How to get full-size profile picture in Facebook's PHP SDK?

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How to get one's full-size profile picture in Facebook's PHP SDK? I know about the ?type=large method, but result is only 200px wide.

Possible duplicate of - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8574759/getting-full-size-profile-picture — Rikesh, Aug 31 '12 at 12:32

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '12 at 12:41

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If ?type=large is only returning a 200px wide image, then that is the largest one Facebook has.

You can scale the image larger by specifying the width and height in the query string: ?width=300&height=300 and Facebook will return a scaled-up version of the image. See this blog post for more info.

The limit on this seems to be 75% larger than the size of the largest stored image Facebook has. For example, my large profile pic is ~180px. If I request a width or height > 312, I get a 312px image back.

answered Aug 31 '12 at 12:41

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Wow, I didn't know about the width and height parameters! This is probably something I need! Thanks! – Rafał Swacha Aug 31 '12 at 12:55
They were just announced ~10 days ago. Follow the developer blog. There are new features released every week. – cpilko Aug 31 '12 at 13:02

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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http://graph.facebook.com/YOURNAME/picture

Replace YOURNAME with name of the user you want to get the photo of.

See also: Facebook API - How do I get a Facebook user's profile image through the Facebook API (without requiring the user to "Allow" the application)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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answered Aug 31 '12 at 12:40

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I know about this, but the result is too small. – Rafał Swacha Aug 31 '12 at 12:54

How to get full-size profile picture in Facebook's PHP SDK?

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