With something volatile like a URL you shouldn't make any assumptions about its length, -- and in this case, nor should you try to derive any meaning out of the various components of the URL path. There is technically no maximum length to a URL, so for storage purposes I would reserve yourself plenty of characters.
Speculation: the numeric portion of the path appears to be epoch time in seconds, equivalent of: "Sun May 02 16:17:07 -0700 2010 " We do offer an API method to determine the avatar for a user by user_id, however you cannot use them to directly render the image -- only to resolve a user_id to a avatar URL string. See http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:48 AM, yama <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm going to store profile image URL to DB. > This is my image. > "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1272842227/android- > wallpaper4_2560x1600.png" > But, what is the max length of it? > and what does the number, 1272842227 mean? > > Also if possible, I'd like to get profile image by userID, > like, on facebook i can get image by "http://graph.facebook.com/USERID/ > picture". > Is it possible on Twitter also? > > Thank you, > Yama > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
