I have a problem on video search. With a French IP, everything works well, but with Ireland IP no.
I try :
https://api.dailymotion.com/user/xm44zy/videos?search=RC%20Lens on French IP -> 500+ results
https://api.dailymotion.com/user/xm44zy/videos?search=RC%20Lens on Ireland IP -> 1 result
Maybe Video access error (DM007 Video geo-restricted by its owner) https://developer.dailymotion.com/api#access-error ?
No because https://api.dailymotion.com/video/x6f8qjq works well. Not found on search query (with Ireland IP) but I have access to the detail of the video
an idea ?
Thanks.
The API will always returns information about a specific video if you request data with its own resource URI (like: https://api.dailymotion.com/video/ID), even if the video is restricted in your country.
However, when using listings (i.e. asking for a video list, or when searching for videos based on search terms), the list will automatically exclude videos which can't be played in your country.
You can know if a video is geoblocked in your country using the "geoblocking" field:
https://developer.dailymotion.com/api/internal#video-geoblocking-field.
In your case, your example is geo-restricted everywhere else France, that's why it won't show in search results (or any listings): https://api.dailymotion.com/video/x6f8qjq?fields=id,title,geoblocking
returns: "geoblocking": [
"allow",
"fr"
]
This means you can only watch it ( and appears in search results ) in France
Is there any way of building a profile image url with user id or screen name? I store user ids in database but i don't want to store profile image url.
edit:
I don't want to make a api call too. I want to put user_id inside a url like
<img src="https://twitter.com/users/profile_pic?user_id=123"> Is there a url to do this?
With API 1.1 you can achieve this using these URLs:
https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=mini
https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=normal
https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=bigger
https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=original
Official twitter documentation Profile Images and Banners
Example
https://twitter.com/TwitterEng/profile_image?size=original
will redirect to
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/875168599299637248/84CkAq6s.jpg
As of June 2020, both the accepted answer and avatars.io no longer work. Here are two alternatives:
unavatar.io
(formerly unavatar.now.sh)
Unavatar can get pictures from quite a few different places including Twitter. Replace [screen_name] in the URL below with the Twitter username you want.
<img src="https://unavatar.io/twitter/[screen_name]" />
For example:
<img src="https://unavatar.io/twitter/jack" width="100" height"100" />
If the demo above ever stops working, it's probably because unavatar.io is no longer available.
Unavatar is open source though, so if it does go down, you can deploy it yourself from the GitHub repo — it even has "Deploy to Vercel/Heroku" buttons. The code to fetch Twitter avatars specifically is here, so you could also use that as part of your own backend.
twivatar.glitch.me
⚠️ As of July 2021 this option no longer works, see the one above instead!
If you want an alternative, you can also use twivatar.glitch.me. Replace [screen_name] in the URL below with the Twitter username you want.
<img src="https://twivatar.glitch.me/[screen_name]" />
For example:
<img src="https://twivatar.glitch.me/jack" width="100" height"100" />
If the demo above ever stops working, it's probably because twivatar.glitch.me is no longer available.
By the way, I didn't build either of these services, they were both made by other people.
Introducing the easiest way to get a Twitter Profile Image without using the Twitter API:
Using http://avatars.io/
As #AlexB, #jfred says, it doesn't work at all on mobile devices.
And it's quite a hard way to get a redirected URL using common frameworks like PHP or JavaScript in your single page.
Simply call http://avatars.io/twitter/ruucm at your image tag, like
<img src="https://avatars.io/twitter/ruucm" alt="twt_profile" border="0" width="259"/>
I've tested it with Angular 2+ and it works without any problem.
As of February 20, 2020 it would appear this is impossible. Using the API seems like the only option at the moment. For more info see my question I've opened here: Twitter profile picture images now blocked on most domains
Based on the answer by #Cristiana214
The following PHP snippet can be used to make the https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=normal trick work on mobile.
Due to twitters redirect to the mobile version of the site links such as https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=normal get broken on mobile devices
So the script gets the redirect response (to the user avatar) extracts the address then redirects the page itself
if (!isset($_GET['id'])) $_GET['id'] = 'twitter';
$urlget = curl_init();
curl_setopt($urlget, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://twitter.com/' . $_GET['id'] . '/profile_image?size=normal');
curl_setopt($urlget, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($urlget, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$res = curl_exec($urlget);
preg_match_all("/location: (.*)/", $res, $found);
header('Location: ' . $found[1][0]);
So this could be accesses as twitteravatar.php?id=twitter which (at time of writing) reloads to https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/767879603977191425/29zfZY6I_normal.jpg
Not pretty but works.
You can get it using the users/show method of the Twitter API -- it does exactly what you described. You give it a the ID or the screen name, and it returns a bunch of data, including profile_image_url.
