How to get the bigger profile picture of a facebook page

Question

I am getting an image from facebook by the URL: http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=d282e1e7c86c9270232f97ddc737df39&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Fi52.tinypic.com%2F2q0ixzl.jpg

Now, I want a bigger version, like 200 by 200. Is there a URL for that? If not, how can I convert this image to a larger size?

Answer 1

Generally if you want to collect the profile pic of a user or page, the format for the icon size picture is:

http://graph.facebook.com/[page id/profile id]/picture

and for the large picture:

http://graph.facebook.com/[page id/profile id]/picture?type=large

EDIT Points to note: If the image stored on the facebook servers is less than the 200*200 dimensions, you would get the image as the highest resolution avaiable eg: 128*160. Either you can resize it using the GD library.

AND ONE MORE THING

Facebook supports 200*600px as the highest resolution for the profile pic. It will resize an image to fit into these dimensions by maintaining the aspect ratio.

*UPDATE as on 19th Feb, 2017 *

We need to use this new URL formation to get a desired profile image.

http://graph.facebook.com/{profile_id}/picture?width={number‌​}&height={number}

[Thank you https://stackoverflow.com/users/2829128/vay]

Answer 2

If you want to get a larger picture you can just set the height and width you want like this:

http://graph.facebook.com/[page id/profile id]/picture?width=[number]&height=[number]

More info and examples here: Pictures - Facebook Developers