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Say I browse to a vk community and would like to be able to retrieve all of the gifs uploaded to that community, How would I go about this?

Ahmed Ali Abbasi
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You can use method docs.get

Access it by link

https://api.vk.com/method/docs.get.xml?owner_id=-GROUP_ID&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN

Read this my answer to know a bit more if you do not have an acess_token

In result you will see a document with xml-format. (if you want to use json-response-format just remove ".xml" from link you're accessing)

Document will contatin all doc-count and information about each of them like document_id, its title and size, extension and url.

Note that if you accessnig documents from community (not from user) your owner_id in the link must be negative, it must contain - before community_id

To know community id you can read another my post

Feel free to ask any questions if you didn't understand anything :)

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  • That was extremely helpful and to the point.Thank you! I had this one more question.Sometimes, I have to call methods that return a list of "post" objects as per VK API.I use a simple json2csharp converter which gives me the proper classes to deal with the objects returned, but with methods like wall.get, I get the C# object. From what I know, I have to cast this object type into post, but the post class isn't available and neither is listed when I enter JSON response to a JSON2Csharp converter. – Ahmed Ali Abbasi Sep 01 '15 at 15:06
  • Sorry, but I do not know c# – SwiftStudier Sep 01 '15 at 15:20
  • Thanks man! You've been mighty helpful.Hope you keep up the good work. :) – Ahmed Ali Abbasi Sep 01 '15 at 15:31