I found such a solution with C#:
public string Text_toTextFinder(string text, string Fromhere, string Here)
{
int start = text.IndexOf(Fromhere) + Fromhere.Length;
int finish = text.IndexOf(Here, start);
return text.Substring(start, finish - start);
}
string getPhotoURL(string UserName, string size ="x96")
{
using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
client.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent] = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2";
string htmlCode = client.DownloadString("https://twitter.com/" + UserName);
return Text_toTextFinder(Text_toTextFinder(htmlCode, "<td class=\"avatar\">", "</td>"), "src=\"", "\"").Replace("normal",size);
}
}
For use:
MessageBox.Show(getPhotoURL("screen_name")); //size = 96x96
MessageBox.Show(getPhotoURL("screen_name","normal"));
MessageBox.Show(getPhotoURL("screen_name","200x200"));
MessageBox.Show(getPhotoURL("screen_name","400x400"));
There is no way to do that. In fact Twitter doesn't provide a url to do that like facebook does ( https://graph.facebook.com//?fields=picture)
The issue is report but the status is: 'WontFix', take a look:
https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=&colspec=ID%20Stars%20Type%20Bug%20Status%20Summary%20Opened%20Modified%20Component&groupby=&sort=&id=242#makechanges
Well I'm using a tricky way via PHP Dom Parser
include('simple_html_dom.php');
$html = file_get_html('http://twitter.com/mnckry');
$img = array();
foreach($html->find('img.size73') as $e)
$img[] = $e->src;
foreach($html->find('.profile-header-inner') as $e)
$img[] = str_replace("')", "", str_replace("url('", "", $e->{'data-background-image'}));
echo $img[0];//Avatar
echo "<br>";
echo end($img);//ProfileBG
This will give you something like this;
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000487958092/e04a191de329fcf8d000ca03073ad594_bigger.png
to get 2 other size; for big version remove, "_bigger" for smaller version replace "_bigger" with "_normal"
With version 1.1, use
http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/XXXXX/afpecvf41m8f0juql78p_normal.png
where XXXXX is the User Id
Does anyone know why the picture attribute is not working in following Facebook UI call?
function postToWallUsingFBUi()
{
var data=
{
method: 'stream.publish',
message: "Posted using FB.ui and picture.",
display: 'iframe',
caption: "Caption",
name: "Name",
//ver 1 picture: 'http://www.somedomain.com/albums/s339/rockaja/fb-520.png',
//ver 2 picture: '#Url.Action("Action", "Controller", new { PageId = Model.PageTabId }, Request.Url.Scheme)',
picture: 'https://localhost/MyVirtualDirectory/Controller/Action/283659015078395',
link: "http://www.mydomain.com/", // Go here if user click the picture
description: "Description field",
actions: [{ name: 'action_links text!', link: 'http://www.mydomain.com' }]
}
FB.ui(data, onPostToWallCompleted);
}
As you can see the picture attribute uses a picture from localhost. If i paste this URL into the browsers's Address field, i get the picture as expected.
I also commented out other two versions:
version 1 is working properly as expected, but
version 2 is not working (this is an ASP.NET MVC call, but that fact does not affect the result).
May be it is due to the fact that i request a localhost-ed picture?!
I have never worked on FB API so take my suggestion with a pinch of salt.
Based on my understanding of how Facebook works, whatever pictures you share on user's wall go into FB's data store first and are always pulled from that store.
Here, The Facebook API may be downloading the picture from the URL you have provided and push it into it's own store before publishing it on user's walls. When you use a localhost url, then the call to download the picture would obviously fail.
There must be another version of the API where you should be able to send the picture content as byte array. If there is, then you can load the picture from disk yourself and send the byte array in the API
In Facebook's documentation it says you can find the ID from a URL, and that used to be the case. It doesn't appear to be true anymore.
This example is straight from Facebook's API Documentation:
--------------FACEBOOK DOCS---------------------
The "ids" query parameter also accepts URLs. This is useful for finding IDs of URLs in the Open Graph. For example: https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/
But when you click on that link it gives you:
{
"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/": {
"id": "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/",
"shares": 18226,
"comments": 7
}
}
Which does NOT include the real Facebook ID for this example URL. If I go to the debugger and enter this URL I can find the ID, which is: 380728101301
So how can I find the ID without using the Open Graph Debugger? I need to be able to get IDs through the code on my site, and can't manually visit the debugger every time.. anyone know how to do this now?
Thanks very much!
There is one possibility with FQL:
SELECT url,site,id FROM object_url WHERE url = 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500';
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/
Using the using the Facebook Graph API/SDK for iOS I'm getting the users News Feed with https://graph.facebook.com/me/home. Some of the news feed items return a "story":"xxx" in the JSON response, if the stories contain an image it will be accompanied by a "picture" element. The picture element always returns the small image size.
Here is an example:
"id":"100000238965505_364153823602580",
"from":{
"name":"Cristine Candelaria",
"id":"100000238965505"
},
"story":"Cristine Candelaria was tagged in Arielen Magno Bismar's photo.",
"picture":"http:\/\/photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc7\/431768_2610303545476_1491618385_31927362_2089838362_s.jpg",
"link":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=2610303545476&set=at.2610291065164.2111576.1491618385.100000238965505&type=1",
"icon":"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/v1\/yz\/r\/StEh3RhPvjk.gif",
"type":"photo",
"object_id":"2610303545476",
"application":{
"name":"Photos",
"id":"2305272732"
}
I've tried using what Facebook recommends in the API https://graph.facebook.com/2610303545476/picture, however this always returns a false in the JSON response and I've also tried just getting the feed details via [Graph API URL]/100000238965505_364153823602580 (sorry I can only post 2 hyperlinks). This does not yield any extra usefully information.
I've discovered that if you manipulated the end of the "photo" element URL and simply switch the _s to _n you will get the normal image size.
My question is what's the proper way to get the image and the text associated with that image (ex: first time at the super bowl...) for a News Feed using the Graph API?