodes.

`paging`

For more details about pagination, see the Graph API guide.

Error Codes

Error	Description
200	Permissions error
100	Invalid parameter
80001	There have been too many calls to this Page account. Wait a bit and try again. For more info, please refer to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/rate-limiting.
190	Invalid OAuth 2.0 Access Token
104	Incorrect signature
2500	Error parsing graph query
283	That action requires the extended permission pages_read_engagement and/or pages_read_user_content and/or pages_manage_ads and/or pages_manage_metadata

Creating

Requirements

A Page access token requested by a person who can perform the CREATE_CONTENT task on the Page
The pages_read_engagement permission
The pages_manage_posts permission
The pages_show_list permission

Photo Specifications

Property	Specification
File type	.jpeg, .bmp, .png, .gif, .tiff
File size	Files can not exceed 4MB. For .png files, we recommend not exceeding 1MB or the image may appear pixelated.

Facebook strips all location metadata before publishing and resizes images to different dimensions to best support rendering in multiple sizes.

Uploading Photos

There are two separate ways of uploading photos to Facebook:

Attach the photo as multipart/form-data. The name of the object doesn't matter, but historically people have used source as the parameter name for the photo. How this works depends on the SDK you happen to be using to do the post.
Use a photo that is already on the internet by publishing using the url parameter:

POST /v21.0/page-id/photos HTTP/1.1
Host: graph.facebook.com

url=image-url

/* PHP SDK v5.0.0 */
/* make the API call */
try {
  // Returns a `Facebook\FacebookResponse` object
  $response = $fb->post(
    '/page-id/photos',
    array (
      'url' => 'image-url',
    ),
    '{access-token}'
  );
} catch(Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookResponseException $e) {
  echo 'Graph returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
} catch(Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookSDKException $e) {
  echo 'Facebook SDK returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
}
$graphNode = $response->getGraphNode();
/* handle the result */

/* make the API call */
FB.api(
    "/page-id/photos",
    "POST",
    {
        "url": "image-url"
    },
    function (response) {
      if (response && !response.error) {
        /* handle the result */
      }
    }
);

Bundle params = new Bundle();
params.putString("url", "image-url");
/* make the API call */
new GraphRequest(
    AccessToken.getCurrentAccessToken(),
    "/page-id/photos",
    params,
    HttpMethod.POST,
    new GraphRequest.Callback() {
        public void onCompleted(GraphResponse response) {
            /* handle the result */
        }
    }
).executeAsync();

NSDictionary *params = @{
  @"url": @"image-url",
};
/* make the API call */
FBSDKGraphRequest *request = [[FBSDKGraphRequest alloc]
                               initWithGraphPath:@"/page-id/photos"
                                      parameters:params
                                      HTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request startWithCompletionHandler:^(FBSDKGraphRequestConnection *connection,
                                      id result,
                                      NSError *error) {
    // Handle the result
}];

Single Photo Page Post

You can upload and publish a single photo in one API request.

curl -i -X POST \
 -d "url=https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png" \
 -d "published=true" \
 -d "access_token=<access_token>" \
 "https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos"

Uploading an unpublished photo

Upload a photo without publishing it to the /{page-id}/photos edge by making a similar call as described in the single photo post section but by adding the argument published=false.

curl -i -X POST \
 -d "url=https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png" \
 -d "published=false" \
 -d "access_token=<access_token>" \
 "https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos"

If the photo is used in a scheduled post, temporary=true must be used.

curl -i -X POST \
 -d "url=https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png" \
 -d "published=false" \
 -d "temporary=true" \
 -d "access_token=<access_token>" \
 "https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos"

Use the Graph API Explorer to get SDK code snippets of the requests.

On successful upload, the Graph API provides a response including the photo ID. After you upload an unpublished photo, Facebook stores it in a temporary upload state, which means it will remain on Facebook servers for about 24 hours. If you do not publish these photos within 24 hours, we delete them.

Publishing a multi-photo post with uploaded photos

After you successfully upload all photos, you can publish a multi-photo post using the returned ids by using the /page-id/feed endpoint. Here is an example of a request:

curl -i -X POST \
 -d "message=Testing multi-photo post!" \
 -d "attached_media[0]={"media_fbid":"1002088839996"}" \
 -d "attached_media[1]={"media_fbid":"1002088840149"}" \
 -d "access_token=<access_token>" \
 "https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed"

When the photos are part of a scheduled post, the published, scheduled_publish_time, and unpublished_content_type parameters must be included.

curl -i -X POST \
 -d "message=Testing multi-photo post!" \
 -d "attached_media[0]={"media_fbid":"1002088839996"}" \
 -d "attached_media[1]={"media_fbid":"1002088840149"}" \
 -d "access_token=<access_token>" \
 -d "published=false" \
 -d "scheduled_publish_time=1512068400" \
 -d "unpublished_content_type=SCHEDULED" \
 "https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed"

Use the Graph API Explorer to get SDK code snippets of the requests.

