Getting full-size profile picture
FacebookFacebook Graph-ApiFacebook Problem Overview
Is there anyway to get the full-size profile picture using any facebook api?
http://graph.facebook.com/{ID}/picture?type=large is way to small.
Thanks :)
Facebook Solutions
Solution 1 - Facebook
Set either the width or height to some arbitrarily large number:
https://graph.facebook.com/username_or_id/picture?width=9999
If the width and height are the same number, the photo is cropped to a square.
Solution 2 - Facebook
I think I use the simplest method to get the full profile picture. You can get full profile picture or you can set the profile picture dimension yourself:
$facebook->api(me?fields=picture.width(800).height(800))
You can set width
and height
as per your need. Though Facebook doesn't return the exact size asked for, It returns the closest dimension picture available with them.
Solution 3 - Facebook
found a way:
$albums = $facebook->api('/' . $user_id . '/albums');
foreach($albums['data'] as $album){
if ($album['name'] == "Profile Pictures"){
$photos = $facebook->api('/' . $album['id'] . '/photos');
$profile_pic = $photos['data'][0]['source'];
break;
}
}
Solution 4 - Facebook
As noted above, it appears that the cover photo of the profile album is a hi-res profile picture. I would check for the album type of "profile" rather than the name though, as the name may not be consistent across different languages, but the type should be.
To reduce the number of requests / parsing, you can use this fql: "select cover_object_id from album where type='profile' and owner = user_id"
And then you can construct the image url with: "https://graph.facebook.com/" + cover_object_id + "/picture&type=normal&access_token=" + access_token
Looks like there is no "large" type for this image, but the "normal" one is still quite large.
As noted above, this photo may be less accessible than the public profile picture. You need the user_photos or friend_photos permission to access it.
Solution 5 - Facebook
With Javascript you can get full size profile images like this
pass your accessToken
to the getface()
function from your FB.init
call
function getface(accessToken){
FB.api('/me/friends', function (response) {
for (id in response.data) {
var homie=response.data[id].id
FB.api(homie+'/albums?access_token='+accessToken, function (aresponse) {
for (album in aresponse.data) {
if (aresponse.data[album].name == "Profile Pictures") {
FB.api(aresponse.data[album].id + "/photos", function(aresponse) {
console.log(aresponse.data[0].images[0].source);
});
}
}
});
}
});
}
Solution 6 - Facebook
For Angular:
getUserPicture(userId) {
FB.api('/' + userId, {fields: 'picture.width(800).height(800)'}, function(response) {
console.log('getUserPicture',response);
});
}
Solution 7 - Facebook
Profile pictures are scaled down to 125x125 on the facebook sever when they're uploaded, so as far as I know you can't get pictures bigger than that. How big is the picture you're getting?