Hi Gabrielu,
I was going to add, you can always do something on the client for *one
off *images.
For example, here is a javascript function using jQuery to fetch user
object. Keep in mind, rate limits are 150, so if you expect your visitors to
go way over that, then this is a bad way to go, but if you happen to have
something where they are going to look at a handful of image, this can be
useful.
function fetchUserProfile(userName) {
$.ajax({
url: "http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/
"+profileName+".json?cursor=-1&callback=?",
cache: false,
success: function(data) {
// this variable below will container the URL to the twitter avatar
var profile_image_url = data.profile_image_url;
}
});
}
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Taylor Singletary <
taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote:
> My recommendations:
>
> If you just have a member id or screen name and want only the current
> profile image, use GET /users/profile_image to get the current URL as the
> return, then cache that value and use it as your image src.
>
> If you are interested in more information about the user than just the
> profile photo, and you're starting with a member id or screen name, use bulk
> user lookup: GET users/lookup or GET users/show for the user in question.
>
> If you are simply rendering tweets and want to render an avatar next to the
> tweet, just use the profile image that's embedded in the user object for the
> tweet you're rendering. It's "right" more often than not.
>
> It comes down to context: what data you're starting with and what you're
> wanting to do with it.
>
> Taylor
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:57 PM, gabrielu <gabri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So what's the right way to get user profile image?
>>
>> On Sep 30, 10:30 am, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote:
>> > Every image you load using this method counts as 1 API request. So, yes,
>> > that's bad.
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> > On 9/30/10 11:48 AM, Jayawi Perera wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > Hi all,
>> >
>> > > I have a page in which there is a listing of past tweets. In this
>> > > page, I want to display the author's profile image next to the tweet.
>> > > I've come across the following:
>> > >http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name
>> >
>> > > My question is, is it wrong to use this as the src within an img tag?
>> > > I raise the above question because of the following mentioned on that
>> > > page:
>> > > "This method should only be used by application developers to lookup
>> > > or check the profile image URL for a user. This method must not be
>> > > used as the image source URL presented to users of your application."
>> >
>> > > Thank you for your help.
>> >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Jayawi~
>>
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