When publishing to a page using the Graph API Explorer the media_fbids must appear as an array in one Value box, [{"media_fbid":"photo_id"},{"media_fbid":"photo_id"}] or an error will occur.

A successful Graph API request returns the Page Post ID.

If you receive any errors, it's typically because of a permission failure or a bad parameter.

You can make a POST request to photos edge from the following paths:

/{page_id}/photos

When posting to this edge, a Photo will be created.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
`aid` string	Legacy album ID. Deprecated
`allow_spherical_photo` boolean	Default value: `false` Indicates that we should allow this photo to be treated as a spherical photo. This will not change the behavior unless the server is able to interpret the photo as spherical, such as via Photosphere XMP metadata. Regular non-spherical photos will still be treated as regular photos even if this parameter is true.
`alt_text_custom` string	Accessible alternative description for an image
`android_key_hash` string	Android key hash
`application_id` non-empty string	iTunes App ID. This is used by the native Share dialog that's part of iOS
`attempt` int64	Default value: `0` Number of attempts that have been made to upload this photo
`audience_exp` boolean	Default value: `false` Audience exp
`backdated_time` datetime	A user-specified creation time for this photo
`backdated_time_granularity` enum{year, month, day, hour, min, none}	Default value: `none` Use only the part of the `backdated_time` parameter to the specified granularity
`caption` UTF-8 string	The description of the photo Supports Emoji
`composer_session_id` string	Composer session ID
`direct_share_status` int64	The status to allow sponsor directly boost the post.
`feed_targeting` feed target	Object that controls News Feed targeting for this post. Anyone in these groups will be more likely to see this post. People not in these groups will be less likely to see this post, but may still see it anyway. Any of the targeting fields shown here can be used, but none are required. `feed_targeting` applies to Pages only.
`geo_locations` Object
`countries` list<string>
`regions` list<Object>
`key` int64
`cities` list<Object>
`key` int64
`zips` list<Object>
`key` string
`locales` list<string>	Values for targeted locales. Use `type` of `adlocale` to find Targeting Options and use the returned key to specify.
`age_min` int64	Must be `13` or higher. Default is 0.
`age_max` int64	Maximum age.
`genders` list<int64>	Target specific genders. `1` targets all male viewers and `2` females. Default is to target both.
`college_years` list<int64>	Array of integers. Represent graduation years from college.
`education_statuses` list<int64>	Array of integers which represent current educational status. Use `1` for high school, `2` for undergraduate, and `3` for alum (or localized equivalents).
`interested_in` list<int64>	Deprecated. Please see the Graph API Changelog for more information. Deprecated
`relationship_statuses` list<int64>	Array of integers for targeting based on relationship status. Use `1` for single, `2` for 'in a relationship', `3` for married, and `4` for engaged. Default is all types.
`interests` list<int64>	One or more IDs of pages to target fans of pages.Use `type` of `page` to get possible IDs as find Targeting Options and use the returned id to specify.
`filter_type` int64	Default value: `-1` Unused?
`full_res_is_coming_later` boolean	Default value: `false` Full res is coming later
`initial_view_heading_override_degrees` int64	Manually specify the initial view heading in degrees from 0 to 360. This overrides any value present in the photo embedded metadata or provided in the spherical_metadata parameter
`initial_view_pitch_override_degrees` int64	Manually specify the initial view pitch in degrees from -90 to 90. This overrides any value present in the photo embedded metadata or provided in the spherical_metadata parameter
`initial_view_vertical_fov_override_degrees` int64	Manually specify the initial view vertical FOV in degrees from 60 to 120. This overrides any value present in the photo embedded metadata or provided in the spherical_metadata parameter
`ios_bundle_id` string	iOS Bundle ID
`is_explicit_location` boolean	Is this an explicit location?
`is_explicit_place` boolean	If set to `true`, the tag is a place, not a person
`location_source_id` numeric string or integer	ID of a page or a page set that provides location informationto enable Local Extensions
`manual_privacy` boolean	Default value: `false` Manual privacy
`message` string	Deprecated. Please use the caption param instead.
`name` string	Deprecated. Please use the caption param instead.
`nectar_module` string	Nectar module. Internal apps only
`no_story` boolean	If set to `true`, this will suppress the News Feed story that is automatically generated on a profile when people upload a photo using your app. Useful for adding old photos where you may not want to generate a story
`offline_id` int64	Default value: `0` Offline ID
`og_action_type_id` numeric string or integer	The Open Graph action type
`og_icon_id` numeric string or integer	The Open Graph icon
`og_object_id` OG object ID or URL string	The Open Graph object ID
`og_phrase` string	The Open Graph phrase
