How to detect default avatar on facebook?

Question

How to detect default avatar on the link like this: https://graph.facebook.com/\'.$id.\'/picture?type=large? Is it the only way to get avatars (male/female) fr

Answer 1

You can use the redirect=false parameter:

https://graph.facebook.com/naitik/picture?redirect=false

Then facebook's responce is json and contains this data:

{
   "data": {
      "url": "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/157337_5526183_369516251_q.jpg",
      "is_silhouette": false
   }
}

You can use the is_silhouette option to detect if the photo is default one.

You can read more at: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/using-pictures/