An useful resource for developer that requires profile images from various social network website. In this article you will learn how to get profile picture URL from Facebook, Google, Twitter and Gravatar.
Get profile picture from facebook
Use following url to get facebook profile image. You have to replace <ID> with user id or uname of facebook user
http://graph.facebook.com/<ID>/picture?type=<small|normal|album|large|square>
Get Google+ profile picture URL
This method require google API key. To get google API key visit https://code.google.com/apis/console
After getting API key call following URL with user id and your API key
https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/<USER-ID>?fields=image&key=<YOUR_API_KEY>
In response you will get JSON object with profile picture URL
{
"image": {
"url": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-wfeGlIdKTZU/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAMw/oHcmigW8rwg/photo.jpg?sz=50",
"isDefault": false
}
}
Get profile picture from twitter
Call following URL with your twitter screen_name
https://twitter.com/<screen_name>/profile_image?size=<mini|normal|bigger|original>
Reference Twitter Developers Documentation
Get profile picture from gravatar
To get profile picture from gravatar first calculate md5 hash of user’s email ID then call following URL with that hash
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/<md5 hash of email>?s=<size in pixels>
For example
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/205e460b479e2e5b48aec07710c08d50?s=200
How to get Large profile image with google+
How to get linkedin profile picture
function getProfileData() {
IN.API.Raw(“/people/~:(id,email-address,first-name,last-name,formatted-name,picture-url)?format=json”).result(onSuccess).error(onError);
}
Could you please update the twitter one, since the new API this doesn’t work anymore, cheers
Hello, I created a completely free API that can do this for you, Dev Identify. Some of it’s sources is Google, G+ and Gravatar. It provides name, location and profile picture data.
https://devidentify.com