Thanks Raffi... I knew there had to be something more simple! Is there a way to get the bigger image? I can parse the HTML and just replace _normal with _bigger of course... Anyway, cheers.
On Apr 18, 8:50 am, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > e.g.http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:41 PM, WBC <wooden.brain.conce...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > Hello all, please forgive a newbie here. > > > I would like to accomplish one simple task as described in the > > title: get the URL of a user profile picture by user name, in the > > context of a Mac application. At this time (and in the foreseeable > > future) I have no interest in doing more with the API(s). > > > I do not want to ask users to authenticate with their own accounts for > > this simple purpose, and I don't want to run into an application-based > > rate-limit for my distributed, desktop application. I do plan to > > cache and honestly I can't imagine more than 50 calls a WEEK per IP > > for this purpose. > > > I assume based on this from the FAQ: > > > "The REST API does account- and IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated > > API calls are charged to the authenticating user's limit while > > unauthenticated API calls are deducted from the calling IP address' > > allotment." > > > ... that the user's IP is the one "deducted" if unauthenticated, which > > is perfectly fine. > > > But the search API requires authentication: > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/users/search.xml?q=username > > > I've spent quite a lot of time trying to figure this out already, so a > > simple "yes, you can do it and here's the URL" would be very kind. (I > > can easily accomplish what I want just by parsing some HTML... but I > > thought I'd try to be legit about it ;-) > > > -- > > Subscription settings: > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi
