Am using Firebase Google Authentication in my App. If the user does not have a profile image, Google used to return a dynamic picture, made up from the user's first or last initial, or digraph where applicable, all depending on each person's name structure.
Eg : If the user name is Jack and he does not have profile picture the
URL will return this image.
But Past few weeks the Url Returned by the method
FirebaseAuth.getInstance().getCurrentUser().getPhotoUrl(); is a 404
page.
Because of this am getting Exceptions in Glide app. I need an image as above as my App is a conversation app, Which will help users to identify easily if they dont have a profile image. Please let me know if google changed the way accessing the image or it stopped permanently. Also provide me any alternatives to get this above image.
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I'm trying to get a list of conversations on the Instagram business account and it works fine. But I cannot find the way how to get a user profile picture (or chat picture) as a chat picture. Also, I tried to get profile_pic via User Profile API and got a problem "(#230) User consent is required to access user profile". My Facebook app is still in development mode. Is there a way to do it?
I stored the instagram image url by calling some api (profile pic, media etc) from last 3 year. I analysed that before 2014 its url like distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com and currently its https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/ (that work fine) but the perviously stored image url with "distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com" are not accessible its gives error Screen shots of s3 error
Please suggest what we need to do to resolve this
I'm working with Gigya's Share Bar javascript api and am having an issue with google plus sharing. I have separate UserAction objects for facebook, twitter and google plus to display different text and linkbacks. I'm adding a media item (image) to the facebook and google plus actions to share that image along with the text. Facebook is sharing the correct image, however, google plus is displaying a different image. I have no idea where this image is coming from. Text and link are correct on both, but the image is frustratingly incorrect.
Has anyone encountered an issue like this? Is there something different that must be done for google plus shares?
Test your target URL with Google's structured data testing tool.
Read the snippet documentation to understand how the Google crawler determines what to use in the share preview.
A little background info is that my team and I developed a website for a Real Estate Agency and I've been assigned the task of setting the image of the currently selected property into facebook's sharing feature.
The webpage for the property is dynamic as there are several listings, so what I've done is select the first image that is loaded on the page and set it to the og:image meta tag.
Now let's say I copy the URL and post it on Facebook, it'll show the correct thumbnail, HOWEVER, it'll also show multiple thumbnails from other listings.
All images on the website are over 200 x 200px and are within an aspect ratio of 3:1.
My question is, how do I tell Facebook to only take my initial image and not grab others while it's as it.
Is there perhaps a SelectSingleImage property that I can apply?
I've already spent more time searching for the answer to this issue than I would have liked, so thanks for any help provided, it's much appreciated.
One method I use sometimes is to recognize Facebook's server and simply provide it with different data. This way you can actually only have one image on the page (as far as Facebook knows).
I don't know anything about vb.net, but here is a simple code sample in PHP. All it does is perform a regular expression on the user agent of the request to match it against the string "facebook".
$isFacebook = false;
if(preg_match("/facebook/",strtolower($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]))) {
$isFacebook = true;
}
Facebook may very well change their user agent signature one day, but for now, I'm pretty sure you'll be safe but keep synced with the Developers Blog and the Roadmap.
It seems that Facebook saved those images in cache for some bizarre reason, but to resolve this issue all I had to do was enter the URL into Facebook's Linter tool which in turn cleared the cache on their server.
I followed the instructions from github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk
and can get Facebook login dialog and get connected. It's for ipad application to get FB info. user name, friend list can be fetched correctly.
I tried to get the profile picture
[_facebook requestWithGraphPath:#"me/picture" andDelegate:self];
and received response:There was a problem communicating with server...
but similar calls like
[_facebook requestWithGraphPath:#"me/posts" andDelegate:self];
[_facebook requestWithGraphPath:#"me/friends" andDelegate:self];
work just fine.
also tried the facebook graph API online test site:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
to use it, first get access token, then tried to get posts, friends, and they are fine.
but when to get picture will take forever, and never return anything.
I did log into my facebook account in a web browser and the profile picture appears just fine.
The Graph API for the user endpoint is described here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/
About the picture connection, it says:
HTTP 302 redirect to URL of the user's profile picture (use ?type=square | small | normal | large to request a different photo).
So what you get is not the typical JSON response, but the picture itself (via the HTTP redirect). You can try that by entering the graph API call into your browser location bar. For example, to see the profile pic of Mark Zuckerberg, try:
http://graph.facebook.com/markzuckerberg/picture