Construct Profile Picture URL

Question

Most social apis have a way to construct a url to the user's profile picture using their user_id or username. Any chance foursquare has something similar or plans to?

http://graph.facebook.com/702855/picture

http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/akdotcom.png

oh yeah... uhm, we were going to add that. Dusting off an old internal thread.... — akdotcom, Dec 02 '11 at 22:36
i am facing the same problem is there any way for doing it in Foursquare... — ios developer, Jan 09 '12 at 05:45

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 25 '12 at 17:16

I had the same problem.

Since the last update (changes from June 9th) every user's pic can be constructed via an api call: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=users/self

which returns something like this:

photo: {
    prefix: "https://irs3.4sqi.net/img/user/"
    suffix: "/HBVX4T2WQOGG20FE.png"
}

Take the two parts and put e.g. 'original' between them:

[prefix]/original/[suffix]

which gives you the url to the profile pic: https://irs3.4sqi.net/img/user/original/HBVX4T2WQOGG20FE.png

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '16 at 19:16

foursquare provides the URL prefix and suffix, example:

photo: {
  prefix: "https://irs3.4sqi.net/img/user/"
  suffix "/21325770-GWARVMMU2R5QLN04.jpg"
}

you can mount it as follows:

[prefix]/original/[suffix] -> for original image
[prefix]/200/[suffix] -> for squared 200x200 image
[prefix]/200x100/[suffix] -> for 200x100 image

exemple

https://irs3.4sqi.net/img/user/200/21325770-GWARVMMU2R5QLN04.jpg

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '12 at 01:19

0

At this time, there's no way to construct a profile photo from just the username/user ID.

Comments on this question by Akshay indicate that they might some day support this.

I'm answering here to get this off of the "unanswered" list.

answered Jan 21 '12 at 01:19

Jeff Wilcox

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