Perl Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Facebook Upload Photo from Local File

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Uploads a new photo with a caption from a local file. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example assumes Chilkat HTTP to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $http = Chilkat2::Http->new;

my $req = Chilkat2::HttpRequest->new;
$req->HttpVerb('POST');
$req->ContentType('multipart/form-data');
$req->Path('/v2.7/me/photos');

# Use the previously obtained access token.
# Note: The publish_actions scope is required to upload a photo.
$req->AddHeader('Authorization', 'Bearer FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN');

# Send an "Expect: 100-continue" header in the request.
# This causes the HTTP server to end a 100-continue response
# immediately after receiving the HTTP header.  The client
# (Chilkat) will receive this intermediate response, and if
# it's not an error response, it knows that the HTTP server will
# accept the data that is forthcoming.
# The alternative is to get an error response after trying to upload
# the entire contents of the files.
$req->AddHeader('Expect', '100-continue');

# Set a photo caption.
$req->AddParam('caption', 'Here are some penguins!');

# Additional parameters can be added to the request by
# calling AddParam once per parameter.
# See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/photos
# for more information about other optional parameters.

# Indicate the local file to be uploaded.
my $success = $req->AddFileForUpload('source', 'qa_data/jpg/penguins2.jpg');
if (!$success) {
    print $req->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Upload the image file..
my $resp = Chilkat2::HttpResponse->new;
$success = $http->HttpSReq('graph.facebook.com', 443, 1, $req, $resp);
if (!$success) {
    print $http->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Examine the response body:
my $responseJson = $resp->BodyStr;
print $responseJson, "\n";

# The response contains JSON, such as this:
# {"id":"10210224963435862","post_id":"10224048320139890_10210224963435862"}