Question

I am developing a script where I update the name and profile picture of users every other week or so (to stay updated with their information).

I need to figure out how to use Facebook’s API to get the name and profile picture of a user using their facebook ID.

I’m using PHP.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can use the /userid call and filter for name and picture.

https://graph.facebook.com/the_user_id?fields=name,picture

Returns

{
   "name": "First LastingName",
   "id": "the_user_id",
   "picture": "The image.jpg"
}

If you are using the PHP SDK you can do

$user = $facebook->api('/the_user_id');
$name = $user['name'];
$picture = $user['picture'];

For more information on user see http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/