I use the url https://graph.facebook.com/{app_user_id}/picture?width=120&height=120 to show the user picture on my app, but since this morning, it has stopped working on mobile devices.
Now, the same url redirects to https://lookaside.facebook.com/platform/profilepic/?asid={app_user_id}&height=120&width=120. This url works on desktop web, but on mobile it redirects again to https://m.facebook.com/platform/profilepic/?asid={app_user_id}&height=120&width=120 and the mobile web refuses to output the image. If I try to load it in the address bar, it is downloaded instead of showed.
I have searched for any change on the Facebook graph api about this but didn't find anything. Any hint to solve this? Thanks.
This seems to be a bug. Started happening to my app earlier on this morning. Still no fix as of yet.
A few bug reports that have been submitted on Facebook for Developers:
Profile Pictures Can't Load
Graph API Profile picture doesn`t work on mobile
Cross site policy error while accessing graph pictures
I faced the same issue today and I'v found a solution for that and it worked for me.
After login we get below Profile pic URL
http://graph.facebook.com/11111111111/picture?type=large&height=320&width=420
11111111111 is your social id/facebook id
now we need to change this URL in order to display image,
here is the code.
try {
profile_pic = new URL("https://graph.facebook.com/" + id + "/picture?type=large");
Log.i("profile_pic", profile_pic + "");
Picasso.with(getContext()).
load(profile_pic.toString())
.placeholder(R.drawable.img)
.into(imageviewId);
}
catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
id is your socialid/facebook id
in short we just need to remove &height=320&width=420 from url.
you can compare both the url:
http://graph.facebook.com/11111111111/picture?type=large&height=320&width=420
https://graph.facebook.com/11111111111/picture?type=large
and yes you need to change http to https as well
Though I didn't find any official announcements, Facebook during last few days changed their api's, now when you request user's public profile the picture url has extra parameters, ext and hash
Calling the url without these params returns 404 error.
Not sure if the change is affecting Page Scope ID's only.
Currently, when you request user's public profile data the url looks like this
https://lookaside.facebook.com/platform/profilepic/?psid=PAGE_SCOPED_ID&height=1024&ext=1522585606&hash=AeThc8c7EQDFgShs
before it was just
https://lookaside.facebook.com/platform/profilepic/?psid=PAGE_SCOPED_ID&height=1024
It seems to me the only known solution currently would be requesting new public profile data and updating your database.
Hope that helps.
I use the url https://graph.facebook.com/{app_user_id}/picture?width=120&height=120 to show the user picture on my app, but since this morning, it has stopped working on mobile devices.
Now, the same url redirects to https://lookaside.facebook.com/platform/profilepic/?asid={app_user_id}&height=120&width=120. This url works on desktop web, but on mobile it redirects again to https://m.facebook.com/platform/profilepic/?asid={app_user_id}&height=120&width=120 and the mobile web refuses to output the image. If I try to load it in the address bar, it is downloaded instead of showed.
I have searched for any change on the Facebook graph api about this but didn't find anything. Any hint to solve this? Thanks.
This seems to be a bug. Started happening to my app earlier on this morning. Still no fix as of yet.
A few bug reports that have been submitted on Facebook for Developers:
Profile Pictures Can't Load
Graph API Profile picture doesn`t work on mobile
Cross site policy error while accessing graph pictures
I faced the same issue today and I'v found a solution for that and it worked for me.
After login we get below Profile pic URL
http://graph.facebook.com/11111111111/picture?type=large&height=320&width=420
11111111111 is your social id/facebook id
now we need to change this URL in order to display image,
here is the code.
try {
profile_pic = new URL("https://graph.facebook.com/" + id + "/picture?type=large");
Log.i("profile_pic", profile_pic + "");
Picasso.with(getContext()).
load(profile_pic.toString())
.placeholder(R.drawable.img)
.into(imageviewId);
}
catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
id is your socialid/facebook id
in short we just need to remove &height=320&width=420 from url.
you can compare both the url:
http://graph.facebook.com/11111111111/picture?type=large&height=320&width=420
https://graph.facebook.com/11111111111/picture?type=large
and yes you need to change http to https as well
Though I didn't find any official announcements, Facebook during last few days changed their api's, now when you request user's public profile the picture url has extra parameters, ext and hash
Calling the url without these params returns 404 error.
Not sure if the change is affecting Page Scope ID's only.
