Picasso library stopped working today with facebook graph picture links

Question

In my app i use Picasso library to load images from urls. It is a nicely working easily importable and usable library, and just do the thing i need.

However, today it stopped working, and not while developping it is stopped working on a compiled apk.

So after i searched and searched for the reason i just found this buggy thing:

I use facebook graph urls to load profile pictures.

Here is one like: profile pictre,

the link is actually "http://graph.facebook.com/1464090949/picture?type=large"

But it is redirecting to: https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/t5.0-1/572518_1464090949_1222130273_n.jpg

Of course, both of url calls working in a browser, and you can see the profile picture.

However when i test both links with Picasso:

    ImageView iv = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView1);

    //Url1 NOT working, loads nothing.
    String url1 = "http://graph.facebook.com/1464090949/picture?type=large";

    //Url2 is the same as URL1, i just copied it from a browser, and this is working
    String url2 = "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/t5.0-1/572518_1464090949_1222130273_n.jpg";


    Picasso.with(this).load(url2).into(iv);

So the conclusion is, facebook maybe changed something and from now on Picasso cannot load images from graph.

Anybody can suggest me something to make this work? Of course i can try different libraries but if there is an other way i would be really happy.

Answer 1

Workaround1:

Change to https from http.

Working: https://graph.facebook.com/1464090949/picture?type=large

Not Working: http://graph.facebook.com/1464090949/picture?type=large

Workaround2:

Found soulution on this topic.

If you want for example: http://graph.facebook.com/1464090949/picture?type=large

This profile picture you could use:

https://graph.facebook.com/1464090949/?fields=picture.type(large)

Which returns a JSON Object:

   {
   "id": "1464090949",
   "picture": {
      "data": {
         "url": "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/t5.0-1/572518_1464090949_1222130273_n.jpg",
         "is_silhouette": false
      }
   }
}

And tada! There it is. url's key is the redirected url you can use to load your images.

(This will need oAuth which i didnt tested, just stick with Workaround1)

Answer 2

Try this. worked for me perfectly

Dependency: compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.5.0'

Picasso.Builder builder = new Picasso.Builder(mContext);
        builder.listener(new Picasso.Listener() {
            @Override
            public void onImageLoadFailed(Picasso picasso, Uri uri, Exception exception) {
                /*holder.getIvSpeakerPicture()
                        .setImageDrawable(context.getResources()
                                .getDrawable("your drawable id"));*/
            }
        });
        builder.downloader(new OkHttpDownloader(mContext));
        builder.build().load(image).into(viewHolder.image);