Android: How to get facebook user image using access_token

Question

I am working on an application that need to login with facebook. This is the first time when i am integrating Fb API in my application. I have start from Getting St

Answer 1

Finally, after a long search, i got the way to access login user's image by using only access_token https://graph.facebook.com/me/picture?access_token=<your_access_token_here>
thanks to @Jess for your valuable answer!

Answer 2

So after messing around with the facebook graph apis for a bit, I have found that you can get the profile pic in two ways:

1. Use this as the profile pic url by substituting the user id: https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/picture?return_ssl_resources=1

2. Using the access token: https://graph.facebook.com/me/picture?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

Hope this is helpful.

Answer 3

You don't need an access token to retrieve a user's profile image. Just issue a http GET request on http://graph.facebook.com/YOUR_ID_HERE/picture, so for example:

http://graph.facebook.com/4/picture gets you user id 4's picture, no access token needed.

EDIT:

To fetch the picture without knowing their fb id but with their access token, just execute a GET request on /me?fields=name,picture and you will receive a response with the URL to their profile picture.

See Graph API Tool example:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=me%3Ffields%3Dname%2Cpicture