Facebook Graph API : get larger pictures in one request

Question

I'm currently using the Graph API Explorer to make some tests. That's a good tool.

I want to get the user's friend list, with friends' names, ids and pictures. So I type :

https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=id,picture,name

But picture is only 50x50, and I would like a larger one in this request.

Is it possible ?

score 209 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '12 at 18:53

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As described in this bug on Facebook, you can also request specific image sizes now via the new API "field expansion" syntax.

Like so:

https://graph.facebook.com/____OBJECT_ID____?fields=picture.type(large)

answered Oct 04 '12 at 18:53

thaddeusmt

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Indeed. fields=picture.width(640) is even better. – kaay Apr 30 '14 at 12:23
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It seems the Facebook Graph API changed their api. Facebook responsed "Subfields are not supported by picture" when I tried to use your suggestion. – Phat H. VU Jul 25 '14 at 04:38
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getting error: { "error": { "message": "Unsupported get request. Please read the Graph API documentation at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api", "type": "GraphMethodException", "code": 100 } } – Vineesh TP Oct 13 '14 at 10:41
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See the ?field=full_picture,attachments for 2.x queries – Kevin Mar 27 '15 at 02:44
After going through 5 and more topics, finally found correct solution. Thanks! – Jaanus Apr 07 '15 at 17:53
You saved me from doing batch request, thx! Don't understand why I didn't found it in docs. – Kirill Reznikov Jul 24 '15 at 20:36
With version 2.5, I'm also seeing "Subfields are not supported by picture". Is there a workaround? – Learner Jul 06 '16 at 07:04
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With New Facebook Changes, unable to get the larger image. Any hint anyone? – shadab.tughlaq Aug 16 '16 at 08:22

andyrandy · Answer 2 · 2015-03-27T07:52:02.333

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The best way to get all friends (who are using the App too, of course) with correct picture sizes is to use field expansion, either with one of the size tags (square, small, normal, large):

/me/friends?fields=picture.type(large)

(edit: this does not work anymore)

...or you can specify the width/height:

me/friends?fields=picture.width(100).height(100)

Btw, you can also write it like this:

me?fields=friends{picture.type(large)}

edited Mar 27 '15 at 07:52

answered Nov 18 '14 at 23:28

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thanx for the info, i will update the answer. full_picture does not seem to work for friends though: /me/friends?fields=full_picture - do you have any idea how this would be possible? – andyrandy Mar 27 '15 at 07:50

score 68 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '12 at 12:14

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you do not need to pull 'picture' attribute though. there is much more convenient way, the only thing you need is userid, see example below;

https://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?type=large

p.s. type defines the size you want

plz keep in mind that using token with basic permissions, /me/friends will return list of friends only with id+name attributes

answered May 18 '12 at 12:14

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But i'm not agree with you last sentence : with basic permission, you can access more than id+name attribute, ex : https://graph.facebook.com/btaylor – Martin May 18 '12 at 12:22
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uhm, what about "in one request"? – Iulian Onofrei Apr 24 '14 at 10:06
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U can also use full_picture instat of picture. – Bo Pennings Nov 28 '16 at 11:32
"message": "(#12) picture edge for this type is deprecated for versions v2.3 and higher", – Toolkit Apr 21 '18 at 09:13

score 40 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 24 '18 at 14:57

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You can set the size of the picture in pixels, like this:

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.8/me?fields=id,name,picture.width(500).height(500)

In the similar manner, type parameter can be used

{user-id}/?fields=name,picture.type(large)

From the documentation

type enum{small, normal, album, large, square}

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answered Oct 30 '17 at 14:28

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Julian Mann · Answer 5 · 2017-01-26T17:02:03.087

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Change the array of fields id,name,picture to id,name,picture.type(large)

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.8/me?fields=id,name,picture.type(large)&access_token=<the_token>

Result:

