Ricardo, It's not possible through the API as it stands, and has been brought up before as a shortcoming. I didn't find any duplicate issues in my searches. Sounds like an enhancement defect to report: add http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry
@dougw On Feb 21, 5:28 pm, Ricardo Sousa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working as the developer of a Wordpress plugin that pulls twittar > avatars into wordpress comments. What it actually does is to pull the > avatar img each time user comments but the problem is that users > change the avatar often so we need to make API calls very often. > > The default syntax url for Twitter profile images is: > > http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/80319404/av... > (avatars is the name of the image in user computer) > > The problem is is that "avatars" change whenever users change avatar > making it impossible to store the user's avatar url in DB and forcing > me to do a lot of API calls in order to get the most recent image. > What i want is to be able to call directly the user profile image > whitout need to call API first. Any ideas? > > My question is if there's another syntax which is independent from the > image name? Something like: > > http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/80319404/bi... > > If yes: How can i do that without need to call the API on each page > load (which is huge and terrible)? > > if no: is that planned?
