How can I get a link to a Facebook or Twitter avatar by username?
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For Facebook the image is publically availible and can be seen at: http://graph.facebook.com/username/picture
For example, here is mine: http://graph.facebook.com/totten/picture
You will notice that the url above actually gets forwarded to another caching url. Don’t save the long url (http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/….) save the short http://graph.facebook.com/ one. The other, longer url, could change and break.
If you want to display that url in a web page you just need to do the following:
Which gets you: http://graph.facebook.com/totten/picture
Thats it, no complicated API or authentication is needed.
For twitter you need to use the api: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/w/page/22554755/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-users%C2%A0show