{
   "id": "130716224073524",
   "name": "Julian Mann",
   "picture": {
      "data": {
         "is_silhouette": false,
         "url": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p200x200/15032818_133926070419206_3681208703790460208_n.jpg?oh=a288898d87420cdc7ed8db5602bbb520&oe=58CB5D16"
      }
   }
}

edited Jan 26 '17 at 17:02

answered Nov 18 '16 at 06:32

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How is 200 x 200 large? – AlxVallejo May 24 '17 at 21:14
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In latest (2.10) Graph API is not "large" size available: `Graph returned an error: (#100) For field 'picture': type must be one of the following values: thumbnail, small, album` – Honza Oct 14 '17 at 21:33

score 20 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 30 '12 at 12:04

You can also try getting the image if you want it based on the height or width

https://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?height=

OR

https://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?width=

The values are by default in pixels you just need to provide the int value

Jonghee Park · Answer 7 · 2015-03-04T00:52:47.170

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I researched Graph API Explorer extensively and finally found full_picture

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/$id/posts?fields=picture,full_picture

P.S. I noticed that full_picture won't always provide full size image I want. 'attachments' does

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/$id/posts?fields=picture,full_picture,attachments

edited Mar 04 '15 at 00:52

answered Dec 17 '14 at 11:18

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this is only show width:720px. u r only large photo find like this. for biggest https://graph.facebook.com/photo_id u can see 6 different sizes photo. – gokhan Feb 03 '15 at 16:32
i just tested this with the friends endpoint and it did not work – andyrandy Mar 27 '15 at 07:54

score 10 · Answer 8 · answered May 18 '12 at 12:14

Hum... I think I've found a solution.

In fact, in can just request

https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=id,name

According to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ (section "Pictures"), url of profile's photos can be built with the user id

For example, assuming user id is in $id :

"http://graph.facebook.com/$id/picture?type=square"
"http://graph.facebook.com/$id/picture?type=small"
"http://graph.facebook.com/$id/picture?type=normal"
"http://graph.facebook.com/$id/picture?type=large"

But it's not the final image URL, so if someone have a better solution, i would be glad to know :)

PICTURE SIZE TYPES: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/picture/ — jave.web, Jan 13 '14 at 15:08

score 5 · Answer 9 · edited Jul 25 '20 at 08:54

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You can specify width & height in your request to Facebook graph API: http://graph.facebook.com/user_id/picture?width=500&height=500

edited Jul 25 '20 at 08:54

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answered Jul 18 '17 at 09:53

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score 4 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 29 '20 at 00:11

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You can size it as follows.

Use:

https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID?fields=picture.type(large)

For details: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/picture/

answered Sep 29 '20 at 00:11

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score 2 · Answer 11 · answered Jan 25 '17 at 15:39

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From v2.7, /<picture-id>?fields=images will give you a list with different size of the images, the first element being the full size image.

I don't know of any solution for multiple images at once.

answered Jan 25 '17 at 15:39

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Ebleme · Answer 12 · 2019-03-23T18:29:48.387

I got this error when I made a request with picture.type(full_picture):

"(#100) For field 'picture': type must be one of the following values: small, normal, album, large, square"

When I make the request with picture.type(album) and picture.type(square), responses me with an image 50x50 pixel size.

When I make the request with picture.type(large), responses me with an image 200x200 pixel size.

When I make the request with picture.width(800), responses me with an image 477x477 pixel size.

with picture.width(250), responses 320x320.

with picture.width(50), responses 50x50.

with picture.width(100), responses 100x100.

with picture.width(150), responses 160x160.

I think that facebook gives the images which resized variously when the user first add that photo.

What I see here the API for requesting user Image does not support resizing the image requested. It gives the nearest size of image, I think.

True... "picture.type(large)" also gave me a 200x200 - not very large I must say — James, Jan 28 '20 at 07:15

score 1 · Answer 13 · answered Dec 11 '13 at 15:03

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In pictures URL found in the Graph responses (the "http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/" ones), just replace the default "_s.jpg" by "_n.jpg" (? normal size) or "_b.jpg" (? big size) or "_t.jpg" (thumbnail).

