Re: Static URL to profile picture

2008-10-10 Thread Shannon Whitley
, but it probably is the best solution to cache it, and one that Twitturly uses. -Joel On Oct 8, 4:25 pm, Nicolas Grasset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get a static profile picture URL when using the API, since picture updates will break old links? My photo:http://s3

Re: Static URL to profile picture

2008-10-10 Thread jstrellner
Carl: They provide the URL to the image in all of that users updates, so if you are getting tweets for a user, you are getting their profile picture (avatar) URL. It shouldn't require any additional calls. Alex: Any easy way to appease everyone who needs to access it, without doing any

Re: Static URL to profile picture

2008-10-10 Thread Stut
On 10 Oct 2008, at 10:26, jstrellner wrote: Alex: Any easy way to appease everyone who needs to access it, without doing any infrastructure changes on your part, is to add a new API call, http://twitter.com/statuses/user_avatar/username (for example). Then when someone requests that URL, you

Re: Static URL to profile picture

2008-10-09 Thread Shannon Whitley
I agree too. This request could really cut down on API calls. On Oct 8, 4:25 pm, Nicolas Grasset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get a static profile picture URL when using the API, since picture updates will break old links? My photo:http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production

Re: Static URL to profile picture

2008-10-09 Thread Abraham Williams
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=117 On Oct 9, 9:03 am, Shannon Whitley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree too.  This request could really cut down on API calls. On Oct 8, 4:25 pm, Nicolas Grasset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get a static profile picture

Re: Static URL to profile picture

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Payne
to their files, but it probably is the best solution to cache it, and one that Twitturly uses. -Joel On Oct 8, 4:25 pm, Nicolas Grasset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get a static profile picture URL when using the API, since picture updates will break old links? My

Re: Static URL to profile picture

2008-10-09 Thread Nicolas Grasset
-linking to their files, but it probably is the best solution to cache it, and one that Twitturly uses. -Joel On Oct 8, 4:25 pm, Nicolas Grasset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get a static profile picture URL when using the API, since picture updates will break old links