Facebook iOS SDK and swift: how get user's profile picture

Question

i have integrated Facebook sdk in Xcode 6 (with swift). During the login i request the public_profile permission:

FBSession.openActiveSessionWithReadPermissions(         


        

Answer 1

If you want to get the picture in the same request as the rest of the users information you can do it all in one graph request. It's a little messy but it beats making another request.

A more Swift 3 approach

let request = FBSDKGraphRequest(graphPath: "me", parameters: ["fields": "id, name, first_name, last_name, email, picture.type(large)"])
let _ = request?.start(completionHandler: { (connection, result, error) in
    guard let userInfo = result as? [String: Any] else { return } //handle the error

    //The url is nested 3 layers deep into the result so it's pretty messy
    if let imageURL = ((userInfo["picture"] as? [String: Any])?["data"] as? [String: Any])?["url"] as? String {
        //Download image from imageURL
    }
})

Swift 2

let request = FBSDKGraphRequest(graphPath: "me", parameters: ["fields": "id, name, first_name, last_name, email, picture.type(large)"])
request.startWithCompletionHandler({ (connection, result, error) in
    let info = result as! NSDictionary
    if let imageURL = info.valueForKey("picture")?.valueForKey("data")?.valueForKey("url") as? String {
        //Download image from imageURL
    }
})