[twitter-dev] Re: How to Keep Profile Image Urls up to date
There is nothing from the API that tells you a user's image has changed. You can either refresh a user's image every time they login, or you can create a periodic job to update all your users profile images On Jul 10, 10:28 am, Francis Shanahan francisshana...@gmail.com wrote: When a user visits my site (tweetarun.com) I make a call to grab their latest profile data and store their profileImageUrl in my database. This url is used on my site to display their profile image on a Members widget which is accessible to all visitors, not just authenticated twitter users. If the user changes their profile image on Twitter.com, my site has no knowledge of this other than the cached Profile Image url is now broken. Is there some method I'm missing to keep these image urls up to date? -fshttp://tweetarun.com
[twitter-dev] Re: How to Keep Profile Image Urls up to date
It's hard to say. For my application (http://tweetsort.com), I have it updating when the users logins in. It automatically updates their information based on their last tweet. I'm not sure if there is a better way - but it works for me. On Jul 10, 1:28 pm, Francis Shanahan francisshana...@gmail.com wrote: When a user visits my site (tweetarun.com) I make a call to grab their latest profile data and store their profileImageUrl in my database. This url is used on my site to display their profile image on a Members widget which is accessible to all visitors, not just authenticated twitter users. If the user changes their profile image on Twitter.com, my site has no knowledge of this other than the cached Profile Image url is now broken. Is there some method I'm missing to keep these image urls up to date? -fshttp://tweetarun.com
[twitter-dev] Re: How to Keep Profile Image Urls up to date
Right now I update the profile image every time the user comes back to the site but obviously I'm getting broken images in the meantime. I'll write a job to update these as JDG has mentioned but it certainly is not ideal. The biggest problem has been the Green Overlay and most recently LiveStrong overlay memes. Not sure why Twitter doesn't just abstract the profile image with some standard URL scheme. -fs On Jul 10, 6:45 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if twitter's site supports all HTTP calls, but you could make a HEAD call to the profile img url you have stored and if you get a 404, could make another call to their profile to get the new image url. It's an extra HTTP call, sure, but you'd be most liable to get the correct information that way. Doug / Matt / other Twitter staff member, do you know if the web servers that host the images (amazonaws or twimg) support HEAD calls? On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:28, Francis Shanahan francisshana...@gmail.comwrote: When a user visits my site (tweetarun.com) I make a call to grab their latest profile data and store their profileImageUrl in my database. This url is used on my site to display their profile image on a Members widget which is accessible to all visitors, not just authenticated twitter users. If the user changes their profile image on Twitter.com, my site has no knowledge of this other than the cached Profile Image url is now broken. Is there some method I'm missing to keep these image urls up to date? -fs http://tweetarun.com -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: How to Keep Profile Image Urls up to date
They've mentioned before that they don't want to do this to prevent harvesting. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 22:00, Francis Shanahan francisshana...@gmail.comwrote: Right now I update the profile image every time the user comes back to the site but obviously I'm getting broken images in the meantime. I'll write a job to update these as JDG has mentioned but it certainly is not ideal. The biggest problem has been the Green Overlay and most recently LiveStrong overlay memes. Not sure why Twitter doesn't just abstract the profile image with some standard URL scheme. -fs On Jul 10, 6:45 pm, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if twitter's site supports all HTTP calls, but you could make a HEAD call to the profile img url you have stored and if you get a 404, could make another call to their profile to get the new image url. It's an extra HTTP call, sure, but you'd be most liable to get the correct information that way. Doug / Matt / other Twitter staff member, do you know if the web servers that host the images (amazonaws or twimg) support HEAD calls? On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:28, Francis Shanahan francisshana...@gmail.comwrote: When a user visits my site (tweetarun.com) I make a call to grab their latest profile data and store their profileImageUrl in my database. This url is used on my site to display their profile image on a Members widget which is accessible to all visitors, not just authenticated twitter users. If the user changes their profile image on Twitter.com, my site has no knowledge of this other than the cached Profile Image url is now broken. Is there some method I'm missing to keep these image urls up to date? -fs http://tweetarun.com -- Internets. Serious business. -- Internets. Serious business.
