Pull twitter profile image

Question

Is there a quick way to pull twitter profile image in PHP or Javascript? I need to get the url of the FULL image (not avatar size). Thanks. Any code sample is good.

Answer 1

So, it's not in the docs (http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name), but it looks like after retrieving the image by specifying any of the three sizes (bigger, normal, mini), you can just remove the suffix before the file extension to get the original image. Hmm... is this safe to use?

For example, this query: api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/rrbrambley

Results in: a2.twimg.com/profile_images/931772958/deformed_cropped_headonly_normal.jpg

If I change this url by removing "_normal" then I get the original image: a2.twimg.com/profile_images/931772958/deformed_cropped_headonly.jpg

I know there are apps that use the original image. This must be the way?