Question

I’m having trouble getting the user’s profile pic with the new Facebook SDK. All the answers on here use methods from the old SDK that no longer work.

I’ve tried using the FBProfilePictureView recommended in Facebook’s tutorial, but this picture doesn’t get cached and I don’t think it can be converted into a UIImage.

Can anyone please provide some help? Thanks!

Answer 1

OK, I finally got this using the following:

imageData = [[NSMutableData alloc] init]; // the image will be loaded in here
NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://graph.facebook.com/%@/picture?type=large", user.id];
NSMutableURLRequest *urlRequest =
[NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]
                                     cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                                 timeoutInterval:2];

// Run request asynchronously
NSURLConnection *urlConnection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:urlRequest
                                                                              delegate:self];
if (!urlConnection)
        NSLog(@"Failed to download picture");

Then I used -(void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data and -(void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection to put the image together.