Twitter API 1.1 User Image and name

Question

Twitter provided a great 1.0 API. I could grab an user image just like this:

http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/twitter

Does the 1.1 update give anything like this away for free? Or does the 1.1 update require authentication for a user image and user name? I noticed there is no equivalent call in the docs.

and this does not work:

 http://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/profile_image/twitter

Answer 1

You should find your answers in the Twitter API docs here:

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/user-profile-images-and-banners

e.g: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name=twitterapi

and it does requires Authentication to retrieve it:

Answer 2

You can only get the user image and user name with authentication. If you're trying to get the user profile image with Abraham's twitteroauth, then I guess this link will help you. You can get the user name similarly by calling the name object and display it.