Mini, normal, and bigger are work but what about original? Abraham
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 13:37, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
