Can I set a users profile image using the Facebook API?

Question

I\'m looking for a user.setImage call or something to that effect on the Facebook API but I can\'t see anything to achieve this: specifically to overwrite a use

Answer 1

You can upload an image, but you CAN'T set it as one's profile picture. So, the user has to set it as their profile picture themselves. You have to redirect them to the permalink of the uploaded image.

Answer 2

Checkout my answer in this thread: how to set a facebook profile picture using the graph api

You can't set the profile picture, but you can upload it to an album, and then send the user to the "make profile picture"-page for that picture.

Answer 3

Well it seems there's a way now with a new framework extension: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/profile-expression-kit/ios#uploading

Answer 4

No, you cannot.

From the photos.Upload documentation:

However, you cannot upload to a user's profile picture album.

Answer 5

There must be a hidden API because the iphone facebook app does it... Maybe you can discover how by setting a proxy between an iphone and Facebook and decipher it... or the API may be restricted to only Facebook's own apps...

Answer 6

You can redirect the user to the following link where [PID] stands for the id of the desired picture:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=[PID]&makeprofile=1

On this page the user will see the picture and immediately be prompted with a dialog if he wants to set it as his profile picture.