[twitter-dev] Re: HTTPS profile and profile background image URLs are being added to user objects

[themattharris]

Just to follow up on this, the correct additional fields are:
     profile_image_url_https
     profile_background_image_url_https

The original email missed the _url in profile_image_url_https.

Best
@themattharris

On May 16, 3:27 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Later this week we'll start to add two new fields to the user object
> responses from the Streaming and REST APIs (not Search). Due to caching, not
> all objects will have these fields immediately so you should check they are
> present in the response before using them.
>
> The two additional fields are the SSL versions of the profile_image_url and
> the profile_background_image_url. They will be identified in the user object
> by the attributes:
>     profile_image_https
>     profile_background_image_url_https
>
> For example, the @twitter user would look similar to this:
> {
>   "profile_background_tile": false,
>   "name": "Twitter",
>   "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "F6F6F6",
>   "profile_sidebar_border_color": "EEEEEE",
>   "location": "San Francisco, CA",
>   "created_at": "Tue Feb 20 14:35:54 +0000 2007",
>   "profile_image_url": 
> "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png";,
>   "id_str": "783214",
>   "is_translator": false,
>   "profile_link_color": "038543",
>   "follow_request_sent": false,
>   "default_profile": false,
>   "contributors_enabled": true,
>   "favourites_count": 10,
>   "url": "http://twitter.com";,
>   "utc_offset": -28800,
>   "id": 783214,
>   "profile_image_url_https": 
> "https://si2.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png";,
>   "listed_count": 58963,
>   "profile_use_background_image": true,
>   "lang": "en",
>   "protected": false,
>   "profile_text_color": "333333",
>   "followers_count": 5063298,
>   "notifications": false,
>   "geo_enabled": true,
>   "verified": true,
>   "profile_background_color": "ACDED6",
>   "profile_background_image_url_https": 
> "https://si2.twimg.com/images/themes/theme18/bg.gif";,
>   "description": "Always wondering what's happening. ",
>   "time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
>   "statuses_count": 1111,
>   "friends_count": 487,
>   "default_profile_image": false,
>   "profile_background_image_url": 
> "http://a1.twimg.com/images/themes/theme18/bg.gif";,
>   "status": {
>     "coordinates": null,
>     "created_at": "Mon May 16 17:23:59 +0000 2011",
>     "truncated": false,
>     "favorited": false,
>     "id_str": "70177690392592384",
>     "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
>     "text": "Remember in 2009 when @aplusk and @cnn were racing to be the
> 1st to reach a million followers? @ladygaga just reached 10 million. Wow!",
>     "annotations": null,
>     "contributors": [
>       16739704
>     ],
>     "id": 70177690392592384,
>     "retweet_count": "100+",
>     "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
>     "geo": null,
>     "retweeted": false,
>     "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
>     "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
>     "source": "web",
>     "place": null,
>     "in_reply_to_status_id": null
>   },
>   "screen_name": "twitter",
>   "show_all_inline_media": true,
>   "following": true
>
> }
>
> Best,
> @themattharris
> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris

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