title: Displaying Facebook Images by calling the image source url directly - Do I need the FB API?
body: <p>I have been asked to update an integration between a php/mysql site and FB, to meet some new requirements and also the new FB API guidelines and submit a new FB App for review.  </p>
  
  <p>Up until now, what this integration does, is that it is loading FB page albums images by album ID, and showing them as galleries on the php site. 
  Every time there is a request to display an album, there is an API call that will fetch the images urls and load them in the gallery.</p>
  
  <p>FB have notified the app owner that his app will stop working after August 1st. So there is actually to little time to update the integration, and the app and prepare for submission for app review. </p>
  
  <p>So, I am wondering if as a temporary solution I could store the data for all those albums and their images in the site's database, and then load the galleries directly using the images urls that will be stored in the database, without calling the FB API. </p>
  
  <p>I have searched in Google and Facebook, but I couldn't find any specific information if this is something that is allowed or not, as search results are coming mixed due to the keywords used. </p>
  
  <p>Anyone could give me some information on this? 
  Would loading the images on the php site directly using images source url be safe and not violate any FB usage rules?</p>
  
  <p>Also, I would assume that images source won't change in time, but could someone confirm that this is the case, so that the stored images data won't become outdated and result in not found errors?</p>