Currently, when you request user's public profile data the url looks like this
https://lookaside.facebook.com/platform/profilepic/?psid=PAGE_SCOPED_ID&height=1024&ext=1522585606&hash=AeThc8c7EQDFgShs
before it was just
https://lookaside.facebook.com/platform/profilepic/?psid=PAGE_SCOPED_ID&height=1024
It seems to me the only known solution currently would be requesting new public profile data and updating your database.
Hope that helps.
I'm now working on a web application which is mostly based of facebook graph api.
I hold some data about users - actually , the possible public data available - such as name and id.
I also know that a profile picture is a part of the public data, and I wondered how I'll be able to get a direct link to a profile picture of a user only by using their id?
http://graph.facebook.com/" + facebookId + "/picture?type=square
For instance:
http://graph.facebook.com/67563683055/picture?type=square
There are also more sizes besides "square". See the docs.
Update September 2020
As Facebook have updated their docs this method is not working anymore without a token. You need to append some kind of access_token. You can find further information and how to do it correctly in the fb docs to the graph api of user picture
Requirements Change
This endpoint supports App-Scoped User IDs (ASID), User IDs (UID), and Page-Scoped User IDs (PSID). Currently you can query ASIDs and UIDs with no requirements. However, beginning October 24, 2020, an access token will be required for all UID-based queries. If you query a UID and thus must include a token:
use a User access token for Facebook Login authenticated requests
use a Page access token for page-scoped requests
use an App access token for server-side requests
use a Client access token for mobile or web client-side requests
Quote of fb docs
You can use following urls to obtain different sizes of profile images.
Please make sure to add Facebook id to url.
Large size photo
https://graph.facebook.com/{facebookId}/picture?type=large
Medium size photo
https://graph.facebook.com/{facebookId}/picture?type=normal
Small size photo
https://graph.facebook.com/{facebookId}/picture?type=small
Square photo
https://graph.facebook.com/{facebookId}/picture?type=square
To get largest size of the image
https://graph.facebook.com/{userID}?fields=picture.width(720).height(720)
or anything else you need as size. Based on experience, type=large is not the largest result you can obtain.
From the Graph API documentation.
/OBJECT_ID/picture returns a redirect to the object's picture (in this case the users)
/OBJECT_ID/?fields=picture returns the picture's URL
Examples:
<img src="https://graph.facebook.com/4/picture"/> uses a HTTP 301 redirect to Zuck's profile picture
https://graph.facebook.com/4?fields=picture returns the URL itself
This will be helpful link:
http://graph.facebook.com/893914824028397/picture?type=large&redirect=true&width=500&height=500
You can set height and width as you needed
893914824028397 is facebookid
UPDATE September 2020
Facebook has new requirements change: an access token will be required for all UID-based queries
So you have to add your app access token to the url:
https://graph.facebook.com/{profile_id}/picture?type=large&access_token={app_access_token}
To get your app_access_token use the following url:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id={your-app-id}&client_secret={your-app-secret}&grant_type=client_credentials
You find your-app-id and your-app-secret in the Basic Settings of your Facebook app in Facebook developers
https://www.avatars.io/
It's an API that returns the profile image when given a username for a variety of social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and gravatar. It has libraries for iOS, Android, Ruby, Node, PHP, Python, and JavaScript.
you can get it with using this url : you will get the picture HD (max size)
https://graph.facebook.com/{userID}?fields=picture.width(720).height(720)&redirect=false
don't forget redirect=false or it will return an error
Use url as:https://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?type=square in src of img tag.
type may be small,large.
You can use AngularJs for this, Its two -way data binding feature will get solution with minimum effort and less code.
<div>
<input type="text" name="" ng-model="fbid"><br/>
<img src="https://graph.facebook.com/{{fbid}}/picture?type=normal">
</div>
I hope this answers your query.Note: You can use other library as well.
Through the Javascript SDK (v2.12 - April, 2017) you can get the details of the picture request this way:
FB.api("/" + uid + "/picture?redirect=0", function (response) {
console.log(response);
// prints the following:
//data: {
// height: 50
// is_silhouette: false
// url: "https://lookaside.facebook.com/platform/profilepic/?asid=…&height=50&width=50&ext=…&hash…"
// width: 50
//}
if (response && !response.error) {
// change the src attribute of img elements
[...document.getElementsByClassName('fb-user-img')].forEach(
i => i.src = response.data.url
);
// OR redirect to the URL above
location.assign(response.data.url);
}
});
For getting the JSON response the parameter redirect with 0 (zero) as value is important since the request redirects to the image by default. You may still add other parameters in the same URL. Examples:
"/" + uid + "/picture?redirect=0&width=100&height=100": a 100x100 image will be returned;
"/" + uid + "/picture?redirect=0&type=large": a 200x200 image is returned. Other possible type values include: small, normal, album, and square.
