Get full sized picture from facebook graph API

Question

I'm using the graph api endpoint /PAGE_ID/posts to get all posts from a facebook page. Now I want the full sized image from these posts. The picture property of the returned objects gives me only a cropped version of that image.

With the object id from these posts and the API endpoint /OBJECT_ID/picture I get the only the small, normal and album sized version of the picture. But with a little modification to the URL I managed to get the full sized image.

Example

This URL:
https://graph.facebook.com/10152843929471041/picture

redirects to this URL:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/s720x720/10838228_10152843929471041_5251228402651650719_n.jpg

I removed the 720x720 from that URL to get this URL:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/s/10838228_10152843929471041_5251228402651650719_n.jpg

which is finally the full sized image.

I think, that I can achieve this modification with a regex pattern. But now is my question, how I can get the URL after the redirect from the original URL (the first one).

Any ideas or simpler solutions?

Answer 1

This is how you can get larger pictures:

/OBJECT-ID/picture?width=500&height=500

Or:

/OBJECT-ID/picture?type=large

Also take a look at answer in this thread: Facebook Graph API : get larger pictures in one request

Edit: As this does not seem to work with Object IDs, you can just grab the image from this response:

https://graph.facebook.com/10152843929471041

Look out for the "images" array.