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Asked: 2026-06-05T13:43:03+00:00

There is some contradiction in the api documentation: on one location: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/responses/user on another

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There is some contradiction in the api documentation:

on one location:
https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/responses/user

photo should contain "URL of a profile picture for this user.

on another location, trying it out:
https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=users/self

photo is an object, with two parts

https://irs3.4sqi.net/img/user/HBVX4T2WQOGG20FE.png is returning an Internal Error.

How can I get the profile pic of a user?

A couple of days ago the endpoint returned a string with the profile pic, now it has changed, but I can’t find any documentation on that.

Edit:

Also tried adding my consumer_key between the prefix and suffix like:

https://irs3.4sqi.net/img/user/CONSUMER_KEY/HBVX4T2WQOGG20FE.png

Also gave an Internal Error.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This was part of a change foursquare did to the API on June 9th.
    Note that AK from foursquare announced that they will be making a lot of changes, some not fully documented in the coming time, see his post here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/foursquare-api/MpNpdO5zARU

    To fix, lower the ‘v’ to before 20120609, using 20120608 will work. It returns the following URL: https://is0.4sqi.net/userpix_thumbs/HBVX4T2WQOGG20FE.png for your user 🙂

    Another way to fix is to use the [prefix]/original/[suffix] and then you can use the newer version (>20120609)

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