As per the current latest Facebook API version 3.2, For users you can use this generic method for getting profile picture is https://graph.facebook.com/v3.2/{user-id}/picture?type=square you can visit documentation for user picture here.
The possible values for type parameter in URL can be small, normal, album, large, square
For Groups and Pages, the profile picture is not available directly. You have to get them using access token. For Groups you have to use User Access Token and for Pages you can use both User Access Token and Page Access Token.
You can get Group's or Page's Profile Picture using the generic URL: https://graph.facebook.com/v3.2/{user-id}/picture?access_token={access-token}&type=square
I hope this is helpful for people who are looking for Page or Group Profile picture.
Simply Follow as below URL
https://graph.facebook.com/facebook_user_id/picture?type=square
type may be normal,small,medium,large. Or square (f you want to get square picture, the square size is limited to 50x50).
today I found a problem, the profile images was returning the default profile picture because a new requirement from Facebook to all the UID based queries, so just add &access_token=[apptoken] to the url, you can obtain your app token from here
You can use the following endpoint to get the image.jfif instead of jpg:
https://graph.facebook.com/v3.2/{user-id}/picture
Note that you won't be able to see the image, only download it.
Update July 2021
On top of answer by #EddyG, turned out that if you still not able to fetch the profile picture with app access token, the FB account must "allow" the FB app first then you should be able to fetch the profile picture with FB app access token.
Hello friends I am using blackberry facebook sdk but that is not working properly. When I use
their skd that is going right but when I create other file and call api them I have face the problem. Please help me. thanks.
I was face same problem when i was tried to use one feature of local image posting on friends wall,but i resolved it using :
Download graph api from http://sourceforge.net/projects/facebook-bb-sdk/. After that i added two thinks.
one was when i wont to post a photo to your friends wall ,you had to put one more key-value in the JSONObject(Request) - that was requestObject.put("target_id",getid()) in publisePhoto method facebookuser.java & facebook.java
Second was, i had to change JSONObject responseObject = fb.write(getId() + "/photos", requestObject, pPhoto.getMIMEType(), imageData, true);
to
JSONObject responseObject = fb.write(getId() + "/photos?access_token="+Facebook.token, requestObject, pPhoto.getMIMEType(), imageData, true);in FacebookUser.java & Facebook.java
where token is Static string from Facebook.java and store the value of access_token (you have to add it)
I hope that will be helpful to you(Little bit).
I want to create a flash Facebook application in which, after pressing a button, the user will be able to browse his/her photo albums and choose a photo. How should i do that? What will be the code under the button to gain authentication from any user using this application?
Thanks.
I am currently writing a facebook application for a university assignment that will allow the user to do everything you can do in facebook, but via the flash player window. You will need a few basic things happening in order to do it.
User log in and authentication - this must be done via Facebook - using OAuth authentication, and meeting all of facebook's security policies
register the application with facebook
Use the Graph API (facebook's developer's toolkit) to get the necessary functions that will communicate with facebook via flash.
In Flash itself you will use a bunch of URLRequest functions to send out to FB for information, then you will need to retrieve that data responses and store them to variables (extracting data with a few lines of code is easy, something like this;
//initialise variables
public var photoURL:String;
var Request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.whatever the url for the graph api service you are using which is founf from FB");
//that ^^ will send off a request for the url, you then want to use the returned data by registering an event handler like this below
functionName.addEventListener(onComplete, completeHandler);
functionName(event, EVENT)
{
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(Request);
var data:XML = new XMLData(load.loader); //i think this is right but not 100% sure, fiddle with it
//then you want to extract the data that is returned, for example, extracting xml data from a rest request works by hitting data from the xml by specifying a path to the object you want. an example of xml is this <rsp stat="ok"><photos ......more code="morecode"><photo url="url of photo"></photo</photos> so you can hit the url in that example like this;
photoURL = data.photos.photo.#url; //this line will grab the photo url for you, allowing you to dynamically create an array and assign photos to the flash stage according to the url you get
}
this is fairly advanced stuff and I am assuming that you have some decent knowledge on AS3, XML, and the FB API, if you need more help just reply