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phpfacebookthumbnails
posast
posast

Reputation: 65

Facebook thumbnail bigger size

I'm using this to get thumbnail image: https://graph.facebook.com/806640129377133/picture

But this outputs image sized 160 x 160px and I need at least 640 x 360 px. I tried several methods (like this: https://graph.facebook.com/806640129377133/picture?type=large) but nothing works. How can I get bigger thumbnail?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 575

Answers (3)

Naveen Gamage
Naveen Gamage

Reputation: 1884

Thanks @CBroe for the original solution.

Here is the simplest way to get the highest resolution thumbnail of a facebook video.

$request_url ="https://graph.facebook.com/{VIDEO_ID}/?fields=format{picture,width,height}";

$requests = file_get_contents($request_url);

$fb_response = json_decode($requests);

echo end($fb_response->format)->picture; //highest resolution image available

Spent half a day looking for this! Hope I'm saving your time! :D

Upvotes: 0

C3roe
C3roe

Reputation: 96151

The method luschn mentioned is the normal one to ask for pictures with specific dimensions; however here it doesn’t seem to work, specifying larger values for width/height still gives only the 160×160 version.

If you look at the format field however, it shows something like this,

  "format": [
    {
      "embed_html": "<iframe src=…></iframe>", 
      "filter": "130x130", 
      "height": 130, 
      "picture": "…", 
      "width": 130
    }, 
    {
      "embed_html": "<iframe src=…></iframe>", 
      "filter": "native", 
      "height": 400, 
      "picture": "…", 
      "width": 400
    }
  ],

So a bigger version of the picture is available, in this case sized 400×400.

Although it even mentions a filter property in there, I have not yet found a way to get it to spit out the large picture only – but you could loop through this and see which one has the largest width/height yourself.

And if you make that call ?fields=format{picture,width,height}, you will get only the picture, width and height properties (if you want to keep the footprint small and avoid requesting unnecessary data).

Upvotes: 2

andyrandy
andyrandy

Reputation: 73984

This is how to get the picture in the desired resolution:

https://graph.facebook.com/[Graph-ID]/picture?width=121&height=100

It may be a bit bigger, but it will have the set width and height parameters as minimum values.

If it does not work, the image is probably not uploaded in a resolution that is big enough. This works great for profile pictures of profiles (avatars), but in that case it is a video and i doubt that you will get a larger one.

Upvotes: 0

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