Facebook Graph API - get a photos album ID

Question

I\'m writing an application that uploads a photo to facebook. I\'m not supplying an album ID so an album is created on behalf of my app.

My question is: how do I get

Answer 1

Richard Barnett's solution works well for me, I use this as an FQL query through the Graph API to get a JSON response like I would for any other Graph API query:

https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=select+album_object_id+FROM+photo+WHERE+object_id='[PHOTOID]'

This returns:

{
   "data": [
      {
         "album_object_id": "10150531092908837"
      }
   ]
}

Then you can access the album ID using:

data[0]->album_object_id;

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This is the cleanest solution i've found as Facebook constantly change the format of their photo and album URLs so parsing these with RegEx wont work as a long term fix.