I have created a scenario to get the details of a post from a facebook group. Initially, the scenario only consisted of ‘Watch Posts’ and ‘Make a request’ module (To get the response at my desired url, I am using webhook.site for now) but in case of multiple attachments in a single post, I wasn’t getting the desired response so I added ‘Get a post’ module after the ‘Watch posts’ module.
Now when I post in my group with multiple attachments,
‘Watch Posts’ returns output as below:
‘Get a post’ module takes the post_id as the input and returns the output as below:
You can clearly see there are some extra properties (like Attachments) in the above output and it is NOT EMPTY.
Here’s complete output:
[
{
"id": "968062121174530_980333669947375",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/968062121174530/permalink/980333669947375/",
"name": "Photos from Sagar Singh's post",
"type": "video",
"source": "https://video-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-2/359543978_293841039812432_6811214633119398890_n.mp4?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=985c63&efg=eyJybHIiOjMwMCwicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoic3ZlX3NkIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=wWfY4npNHygAX907vHT&rl=300&vabr=117&_nc_ht=video-iad3-2.xx&edm=ADqbNqUEAAAA&oh=00_AfDzfFtfG2hk5bsyqFxFj-H2WcL0FRkmLvZ9I4Y9q5UV3Q&oe=64B5DB82",
"target": {
"id": "968062121174530",
"name": "BrewMyTech"
},
"message": "This is a post.",
"picture": "https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/347732507_6677334552313123_1611600885941879312_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s130x130&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=ad6a45&_nc_ohc=OAIq_wUm7DcAX8OkRTQ&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&edm=ADqbNqUEAAAA&oh=00_AfC998qRTieMKkUfjjDSU1QhTaLfEBl7bg8oeCiTG0N4zw&oe=64B5D56B",
"object_id": "719005403371798",
"attachments": [
{
"subattachments": {
"data": [
{
"media": {
"image": {
"height": 270,
"src": "https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/347732507_6677334552313123_1611600885941879312_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=ad6a45&_nc_ohc=OAIq_wUm7DcAX8OkRTQ&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&edm=ADqbNqUEAAAA&oh=00_AfBLt896e6CRynez9DZPjjQsGgLYGzc85Liei60rXbMbIA&oe=64B5D56B",
"width": 480
}
},
"target": {
"id": "719005403371798",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/968062121174530/permalink/980333669947375/"
},
"type": "video",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/968062121174530/permalink/980333669947375/"
},
{
"media": {
"image": {
"height": 567,
"src": "https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/347591262_127723797034426_1310030601951189577_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=Z2gkv9oq1qcAX9lM5uu&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&edm=ADqbNqUEAAAA&oh=00_AfA9VzSXi1DDVRPLjrScmSXVR1tVKsoUfFzvfYIhYrWU9w&oe=64B65088",
"width": 470
}
},
"target": {
"id": "127723800367759",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=127723800367759&set=gm.980333666614042&type=3"
},
"type": "photo",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=127723800367759&set=gm.980333666614042&type=3"
}
]
},
"target": {
"id": "980333669947375",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pcb.980333669947375&type=1"
},
"title": "Photos from Sagar Singh's post",
"type": "album",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pcb.980333669947375&type=1"
}
],
"created_time": "2023-07-13T22:07:36.000Z",
"full_picture": "https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/347732507_6677334552313123_1611600885941879312_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=ad6a45&_nc_ohc=OAIq_wUm7DcAX8OkRTQ&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&edm=ADqbNqUEAAAA&oh=00_AfBLt896e6CRynez9DZPjjQsGgLYGzc85Liei60rXbMbIA&oe=64B5D56B",
"updated_time": "2023-07-13T22:07:37.000Z",
"permalink_url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/968062121174530/permalink/980333669947375/"
}
]
When I tried to post this content via ‘Make a request’ module, The ‘Attachments’ and its sub-properties are empty in my response. I am getting other properties values though.
I even added a ‘Create JSON’ module and generated the schema with the help of sample data (output from ‘Get a post’ module) as shown below:
Now I connected all the four and added the output of ‘Create JSON’ module in my Request content of ‘Make a request’ module.
The flow should be like this: ‘Create JSON’ takes output of ‘Get a post’ as input, processes it and gives JSON string as output which I can send to my url. But the problem here is that the Attachments is not empty in my ‘Get a post’ output but it is empty in the ‘Create JSON’ input.
It was empty before also, when I had not added ‘Create JSON’ and was sending the data directly via ‘Watch Posts’ → ‘Get a post’ → ‘Make a request’.
Here’s the input of ‘Create JSON’:
[
{
"id": "968062121174530_980333669947375",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/968062121174530/permalink/980333669947375/",
"name": "Photos from Sagar Singh's post",
"type": "video",
"source": "https://video-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-2/359543978_293841039812432_6811214633119398890_n.mp4?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=985c63&efg=eyJybHIiOjMwMCwicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoic3ZlX3NkIn0%3D&_nc_ohc=wWfY4npNHygAX907vHT&rl=300&vabr=117&_nc_ht=video-iad3-2.xx&edm=ADqbNqUEAAAA&oh=00_AfDzfFtfG2hk5bsyqFxFj-H2WcL0FRkmLvZ9I4Y9q5UV3Q&oe=64B5DB82",
"target": {
"id": "968062121174530",
"name": "BrewMyTech"
},
"picture": "https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/347732507_6677334552313123_1611600885941879312_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s130x130&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=ad6a45&_nc_ohc=OAIq_wUm7DcAX8OkRTQ&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&edm=ADqbNqUEAAAA&oh=00_AfC998qRTieMKkUfjjDSU1QhTaLfEBl7bg8oeCiTG0N4zw&oe=64B5D56B",
"object_id": "719005403371798",
"attachments": [
{
"url": null,
"type": null,
"title": null,
"target": {
"id": null,
"url": null
},
"subattachments": {
"data": [
{
"url": null,
"type": null,
"media": {
"image": {
"src": null,
"width": null,
"height": null
}
},
"target": {
"id": null,
"url": null
}
}
]
}
}
],
"created_time": "2023-07-13T22:07:36.000Z",
"full_picture": "https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t15.5256-10/347732507_6677334552313123_1611600885941879312_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=ad6a45&_nc_ohc=OAIq_wUm7DcAX8OkRTQ&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&edm=ADqbNqUEAAAA&oh=00_AfBLt896e6CRynez9DZPjjQsGgLYGzc85Liei60rXbMbIA&oe=64B5D56B",
"updated_time": "2023-07-13T22:07:37.000Z",
"permalink_url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/968062121174530/permalink/980333669947375/"
}
]
It can be seen the attachments and its sub-properties are null which shouldn’t be the case.
Kindly help me out.
Thanks.
