Marco Pracucci

Facebook Open Graph - Query image by username no longer available

by Marco Pracucci Comments

Until yesterday you were able to query Facebook Open Graph to get an user’s image by username. Starting today it’s no longer available, but you can still query it by ID.

Doesn’t work anymore

https://graph.facebook.com/marco.pracucci/picture

{
    "error": {
        "message": "(#803) Cannot query users by their username (marco.pracucci)",
        "type": "OAuthException",
        "code": 803
    }
}

Does work

https://graph.facebook.com/1376887081/picture

Tip: how to get the biggest image available

Bonus: if you’re wondering how to fetch to biggest image available, you can simply add width and height parameters. Facebook will return the biggest image available, honoring input max width and height.

https://graph.facebook.com/1376887081/picture?width=2000&height=2000

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