Facebook API - How do I get a Facebook user's

Question

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?

Answer 1

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&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&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 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.

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&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:

&redirect=false

like so:

https://graph.facebook.com/redbull/picture?width=140&height=110&redirect=false

Answer 2

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/

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

To show:

50x50 pixels

<img src="//graph.facebook.com/{{fid}}/picture">

200 pixels width

<img src="//graph.facebook.com/{{fid}}/picture?type=large">

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:

<img src="//graph.facebook.com/{{fid}}/picture?access_token={{access_token}}">

UPDATE 2015:

Graph API v2.0 can't be queried using usernames, you should use userId always.

Answer 5

Simple one-line code to save FULL size profile image on your server.

<?php

copy("https://graph.facebook.com/FACEBOOKID/picture?width=9999&height=9999", "picture.jpg");

?>

This will only work if openssl will be enabled in php.ini.

Answer 6

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.