`og_set_profile_badge` boolean	Default value: `false` Flag to set if the post should create a profile badge
`og_suggestion_mechanism` string	The Open Graph suggestion
`place` place tag	Page ID of a place associated with the photo
`privacy` Privacy Parameter	Determines the privacy settings of the photo. If not supplied, this defaults to the privacy level granted to the app in the Login dialog. This field cannot be used to set a more open privacy setting than the one granted
`profile_id` int	Deprecated. Use `target_id` instead Deprecated
`proxied_app_id` numeric string or integer	Proxied app ID
`published` boolean	Default value: `true` Set to `false` if you don't want the photo to be published immediately
`qn` string	Photos waterfall ID
`scheduled_publish_time` int64	Time at which an unpublished post should be published (Unix timestamp). Applies to Pages only
`spherical_metadata` JSON object	A set of params describing an uploaded spherical photo. This field is not required; if it is not present we will try to generate spherical metadata from the metadata embedded in the image. If it is present, it takes precedence over any embedded metadata. Please click to the left to expand this list and see more information on each parameter. See also the Google Photo Sphere spec for more info on the meaning of the params: https://developers.google.com/streetview/spherical-metadata
`ProjectionType` string	Accepted values include equirectangular (full spherical photo), cylindrical (panorama), and cubestrip (also known as cubemap, e.g. for synthetic or rendered content; stacked vertically with 6 faces). Required
`CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels` int64	--- In equirectangular projection: As described in Google Photo Sphere XMP Metadata spec. --- In cylindrical projection: Very similar to equirectangular. This value should be equal to the actual width of the image, and together with FullPanoWidthPixels, it describes the horizontal FOV of content of the image: HorizontalFOV = 360 * CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels / FullPanoWidthPixels. --- In cubestrip projection: This has no relationship to the pixel dimensions of the image. It is simply a representation of the horizontal FOV of the content of the image. HorizontalFOV = CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels / PixelsPerDegree, where PixelsPerDegree is defined by FullPanoWidthPixels. Required
`CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels` int64	--- In equirectangular projection: As described in Google Photo Sphere XMP Metadata spec. --- In cylindrical projection: This value will NOT be equal to the actual height of the image. Instead, together with FullPanoHeightPixels, it describes the vertical FOV of the image: VerticalFOV = 180 * CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels / FullPanoHeightPixels. In other words, this value is equal to the CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels value that this image would have, if it were projected into equirectangular format while maintaining the same FullPanoWidthPixels. --- In cubestrip projection: This has no relationship to the pixel dimensions of the image. It is simply a representation of the vertical FOV of the content of the image. VerticalFOV = CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels / PixelsPerDegree, where PixelsPerDegree is defined by FullPanoWidthPixels. Required
`FullPanoWidthPixels` int64	--- In equirectangular projection: As described in Google Photo Sphere XMP Metadata spec. --- In cylindrical projection: Very similar to equirectangular. This value defines a ratio of horizontal pixels to degrees in the space of the image, and in general the pixel to degree ratio in the scope of the metadata object. Concretely, PixelsPerDegree = FullPanoWidthPixels / 360. This is also equivalent to the circumference of the cylinder used to model this projection. --- In cubestrip projection: This value has no relationship to the pixel dimensions of the image. It only defines the pixel to degree ratio in the scope of the metadata object. It represents the number of pixels in 360 degrees, so pixels per degree is then given by: PixelsPerDegree = FullPanoWidthPixels / 360. As an example, if FullPanoWidthPixels were chosen to be 3600, we would have PixelsPerDegree = 3600 / 360 = 10. An image with a vertical field of view of 65 degrees would then have a CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels value of 65 * 10 = 650. Required
`FullPanoHeightPixels` int64	--- In equirectangular projection: As described in Google Photo Sphere XMP Metadata spec. --- In cylindrical projection: This value is equal to the FullPanoHeightPixels value that this image would have, if it were projected into equirectangular format while maintaining the same FullPanoWidthPixels. It is always equal to FullPanoWidthPixels / 2. --- In cubestrip projection: This value has no relationship to the pixel dimensions of the image. It is a second, redundant representation of PixelsPerDegree. FullPanoHeightPixels = 180 * PixelsPerDegree. It must be consistent with FullPanoWidthPixels: FullPanoHeightPixels = FullPanoWidthPixels / 2. Required
