Facebook API - How do I get a Facebook user s profile image through the Facebook API without requiring the user to Allow the application

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I m working on a CMS that fetches a user s profile image from their Facebook URL  that is  http   facebook com users unique url   How can I accomplish this  Is there a Faceboook API call that fetches a user s profile image URL without the user needing to Allow the application

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UPDATE   Starting end August 2012  the API has been updated to allow you to retrieve user s profile pictures in varying sizes  Add the optional width and height fields as URL parameters   https   graph facebook com USER ID picture width WIDTH amp height HEIGHT   where WIDTH and HEIGHT are your requested dimension values   This will return a profile picture with a minimum size of WIDTH x HEIGHT while trying to preserve the aspect ratio  For example   https   graph facebook com redbull picture width 140 amp height 110   returns               data              url    https   fbcdn-profile-a akamaihd net hprofile-ak-ash4 c0 19 180 142 s148x148 2624 134501175351 4831452 a jpg            width   148           height   117           is silhouette   false                END UPDATE  To get a user s profile picture  call  https   graph facebook com USER ID picture   where USER ID can be the user id number or the user name   To get a user profile picture of a specific size  call  https   graph facebook com USER ID picture type SIZE   where SIZE should be replaced with one of the words  square small normal large   depending on the size you want   This call will return a URL to a single image with its size based on your chosen type parameter   For example   https   graph facebook com USER ID picture type small   returns a URL to a small version of the image   The API only specifies the maximum size for profile images  not the actual size   Square      maximum width and height of 50 nbsp pixels    Small     maximum width of 50 nbsp pixels and a maximum height of 150 nbsp pixels    Normal     maximum width of 100 nbsp pixels and a maximum height of 300 nbsp pixels    Large     maximum width of 200 nbsp pixels and a maximum height of 600 nbsp pixels    If you call the default USER ID picture you get the square type   CLARIFICATION  If you call  as per above example   https   graph facebook com redbull picture width 140 amp height 110   it will return a JSON response if you re using one of the Facebook SDKs request methods  Otherwise it will return the image itself  To always retrieve the JSON  add    amp redirect false   like so   https   graph facebook com redbull picture width 140 amp height 110 amp redirect false

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I was thinking - maybe ID will be a useful tool  Every time a user creates a new account it should get a higher ID  I googled and found that there is a method to estimate the account creation date by ID and Massoud Seifi from metadatascience com gathered some good data about it     Read this article   http   metadatascience com 2013 03 11 inferring-facebook-account-creation-date-from-facebook-user-id   And here are some IDs to download   http   metadatascience com 2013 03 14 lookup-table-for-inferring-facebook-account-creation-date-from-facebook-user-id

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One way is to use the code Gamlet posted in his answer    Save it as curl php Then in your file   require  curl php     photo  https   graph facebook com me picture access token      session  access token     sample   new sfFacebookPhoto   thephotoURL    sample- gt getRealUrl  photo   echo  thephotoURL     I thought I would post this  because it took me a bit of time to figure out the particulars    Even though profile pictures are public  you still need to have an access token in there to get it when you curl it

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There is way to do that     Thanks to  http   it toolbox com wiki index php Use curl from PHP - processing response headers     lt  php                 Facebook user photo downloader              class sfFacebookPhoto            private  useragent    Loximi sfFacebookPhoto PHP5  cURL            private  curl   null          private  response meta info   array            private  header   array                   Accept-Encoding  gzip deflate                    Accept-Charset  utf-8 q 0 7   q 0 7                    Connection  close                          public function   construct                  this- gt curl   curl init                register shutdown function array  this   shutdown                                       Get the real URL for the picture to use after                     public function getRealUrl  photoLink                curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER   this- gt header               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  false               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT HEADER  false               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT USERAGENT   this- gt useragent               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT CONNECTTIMEOUT  10               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT TIMEOUT  15               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT HTTP VERSION  CURL HTTP VERSION 1 1               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT URL   photoLink                  This assumes your code is into a class method  and               uses  this- gt readHeader as the callback function              curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT HEADERFUNCTION  array  amp  this   readHeader                  response   curl exec  this- gt curl               if   curl errno  this- gt curl                      info   curl getinfo  this- gt curl                   var dump  info                   if   info  http code      302                         headers    this- gt getHeaders                        if  isset  headers  fileUrl                               return  headers  fileUrl                                                                      return false                                     Download Facebook user photo                                public function download  fileName                curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER   this- gt header               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT HEADER  false               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT USERAGENT   this- gt useragent               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT CONNECTTIMEOUT  10               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT TIMEOUT  15               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT HTTP VERSION  CURL HTTP VERSION 1 1               curl setopt  this- gt curl  CURLOPT URL   fileName                response   curl exec  this- gt curl                return   false              if   curl errno  this- gt curl                      parts   explode       fileName                    ext   array pop  parts                    return   sfConfig  get  sf upload dir       tmp     uniqid  fbphoto            ext                  file put contents  return   response                             return  return                                    cURL callback function for reading and processing headers             Override this for your needs                         param object  ch             param string  header             return integer                     private function readHeader  ch   header                   Extracting example data  filename from header field Content-Disposition              filename    this- gt extractCustomHeader  Location       n    header               if   filename                     this- gt response meta info  fileUrl     trim  filename                             return strlen  header                      private function extractCustomHeader  start   end   header                 pattern         start            end                   if  preg match  pattern   header   result                     return  result 1                             else                   return false                                   public function getHeaders                 return  this- gt response meta info                                    Cleanup resources                     public function shutdown                 if  this- gt curl                    curl close  this- gt curl

