Facebook Graph API will not give me picture data.

Question

Using PHP 5.2.11 and the new facebook graph code...

If I call $facebook->api("/me");

I get a proper response: array 'id' => string '10700210' (length=8) 'name' => string 'Brandon Renfrow' (length=19) 'first_name' => string 'Brandon' (length=7) 'middle_name' => string '✫' (length=3) 'last_name' => string 'Renfrow' (length=7) 'link' => string 'http://www.facebook.com/brenfrow' (length=32) 'about' => string 'Spiritual birthday: 1/22/2005' (length=29) ... ...

But if I call $facebook->api("/me/picture");

I always get a response of: null

Does anyone know why this is?

Answer 1

I just went to my "/me/picture" in the browser and it redirected me to a static image on one of Facebook's CDN servers. Perhaps the redirect is throwing a wrench in your api call.

Answer 2

Well I guess the best answer I've found is to call http://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID?fields=picture to get the picture URL. Its to bad they don't document things like this on their API especially when its obvious this is broken for so many people.