Facebook API: Get all profile pictures

Question

What is the best way to get ALL profile pictures from a given user? What permissions do I need?

I know I can access the main profile pic using https://graph.facebook.com/[uid]/picture, but how do I get the entire album?

Answer 1

how do I get the entire album?

You need https://graph.facebook.com/[uid]/albums?access_token=[AUTH_TOKEN] to get JSON array of all the albums of a user.

You will get three important things from here id - album id, name - album name, and type - album type.

What permissions do I need?

The permission required is user_photos see here

What is the best way to get ALL profile pictures from a given user?

Profile Pictures are under "Profile Pictures" album. To get to profile album, you need to look into albums array (as mentioned previously), iterate through the JSON result-set, until you get an album with name = Profile Pictures and type = profile. Get id of this object. This is the profile pictures album.

Now you can access it similar to you access any other album. That is, https://graph.facebook.com/[ALBUM_ID]/photos?access_token=[AUTH_TOKEN] this will list all the profile pictures of the user ever uploaded.

Hope this helps.

refer: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/