Getting the real Facebook profile picture URL from graph API

Question

Facebook graph API tells me I can get a profile picture of a user using  http   graph facebook com 517267866 picture type large  which works fine  However  when you type above URL into a browser  the actual address of the image is  http   profile ak fbcdn net profile-ak-snc1 v227 560 83 n517267866 1928 jpg  How can I get the second URL using the first one programmatically

User · Answer

If you want the JSON of a good quality profile picture with the URL you can use that:

http://graph.facebook.com/517267866/picture?height=1024&redirect=false

if you just need the picture use it without the parameter redirect:

http://graph.facebook.com/517267866/picture?height=1024

517267866 is the profile ID of one of the above examples. Put the facebook id that you need

I hope that helps

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ImageView user picture  userpicture  ImageView findViewById R id userpicture   URL img value   null  img value   new URL  http   graph facebook com   id   picture type large    Bitmap mIcon1   BitmapFactory decodeStream img value openConnection   getInputStream     userpicture setImageBitmap mIcon1     Where ID is one your profile ID

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I realize this is late  but there is another way to obtain the URL of the profile image   To your original url  you can add the parameter redirect false to obtain the actual URL of the image you d normally be redirected to    So  the new request would look like http   graph facebook com 517267866 picture type large amp redirect false   This will return a JSON object containing the URL of the picture and a boolean is silhouette  true if the picture is the default Facebook picture      The picture will be of the size you specified  as well   You can test this additionally by  adding dimensions  http   graph facebook com 517267866 picture type large amp redirect false amp width 400 amp height 400

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function getFacebookImageFromURL  url       headers   get headers  url  1     if  isset  headers  Location             return  headers  Location            url    https   graph facebook com zuck picture type large    imageURL   getFacebookImageFromURL  url

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Now   Facebook need SSL   -  Important added S  https -  https   graph facebook com userId  fields picture amp type large  Works In June    2014

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this is the only one that really works   me fields picture type  YOURTYPE     where YOURTYPE can be one of the following  small  normal  album  large  square

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http   graph facebook com 517267866  fields picture amp type large  Would return the URL in JSON

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Hmm  i tried everything to get url to user image The perfect solution was fql use like this-        fql b    SELECT pic from user where uid        user id       ret obj b    facebook- gt api array                                  method    gt   fql query                                   query    gt   fql b                                                   dp url   ret obj b 0   pic      replace pic by big pic square to get other desired results  Hope IT HELPED

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The first URL gives a HTTP 302  temporary redirect  to the second   So  to find the second URL programatically  you could issue a HTTP request for the first URL and get the Location header of the response   That said  don t rely on the second URL being pemanent   Reading a little in to the HTTP response code  of 302 as opposed to a permanent 301   it is possible Facebook changes those URLs on a regular basis to prevent people from mdash for example mdash using their servers to host images     Edit  Notice that the CDN URL the OP posted is now a 404  so we know that we cannot rely on the URL being long-lived   Also  if you re linking to the Graph API from an  lt img gt  on a SSL-secured page  there s a parameter you have to add make sure you use https   graph facebook com     Update  The API has added a parameter  ndash  redirect false  ndash  which causes JSON to be returned rather than a redirect   The retruned JSON includes the CDN URL         data            url    http   profile ak fbcdn net              is silhouette   false          Again  I wouldn t rely on this CDN URL being long-lived   The JSON response is sent with permissive CORS headers  so you re free to do this client-side with XHR requests

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For anyone else looking to get the profile pic in iOS   I just did this to get the user s Facebook pic   NSString  profilePicURL    NSString stringWithFormat   http   graph facebook com    picture type large   fbUserID     where  fbUserID  is the Facebook user s profile ID   This way I can always just call the url in profilePicURL to get the image  and I always get it  no problem  If you ve already got the user ID  you don t need any API requests  just stick the ID into the url after facebook com    FYI to anyone looking who needs the fbUserID in iOS   if  FBSession activeSession isOpen          FBRequest requestForMe  startWithCompletionHandler         FBRequestConnection  connection         NSDictionary lt FBGraphUser gt   user         NSError  error             if   error                 self userName   user name               self fbUserID   user id                          You ll need an active FBSession for that to work  see Facebook s docs  and the  Scrumptious  example

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For Android   According to latest Facebook SDK   First you need to call GraphRequest API for getting all the details of user in which API also gives URL of current Profile Picture   Bundle params   new Bundle    params putString  fields    id email gender cover picture type large     new GraphRequest token   me   params  HttpMethod GET          new GraphRequest Callback                  Override             public void onCompleted GraphResponse response                    if  response    null                        try                           JSONObject data   response getJSONObject                            if  data has  picture                                  String profilePicUrl   data getJSONObject  picture   getJSONObject  data   getString  url                                                    catch  Exception e                            e printStackTrace                                                             executeAsync

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url    http   graph facebook com 100000771470028 picture type large    rray get headers  url    hd    rray 4   echo substr  hd strpos  hd  http        This will return the url that you asked  and the problem of changing the url by facebook doesn t matter because you are dynamically calling the url from the original url

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