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albums for groups not possible #2

Closed duanegran closed 10 years ago

duanegran commented 11 years ago

I wanted to share this more along the lines of information rather than an issue, but it appears after quite a bit of trial and error that there is no way to import albums that are part of a facebook group. The breaking point appears that there is no exposed album_id for these albums. I would love to be proven wrong, but for my purposes I'm looking at migrating away from groups and instead to use pages.

apumapho commented 11 years ago

Duane - can you share a link to the group album you're trying to connect to the Facebook plugin? There may be a way to get it to work, but as you wrote, migrating to Pages should also do the trick.

duanegran commented 11 years ago

Thanks for asking. Any album here would show you what I mean:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fortunacycling/photos/

Here is a direct link when selecting one of the albums:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.472764116079532&type=1

The URL pattern is definitely different. I tried some things with the graph API to query the media set and it came back with an empty set and I just couldn't seem to find a way to get the album_id for any of these. My hunch is that Facebook handles albums for groups in some different way. We are well under way to transitioning to a Page and it works just great in that arrangement.