Face recognition via facebook API

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user3682065 picture user3682065 · Aug 29, 2015 · Viewed 32.4k times · Source

Currently, if I have a facebook friend whom I've tagged in a picture that I've uploaded, when I upload a picture with his face on it, facebook automatically suggests his user as a tag.

Is it possible to emulate this same behavior via the facebook graph api or the SDK?

In other words, if I use the api as described on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/photos/ to upload a photo (described under "Creating") of a user that my account is friends with, is there any way facebook will make that same suggestion in the request return parameters or something like that?

Answer

Zool picture Zool · Jan 8, 2016

Yes. You can use Facematch, an unofficial wrapper for the Facebook face recognition feature.

When you upload a picture on Facebook, the /photos/tagging/recognition endpoint is called. This program uploads a private picture (using Facebook API) + calls the recognition endpoint (by simulating a browser using the user's information).

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