http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi?size=bigger
we will document this endpoint this week. On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:34 PM, WBC <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > e.g.http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi > > > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:41 PM, WBC <[email protected] > >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 > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
