Question

I am developing an app that will use the profile picture of user. I am trying to save the profile picture of the user on my server for manipulation.

When I use https://graph.facebook.com/[uid]/picture?type=large it will not work because there is some sort of redirection that facebook does before serving the pic.

Can anyone help me with this issue? I am using PHP.

Answer 1

If I understand your issue correctly, you are probably using file_get_contents to fetch the image but you are just getting a text response back, because file_get_contents does not automatically follow the redirect the text response contains?

A quick-and-dirty solution is to parse the text response yourself to find the url of the actual image:

@file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/'.$userid.'/picture?type=large');
foreach ($http_response_header as $rh) if (substr($rh, 0, 10)=='Location: ') $imgurl=substr($rh, 10);

Then you should have the actual image url that you can process as needed.