Another option would be to run your avatar comparison checks through the search API instead of the general API. It's still an API hit, but I believe hits to the search API are not counted against your authenticated standard API limits.
On Feb 23, 10:06 am, Shannon Whitley <[email protected]> wrote: > You may want to look at the SPIURL project: > > http://code.google.com/p/spiurl/ > > It provides static urls for each Twitter profile image. > > On Feb 22, 8:43 am, dougw <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I take that back, Ricardo. I looks like this has already been > > officially requested. > > > Be sure to star it if you want to add your vote. > > >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=242 > > > @dougw > > > On Feb 21, 11:12 pm, dougw <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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: > > > addhttp://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?- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -
