Using facebook graph api how to get news feed with large picture size if the feed type is photo?

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Using facebook graph api get News feed: https://graph.facebook.com/me/home?access_token=...

The picture field it returns is all in smallest size, like picture": "https://fbcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/xxxxxx4_s.jpg:

Is there any parameter that I can use to retrieve larger thumbnails? Any way to do this?

I have answered this here hope this will help some one http://stackoverflow.com/a/24681025/1030813 — Rajnish Mishra, Jul 10 '14 at 15:54
This is the real answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/29009631/347456 (from ClockworkOrange) — Derek, Apr 16 '15 at 06:31

score 43 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '15 at 12:19

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You can add custom field list for returning object.

?fields=full_picture

will return full size image.

answered Mar 12 '15 at 12:19

ClockworkOrange

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the fields parameter is great, you can filter out the result to show only what you really need like: fields=full_picture,message,link,type,name,description,from – amarkovits Sep 11 '15 at 07:37
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How to get width and height of the full_picture in the request ifself – Jagadesh Seeram Nov 05 '15 at 14:11
`full_picture` returns image with max width = 720p when in reality the original image can be bigger. – Jānis Jun 29 '16 at 14:13

score 17 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '14 at 06:42

I have found that swapping the characters at the end of the file URL to _n, _b or _o no longer work.

Facebook has released graph API 2.0 which can be used to solve this problem.

Here is the solution:

1. Get the object_id from the post you want the image from

In every Post object there maybe an object_id field. This field only appears if the post has a picture of video (i.e. type = 'photo' or 'video')

2. Make a GET request to https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/{object_id}?access_token={token}

e.g. if object_id = 123 and your access token = abc then the URL to call becomes https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/123?access_token=abc

This API call gets more information about the given object_id. Since the object_id in this case represents a photo, the response will contain the various versions of the photo.

The response this request can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/photo

3. Take the largest dimensioned image from the images field

The response from the API call has a field names images. This contains small to large sizes of the image. Just take the largest one.

This is the correct way rather than editing CDN URLs or editing "_n or _s". Great answer with example, works perfectly well with Graph API v2.3 — Never Quit, May 14 '15 at 07:31

score 13 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 20 '14 at 10:19

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Along with picture field, there is an object_id field. Put this id in below url:

https://graph.facebook.com/{object_id}/picture

This will return actual size image. Or you can write this for different image sizes.

https://graph.facebook.com/{object_id}/picture?type=normal

Where type can be : thumbnail, normal, album.

answered Mar 20 '14 at 10:19

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replacing _s with _n and _t with _b also works, but it is not a good practise. – Yawar Mar 21 '14 at 06:28
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this is the best solution for now, thnx a lot :) – E_X Jul 28 '14 at 22:09
Can't find the reference in FB documentation. Any link? – tibo Nov 17 '14 at 02:58
You can use any Id with the in this URL for pictures [https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.2], but post id didn't work because all posts don't have photos. So posts with photos have this object_id node and you can use this to get the picture. I didn't find any specific documentation about this just found out by doing hit and try. And at last this worked – Yawar Nov 17 '14 at 06:23

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 31 '13 at 20:43

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I'm currently searching for the same thing. I know you can swap _s for _n at the end and get a larger size... but I haven't figured out how to have the api return the larger size on its own.

answered Jul 31 '13 at 20:43

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no longer working. It use to work all the times but now it is often not working – tibo Nov 17 '14 at 02:57

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 04 '13 at 03:19

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you can make a extra request with the [object_id] of the post entry

$res = $facebook->api('/yourid', 'GET', $params);

edited Oct 04 '13 at 03:19

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answered Oct 04 '13 at 03:01

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 29 '13 at 10:21

Even swapping _s for _l or _b might result in a larger thumbnail.
But at times it results in invalid request or a blank image rather a white dot on a dark background.
Ideally the api should specify crop, thumb, normal, and large (like on twitter network)with every picture object on network.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 19:02

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it returns the smallest size i.e., 130x130. to get the bigger size try replacing that with

320x320

480x480

600x600

720x720

answered Jul 08 '14 at 19:02

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Did not worked for me to change the w=130&h=130 with these numbers (API v 2.5) – Balazs Nemeth Nov 13 '15 at 10:16

Using facebook graph api how to get news feed with large picture size if the feed type is photo?

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1. Get the object_id from the post you want the image from

2. Make a GET request to https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/{object_id}?access_token={token}

3. Take the largest dimensioned image from the images field

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