Get user profile picture by Id - facebook

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

Use url as:https://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?type=square in src of img tag.
type may be small,large.

Answer 10

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.

Answer 11

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.

Answer 12

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.

Answer 13

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).

Answer 14

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

Answer 15

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.

Answer 16

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.