Grabbing Twitter Info - Profile Image

itsbecca

Grabbing Twitter Info - Profile Image

in Contributed Library Questions • 2 years ago

I'm working on a little program that integrates with twitter (using twitter4j) to get various pieces of information that will eventually output an image. I've got most things running smoothly, including keyword queries and user timelines, but I'm having some trouble with getting user images. I found some code that pulls images based on keywords tweeted, but I'd like to pull the image of a specific user instead. I'm having trouble adapting the code.

Here is the code as it currently is:

String imgTemp = null;
try{
Query query = new Query("keyword");
QueryResult result = (QueryResult) twitter.search(query);
java.util.List tweets = result.getTweets();
Tweet t = (Tweet) tweets.get(0);
imgTemp = t.getProfileImageUrl();
}
catch (Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
}
//loads image and resizes to fill window
img = loadImage(imgTemp, "png");
img.resize(600,0);
image(img,0,0);

Every attempt I make at editing the variables throws back to me the error "The function getProfileImageUrl does not exist." But if I change it back to the code above it runs fine (just doesn't do what I'd like it to.) I'm slowly going crazy.

Can anyone lend me a hand?

(Twitter4j's java doc here)

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dockhands

Re: Grabbing Twitter Info - Profile Image

1 month ago

Hi,

I just spent the last few hours mucking around with the same problem.

This worked:

t.getUser().getProfileImageURL();

oh wait... ha you wrote this over 2 years ago. hope it still helps!

ps anyone know how to get larger thumbnails from twitter profileimage url?

theyre shit quality!

dimkir

Re: Grabbing Twitter Info - Profile Image

1 month ago

you can look at the javadoc for the User class here

http://twitter4j.org/javadoc/twitter4j/User.html

there're methods called:

getOriginalProfileImageURL()

getProfileImageURL ()

getBiggerProfileImageURL()

mind that getBiggerProfileImageURL() will return to you usually smaller size images thatn getOriginalProfileImageURL(), because the original one is the image in dimensions which user originally has uploaded the picture (let's say half size of the screen), but the original may also be very small, if user uploaded really small picture.

The getBigger*** will give you standard size icon always, which is good. But it's still rather "icon" than actual photo to look at :)

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