Locate specific album on a fan page and post to it

Question

Using C# SDK, I'm currently posting photos directly to the Facebook fan page wall.

The current posting path is as follows: "/PageID/photos".

I need to post to a specific album on this page, e.g. "MyAlbum".

How to get the ID of required album by its name, and what path should be used for posting to it?

Answer 1

To retrieve the album id or aid of the required album of the page you may either retrieve list of albums of the page through Graph API endpoint /PageID/albums and navigate to the required album or use the following FQL, which is more efficient than Graph API,

select aid from album where owner=PageID and name="MyAlbum"

This will give the required aid and to create or upload the images in this specific album you can issue an HTTP POST request to

/aid/photos

with publish_stream permission and source, image source, and message parameters. If the create is successful you will get id of the photo created.

Also refer to album documentation for more detail.