How to get user s high resolution profile picture on Twitter

Question

I was reading the Twitter documentation at https   dev twitter com overview general user-profile-images-and-banners and it clearly states that      Alternative image sizes for user profile images You can obtain a   user   s most recent profile image  along with the other components   comprising their identity on Twitter  from GET users show  Within the   user object  you   ll find the profile image url and   profile image url https fields  These fields will contain the resized      normal    variant of the user   s uploaded image  This    normal    variant   is typically 48px by 48px       By modifying the URL  you can retrieve other variant sizings such as      bigger        mini     and    original     Consult the table below for more   examples       Variant   Dimensions  Example URL normal  48px by   48px  http   pbs twimg com profile images 2284174872 7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3 normal png   https   pbs twimg com profile images 2284174872 7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3 normal png   bigger    73px by   73px  http   pbs twimg com profile images 2284174872 7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3 bigger png   https   pbs twimg com profile images 2284174872 7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3 bigger png   mini  24px by   24px  http   pbs twimg com profile images 2284174872 7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3 mini png   https   pbs twimg com profile images 2284174872 7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3 mini png   original  original    http   pbs twimg com profile images 2284174872 7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3 png   https   pbs twimg com profile images 2284174872 7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3 png   Omit the underscore and variant to retrieve the original image  The   images can be very large    Twitter API s response is like this for my own account                profile image url https     https   pbs twimg com profile images 559415382457348097 qSYxxIAo normal png             That image URL works  but it s too small  I need the highest resolution available  I do exactly what Twitter says  and omit the  normal suffix  and try this URL   https   pbs twimg com profile images 559415382457348097 qSYxxIAo png  But it s not found  Is Twitter docs outdated or am I missing a point   UPDATE  I ve tried with a few friends  profiles and most of them seem to work  and removing any suffixes and adding  400x400  jpg png  also seems to work  but it s undocumented and unreliable  so I really doubt that I should be using this undocumented API in production   UPDATE 2  I ve refreshed my user object as Twitter also states in case of outdated images  but nothing has changed

User · Accepted Answer

for me the  workaround  solution was to remove the   normal  from the end of the string  Check it out below    Low res image   https   pbs twimg com profile images 636894769742897152 frlgaWB8 normal jpg Hi res image  https   pbs twimg com profile images 636894769742897152 frlgaWB8 jpg

User · Answer

use this URL    https   twitter com  userName  profile image size original   If you are using TWitter SDK you can get the user name when logged in  with TWTRAPIClient  using TWTRAuthSession   This is the code snipe for iOS   if let twitterId   session userID     let twitterClient   TWTRAPIClient userID  twitterId     twitterClient loadUser withID  twitterId    user  error  in        if let userName   user  screenName            let url    https   twitter com   userName  profile image size original

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