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Simple one-line code to save FULL size profile image on your server    lt  php  copy  https   graph facebook com FACEBOOKID picture width 9999 amp height 9999    picture jpg       gt    This will only work if openssl is enabled in php ini

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To show   50x50 pixels   lt img src    graph facebook com   fid   picture  gt    200 pixels width   lt img src    graph facebook com   fid   picture type large  gt    To save  using PHP   NOTE  Don t use this  See  Foreever s comment below    img   file get contents  https   graph facebook com    fid   picture type large     file   dirname   file      avatar    fid   jpg   file put contents  file   img     Where  fid is your user id on Facebook   NOTE  In case of images marked as  18   you will need a valid access token from a 18  user    lt img src    graph facebook com   fid   picture access token   access token    gt    UPDATE 2015   Graph API v2 0 can t be queried using usernames  you should use userId always

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To get the image URL  NOT binary content    url    http   graph facebook com  fbId picture type  size     headers   get headers  url  1    if  isset  headers  Location          echo  headers  Location       string else     echo  ERROR     You must use your FACEBOOK ID  NOT USERNAME  You can get your facebook id there   http   findmyfbid com

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Added this as a comment to accepted answer  but felt it deserved a longer explanation  Starting around April 2015 this will probably be raised a few times   As of V2 of the graph api the accepted answer no longer works using a username  So now you need the userid first  and you can no longer use a username to get this  To further complicate matters  for privacy reasons  Facebook is now changing userid s per app  see https   developers facebook com docs graph-api reference v2 2 user  and https   developers facebook com docs apps upgrading  upgrading v2 0 user ids    so you will have to have some kind of proper authentication to retrieve a userid you can use  Technically the profile pic is still public and available at  userid picture  see docs at https   developers facebook com docs graph-api reference v2 0 user picture and this example user  http   graph facebook com v2 2 4 picture redirect 0  however figuring out a user s standard userid seems impossible based just on their profile - your app would need to get them to approve interaction with the app which for my use case  just showing a profile pic next to their FB profile link  is overkill    If someone has figured out a way to get the profile pic based on username  or alternatively  how to get a userid  even an alternating one  to use to retrieve a profile pic  please share  In the meantime  the old graph url still works until April 2015

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Are you concerned about the profile picture size  at the time of implementing login with Facebook using PHP  We   ll show you the simple way to get large size profile picture in Facebook PHP SDK  Also  you can get the custom size image of Facebook profile   Set the profile picture dimension by using the following line of code    userProfile    facebook- api   me fields picture width 400  height 400      check this post http   www codexworld com how-to-guides get-large-size-profile-picture-in-facebook-php-sdk

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The blog post Grab the Picture of a Facebook Graph Object might offer another form of solution  Use the code in the tutorial along with the Facebook s Graph API and its PHP SDK library       And try not to use file get contents  unless you re ready to face the consequences - see file get contents vs curl

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URI    https   graph facebook com    picture width 500  format uid    You can get the profile URI via online facebook id finder tool  You can also pass type param with possible values small  normal  large  square   Refer the official documentation

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NaturalBornCamper   Nice code  Here is a clean-cut code function for such process   function get raw facebook avatar url  uid         array   get headers  https   graph facebook com    uid   picture type large   1       return  isset  array  Location       array  Location     FALSE       This will return the raw Facebook avatar image URL  Feel free to do whatever you want with it then

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Simply fetch the data through this URL   http   graph facebook com userid here picture  Replace userid here with id of the user you want to get the photo of  You can also use HTTPS as well   You can use the PHP s file get contents function to read that URL and process the retrieved data   Resource   http   developers facebook com docs api  Note  In php ini  you need to make sure that the OpenSSL extension is enabled to use thefile get contents function of PHP to read that URL

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Working PHP  HTTP GET  solution from April 2015  without PHP 5 SDK    function get facebook user avatar  fbId            json   file get contents  https   graph facebook com v2 5    fbId   picture type large amp redirect false             picture   json decode  json  true           return  picture  data    url        You can change  type  in parametr   Square      maximum width and height of 50 pixels    Small     maximum width of 50 pixels and a maximum height of 150 pixels    Normal     maximum width of 100 pixels and a maximum height of 300 pixels    Large     maximum width of 200 pixels and a maximum height of 600 pixels

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