How to get user image original size with API 1.1

MonkeyM07261520 · 2012-09-06T19:31:27.000Z

In 1.0, I could retrieve the image via GET users/profile_image/:screen_name. I don’t see a 1.1 equivalent. Help?

centrasoft · 2012-09-10T20:08:58.000Z

Would love to know the answer to this query as well. Running into this myself and wondering if the 1.0 way of grabbing a user’s profile image (bigger/normal/etc.) will stop working once 1.1 is out and 1.0 is bye-bye.

episod · 2012-09-10T20:15:26.000Z

See [node:10796] for information on determining different sizes for Twitter avatars in 1.1 (and v1 for that matter).

MonkeyM07261520 · 2012-09-12T13:43:51.000Z

Just what I needed, thanks.

hbdev541 · 2013-05-02T14:59:52.000Z

Thank you for your post…really helped to to me

andybeginit · 2013-06-14T15:32:24.000Z

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

jwerre · 2013-06-19T17:07:12.000Z

Is there a way to get it without making a whole new request, like Facebook and Google+:

https://graph.facebook.com/#{facebook_id}/picture
https://profiles.google.com/s2/photos/profile/#{google_id}

mostsecrets1 · 2013-06-30T21:45:07.000Z

twitter bad method…

Oriza_Sahputra · 2013-08-23T00:04:05.000Z

Thanks TS…

pete_klein · 2014-01-20T00:25:33.000Z

@jwerre - Hey man, in order to get the original image, take the address they give you from the API call, eg. statuses[0].user.profile_image_url, and strip off the “_normal” from the file name. In other words,

take this:

and make it this:

and that’s the full sized image. Hope that helps!

susemi99 · 2014-03-03T09:01:39.000Z

Thank you very much

JosueOrtizFdz · 2014-04-24T07:32:00.000Z

in php code bad but funcional xD!, you can replace $size for bigger , mini etc or echo str_replace(’_normal’, ‘_bigger’,$tweet->user->profile_image_url)

bhaktaraz · 2014-06-24T05:48:00.000Z

@pete_klein & @JosueOrtizFdz good trick…!!! Thank YOu…!!!

kyle_clegg · 2014-07-14T23:10:10.000Z

In API v1.1, the Twitter docs now tell you to “modify the URL” rather than make another request to get the URL for a different image size. So basically, like @pete_klein said, take the profile_image_url from a previous API call (like get friends) and do a string replacement for “normal” to “bigger” or “normal” to “” to get larger profile images.

It feels a little sneaky, but so long as the conventions don’t change it’s one less API call for Twitter’s servers to respond to, and one less API call for your client to make.

babulpatel1309 · 2014-07-24T09:44:41.000Z

Thnq Very very much

ANNMS2 · 2014-12-08T14:31:03.332Z

str_replace(’**_**normal’, ‘’, $tweet->user->profile_image_url)

isaach · 2014-12-08T16:49:15.206Z

Worth noting that you can also just use https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=original. For instance, https://twitter.com/isaach/profile_image?size=original.

thegoguma · 2014-12-11T02:11:07.076Z

@issaach
Is that an officially supported endpoint? I can’t seem to find it in the docs.

isaach · 2014-12-11T16:55:51.979Z

It’s not in the docs because it’s not part of the API. It’s a supported part of the twitter.com site, though.

thegoguma · 2014-12-12T05:31:52.689Z

@isaach

Thanks for the confirmation. Found a bug, described here since it’s not part of the REST api.