`CroppedAreaLeftPixels` int64	Default value: `0` --- In equirectangular projection: As described in Google Photo Sphere XMP Metadata spec. --- In cylindrical projection: This value is equal to the CroppedAreaLeftPixels value that this image would have, if it were projected into equirectangular format while maintaining the same FullPanoWidthPixels. It is just a representation of the same angular offset that it represents in equirectangular projection in the Google Photo Sphere spec. Concretely, AngularOffsetFromLeftDegrees = CroppedAreaLeftPixels / PixelsPerDegree, where PixelsPerDegree is defined by FullPanoWidthPixels. --- In cubestrip projection: This value has no relationship to the pixel dimensions of the image. It is just a representation of the same angular offset that it represents in equirectangular projection in the Google Photo Sphere spec. AngularOffsetFromLeftDegrees = CroppedAreaLeftPixels / PixelsPerDegree, where PixelsPerDegree is defined by FullPanoWidthPixels.
`CroppedAreaTopPixels` int64	Default value: `0` --- In equirectangular projection: As described in Google Photo Sphere XMP Metadata spec. --- In cylindrical projection: This value is equal to the CroppedAreaTopPixels value that this image would have, if it were projected into equirectangular format while maintaining the same FullPanoWidthPixels. It is just a representation of the same angular offset that it represents in equirectangular projection in the Google Photo Sphere spec. Concretely, AngularOffsetFromTopDegrees = CroppedAreaTopPixels / PixelsPerDegree, where PixelsPerDegree is defined by FullPanoWidthPixels. --- In cubestrip projection: This value has no relationship to the pixel dimensions of the image. It is just a representation of the same angular offset that it represents in equirectangular projection in the Google Photo Sphere spec. AngularOffsetFromTopDegrees = CroppedAreaTopPixels / PixelsPerDegree, where PixelsPerDegree is defined by FullPanoWidthPixels.
`PoseHeadingDegrees` float
`PosePitchDegrees` float
`PoseRollDegrees` float
`InitialViewHeadingDegrees` float
`InitialViewPitchDegrees` float
`InitialViewRollDegrees` float	This is not currently supported
`InitialViewVerticalFOVDegrees` float	This is deprecated. Please use InitialVerticalFOVDegrees.
`InitialVerticalFOVDegrees` float	You can set the intial vertical FOV of the image. You can set either this field or InitialHorizontalFOVDegrees.
`InitialHorizontalFOVDegrees` float	You can set the intial horizontal FOV of the image. You can set either this field or InitialVerticalFOVDegrees.
`PreProcessCropLeftPixels` int64
`PreProcessCropRightPixels` int64
`sponsor_id` numeric string or integer	Facebook Page id that is tagged as sponsor in the photo post
`sponsor_relationship` int64	Sponsor Relationship, such as Presented By or Paid PartnershipWith
`tags` list<Object>	Default value: `Vec` Tags on this photo
`x` float	The x-axis offset for the tag
`y` float	The y-axis offset for the tag
`tag_uid` int	The user_id of the tagged person
`tag_text` string	Text associated with the tag
`target_id` int	Don't use this. Specifying a `target_id` allows you to post the photo to an object that's not the user in the access token. It only works when posting directly to the `/photos` endpoint. Instead of using this parameter you should be using the edge on an object directly, like `/page/photos`.
`targeting` target	Allows you to target posts to specific audiences. Applies to Pages only
`geo_locations` Object
`countries` list<string>
`regions` list<Object>
`key` int64
`cities` list<Object>
`key` int64
`zips` list<Object>
`key` string
`locales` list<string>
`excluded_countries` list<string>
`excluded_regions` list<int64>
`excluded_cities` list<int64>
`excluded_zipcodes` list<string>
`timezones` list<int64>
`age_min` enum {13, 15, 18, 21, 25}
`temporary` boolean	Default value: `false` This is a temporary photo. `published` must be false, and you can't set `scheduled_publish_time`
`time_since_original_post` int64	Same as `backdated_time` but with a time delta instead of absolute time
`uid` int	Deprecated
`unpublished_content_type` enum {SCHEDULED, SCHEDULED_RECURRING, DRAFT, ADS_POST, INLINE_CREATED, PUBLISHED, REVIEWABLE_BRANDED_CONTENT}	Content type of the unpublished content type
`url` URL	The URL of a photo that is already uploaded to the Internet. You must specify this or a file attachment
`user_selected_tags` boolean	Default value: `false` User selected tags
`vault_image_id` numeric string or integer	A vault image ID to use for a photo. You can use only one of `url`, a file attachment, `vault_image_id`, or `sync_object_uuid`

Return Type

This endpoint supports read-after-write and will read the node represented by id in the return type.

Struct {

id: numeric string,

post_id: string,

}

Error Codes

Error	Description
368	The action attempted has been deemed abusive or is otherwise disallowed
190	Invalid OAuth 2.0 Access Token
100	Invalid parameter
200	Permissions error
324	Missing or invalid image file
80001	There have been too many calls to this Page account. Wait a bit and try again. For more info, please refer to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/rate-limiting.
240	Desktop applications cannot call this function for other users

Updating

You can't perform this operation on this endpoint.

Deleting

You can't perform this operation on this endpoint.