Getting Google profile picture url with user id

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I know that lots of social network APIs provide a way to construct a url to the profile picture of a user  using their user id or username  For Facebook it looks like this   http   graph facebook com user id picture type square  Now is there something like this for Google Plus  Or any other way to get user s pic without an API call

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If you use Flutter  then you can access it via people googleapis com endpoint  code uses google sign in library  import  package google sign in google sign in dart    Future lt String gt  getPhotoUrl GoogleSignInAccount account  String userId  async        final authentication   await account authentication    final url    https   people googleapis com v1 people   userId  personFields photos     final response   await http get      url      headers  await account authHeaders         final data   json decode response body     return data  photos   first  url        You will get something like      resourceName  people 998812322529259873423     etag   EgQBAzcabcQBAgUH     photos    metadata   primary  true  source   type  PROFILE  id  107721622529987673423       url  https   lh3 googleusercontent com a- abcdefmB2p1VWxLsNT9WSV0yqwuwo6o2Ba21sh ra7CnrZ s100       where url is an accessible image url

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Google  no API needed    data   file get contents  http   picasaweb google com data entry api user  lt USER ID gt  alt json     d   json decode  data    avatar    d- gt   entry  - gt   gphoto thumbnail  - gt    t         Outputs example  https   lh3 googleusercontent com -2N6fRg5OFbM AAAAAAAAAAI AAAAAAAAADE 2-RmpExH6iU s64-c photo jpg  CHANGE  the 64 in  s64  for the size

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If you want to show the profile picture for the currently logged in user  you do not even need to know the  user id   Simply using https   plus google com s2 photos profile me will be enough

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UPDATE  The method below DOES NOT WORK since 2015   It is possible to get the profile picture  and you can even set the size of it   https   plus google com s2 photos profile  lt user id gt  sz  lt your desired size gt    Example  My profile picture  with size set to 100 pixels   https   plus google com s2 photos profile 116018066779980863044 sz 100   Usage with an image tag    lt img src  https   plus google com s2 photos profile 116018066779980863044 sz 100  width  100  height  100  gt    Hope you get it working

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UPDATE  Google stopped support for this method  that now returns a 404  not found  error     All this urls fetch the profile picture of a user   https   www google com s2 photos profile  user id  https   plus google com s2 photos profile  user id  https   profiles google com s2 photos profile  user id    They redirect to the same image url you get from Google API  an ugly link as lh6 googleusercontent com -x1W2-XNKA-A AAAAAAAAAAI AAAAAAAAAAA ooSNulbLz8U photo jpg  The simplest is to directly use like image source    lt img src  https   www google com s2 photos profile  user id   gt    Otherwise to obtain exactly the same url of a Google API call you can read image headers  for example in PHP    headers   get headers  https   www google com s2 photos profile  user id    1   echo   lt img src  headers Location  gt      as described in article Fetch Google Plus Profile Picture using PHP

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trying to access the  s2 profile photo url works for most users but not all   The only full proof method is to use the Google  API  You don t need user authentication to request public profile data so it s a rather simple method    Get a Google  API key on https   cloud google com console Make a simple GET request to  https   www googleapis com plus v1 people   lt  username   key    Note the   before the username  If you use user ids instead  the long string of digits   you don t need the     you will get a very comprehensive JSON representation of the profile data which includes    image    url    https   lh4 googleusercontent com       the rest of the picture url

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2020 Solution Please comment if no longer available  In order to get profile URL from authenticated user  GET https   people googleapis com v1 people  THE USER ID OF THE AUTHENTICATED USER  personFields photos amp key  YOUR API KEY  HTTP 1 1  Authorization  Bearer  YOUR ACCESS TOKEN  Accept  application json  Response       quot resourceName quot    quot people  THE USER ID OF THE AUTHENTICATED USER  quot      quot etag quot    quot 12345 quot      quot photos quot                  quot metadata quot              quot primary quot   true           quot source quot                quot type quot    quot PROFILE quot              quot id quot    quot  THE USER ID OF THE AUTHENTICATED USER  quot                            quot url quot    quot https   lh3 googleusercontent com a- blablabla s100 quot               and the link can be used as   lt img src  quot https   lh3 googleusercontent com a- blablabla s100 quot  gt

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Approach 1   no longer works   https   plus google com s2 photos profile  lt user id gt  sz  lt your desired size gt    Approach 2   each request counts in your api rate limits which is 10k requests per day for free   https   www googleapis com plus v1 people  lt user id gt  fields image amp key  YOUR API KEY    with the following response format      image      url    lh5 googleusercontent com -keLR5zGxWOg     photo jpg sz 50         Approach 3   donot require api key   http   picasaweb google com data entry api user  lt user id gt  alt json   in the json response you get a property named  gphoto thumbnail   which contains the profile picture url like the following   http   lh6 ggpht com -btLsReiDeF0 AAAAAAAAAAI AAAAAAAAAAA GXBpycNk984 s64-c filename jpg   You may notice in the url the portion  s64-c  which means the image size to be 64  I ve tried using other values like  s100-c  and they worked  Also if you remove the  s64-c  part and append the   sz 100  parameter  that will also work as of now  Though this is not very good way of getting the profile picture of a gplus user  but the advantage is it do not require any api key

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Tried everything possible   here is final piece of working code  Hope it helps someone who is looking for it        lt    url  https   www googleapis com plus v1 people 116599978027440206136 fields image 2Furl amp key MY API KEY amp fields image    ch   curl init    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   url   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT PROXYPORT  3128   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYHOST  0   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYPEER  0    response   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch    d   json decode  response    avatar url    d- gt   image  - gt   url    echo  avatar url    gt

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You can get the URL for the profile image using the people get method of the Google  API   That does require an extra round trip  but is the most reliable way to get the image   You technically can also use the URL https   s2 googleusercontent com s2 photos profile  id  sz  size  which will then redirect to the final URL    id  is the Google user ID or one of the old Google Profiles usernames  they still exist for users who had them  but I don t think you can create new ones anymore     size  is the desired size of the photo in pixels   I m almost certain this is not a documented  supported feature  so I wouldn t rely on it for anything important as it may go away at anytime without notice   But for quick prototypes or small one-off applications  it may be sufficient

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Simple answer  No  You will have to query the person API and the take the profile image url data to get the photo  AFAIK there is no default format for that url that contains the userID

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Google had changed their policy so the old way for getting the Google profile image will not work now  which was https   plus google com s2 photos profile  user id  sz 150 New Way for doing this is Request URL https   www googleapis com plus v1 people 115950284   320 fields image amp key  YOUR API KEY   That will give the Google profile image url in json format as given below Response          quot image quot                    quot url quot    quot https   lh3 googleusercontent com -OkM   AANA ltpH4BFZ2as photo jpg sz 50 quot            More parameters can be found to send with URL which you may need from here For more detail you can also check the given question where I have answered for same type of problem How to get user image through user id in Google plus

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