How to upload a picture for an event using the Facebook Graph API?

Question

I would like to know how to add a picture to an event using the Facebook Graph API. I have seen this question and tried some variations on that theme, without any success. The o

Answer 1

This is supported by the Graph API, however it is poorly documented. You need to send the image as multipart attachment in the POST request. Try this:

curl -F 'access_token=...' \
-F 'name=Test Event' \
-F 'description=The description' \
-F 'start_time=2012-09-01T12:00:00+0000' \
-F '@file.jpg=@/path/to/image.jpg' \
https://graph.facebook.com/me/events

That event should have a picture.

They have recently added support for this to the PHP SDK.

I've forked their python-sdk and added multipart support, and added a simple put_event method that accepts a url for a picture, as well as the usual params.