This is true for twitter and facebook profile pictures. But if you want to get 
images from an album (which is Kevins original request) I think you need OAuth. 
Can be wrong here thought.

Achim Breidenbach
Boinx Software

On 23.06.2012, at 03:45, Alastair Leith wrote:

> Same goes for Twitter, you can bypass the OAuth by constructing a URL string. 
> This is snipped form Twitter Docs 
> GET users/profile_image/:screen_name
> 
> GET users/profile_image/:screen_name is an API method that allows you to do 
> an ad-hoc lookup for various image sizes of the avatar, including the 
> original. It's a rate limited method, so you can't use it liberally.
> 
> So http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image?screen_name=usefulDesign
> 
> Returns URL http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/842680915/Image-08_normal.jpg 
> 
> You can construct a string for either the first URL (or second if you know 
> the ID in advance).
> 
> 
> 
> On 23/06/2012, at 2:11 AM, vade wrote:
> 
>> You can query the facebook graph api if you know the user id, and then use a 
>> normal URL fetch to get the image data, like so:
>> 
>> http://graph.facebook.com/<id or facebook name>/picture
>> 
>> http://graph.facebook.com/anton.marini/picture
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 22, 2012, at 3:18 AM, Achim Breidenbach wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Kevin,
>>> 
>>> I think the big challenge here is that Facebook uses OAuth to authenticate 
>>> the caller. I currently see no way to implement this natively in QC.
>>> 
>>> best,
>>> 
>>> Achim Breidenbach
>>> Boinx Software Ltd.
>>> 
>>> On 19.06.2012, at 19:14, Kevin Hoes wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hey Guys,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm looking for a way to display Facebook photo's from a specific album.
>>>> I work with quartz composer because it fits perfectly into vdmx, so i 
>>>> would love to use it now, but how?
>>>> 
>>>> I've loaded the JSON-importer plugin from Climbapp 
>>>> (http://www.climbapp.com/plugin/jsonimporter/) and played around
>>>> a little bit. I want to combine this with the Facebook Graph-API.
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone ever tried combining Facebook with Quartz composer, or has 
>>>> experience with JSON in QC?
>>>> Or has a better direction for me to search in? 
>>>> 
>>>> Thx in advance,
>>>> Kevin
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