Building Twitter profile image url with Twitter user id

Question

Is there any way of building a profile image url with user id or screen name? I store user ids in database but i don\'t want to store profile image url.

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Answer 1

As of February 20, 2020 it would appear this is impossible. Using the API seems like the only option at the moment. For more info see my question I've opened here: Twitter profile picture images now blocked on most domains

Answer 2

With version 1.1, use http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/XXXXX/afpecvf41m8f0juql78p_normal.png where XXXXX is the User Id

Answer 3

With API 1.1 you can achieve this using these URLs:

• https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=mini
• https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=normal
• https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=bigger
• https://twitter.com/[screen_name]/profile_image?size=original

Official twitter documentation Profile Images and Banners

Example

https://twitter.com/TwitterEng/profile_image?size=original

will redirect to

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/875168599299637248/84CkAq6s.jpg

Answer 4

Introducing the easiest way to get a Twitter Profile Image without using the Twitter API:

Using http://avatars.io/

As @AlexB, @jfred says, it doesn't work at all on mobile devices.

And it's quite a hard way to get a redirected URL using common frameworks like PHP or JavaScript in your single page.

Simply call http://avatars.io/twitter/ruucm at your image tag, like

<img src="https://avatars.io/twitter/ruucm" alt="twt_profile" border="0" width="259"/>

I've tested it with Angular 2+ and it works without any problem.