Hacakable URLs/REST API make the Web better.

answered Dec 11 '13 at 15:03

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Seems to always give "An error occurred while processing your request. Reference #50.27f74317.14274.604fb0" now unfortunately – Kevin Mar 27 '15 at 02:40

score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Aug 04 '17 at 11:51

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rest-fb users (square image, bigger res.): Connection myFriends = fbClient.fetchConnection("me/friends", User.class, Parameter.with("fields", "public_profile,email,first_name,last_name,gender,picture.width(100).height(100)"));

answered Aug 04 '17 at 11:51

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Apr 16 '13 at 13:20

I think that as of now the only way to get large pictures of friends is to use FQL. First, you need to fetch a list of friends:

https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends

Then parse this list and extract all friends ids. When you have that, just execute the following FQL query:

SELECT id, url FROM profile_pic WHERE id IN (id1, id2) AND width=200 AND height=200

200 here is just an exemplary size, you can enter anything. You should get the following response:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": ..., 
      "url": "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/..."
    }, 
    {
      "id": ..., 
      "url": "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/..."
    }
  ]
}

With each url being the link to a 200x200px image.

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Jul 15 '14 at 07:09

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I have the same problem but i tried this one to solve my problem. it returns large image. It is not the perfect fix but you can try this one.

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/OBJECT_ID/picture?access_token=XXXXX

answered Jul 15 '14 at 07:09

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Just add one more parameter to the request: type=large. Please check my answer below. – born to hula Dec 20 '14 at 00:03

score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Jul 28 '14 at 21:28

try to change the size of the image by changing the pixel size from the url in each json object as follows :

for example I change s480x480 to be s720x720

Before : https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/q71/s480x480/10454308_773207849398282_283493808478577207_n.jpg

After : https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/q71/s720x720/10454308_773207849398282_283493808478577207_n.jpg

score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Nov 30 '16 at 09:08

JS styled variant. Just set enormous large picture width and you will get the largest variant.

FB.api(
  '/' + userId,
  {fields: 'picture.width(2048)'},
  function (response) {
    if (response && !response.error) {
      console.log(response.picture.data.url);
    }
  }
);

score 0 · Answer 19 · answered Apr 26 '17 at 13:22

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You can use full_picture instead of picture key to get full size image.

answered Apr 26 '17 at 13:22

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Gmacv · Answer 20 · 2020-09-26T17:08:04.270

Note: From Graph API v8.0 you must provide the access token for every UserID request you do.

Hitting the graph API:

https://graph.facebook.com/<user_id>/picture?height=1000&access_token=<any_of_above_token>

With firebase:

FirebaseUser user = mAuth.getCurrentUser();
String photoUrl = user.getPhotoUrl() + "/picture?height=1000&access_token=" +
  loginResult.getAccessToken().getToken();

You get the token from registerCallback just like this

       LoginManager.getInstance().registerCallback(mCallbackManager, new FacebookCallback<LoginResult>() {
        @Override
        public void onSuccess(LoginResult loginResult) {
            FirebaseUser user = mAuth.getCurrentUser();
            String photoUrl = user.getPhotoUrl() + "/picture?height=1000&access_token=" + loginResult.getAccessToken().getToken();
        }

        @Override
        public void onCancel() {
            Log.d("Fb on Login", "facebook:onCancel");
        }

        @Override
        public void onError(FacebookException error) {
            Log.e("Fb on Login", "facebook:onError", error);
        }
    });

This is what documentation says:

Beginning October 24, 2020, an access token will be required for all UID-based queries. If you query a UID and thus must include a token:

use a User access token for Facebook Login authenticated requests

use a Page access token for page-scoped requests

use an App access token for server-side requests

use a Client access token for mobile or web client-side requests

We recommend that you only use a Client token if you are unable to use one of the other token types.

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