Nobody has the answer? It helps me a lot!
On Jul 19, 6:42 pm, Kevin Dunglas <dung...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I'm working on a program which update periodically some Twitter > accounts avatars. > Here is the process: > -- > while True: > GEThttp://twitter.com/users/show/myuser.xml > GET avatar located at the url specified in the profile_image_url XML > tag > Make some change to the avatar > POST the new avatar onhttp://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.xml > > sleep(some time) > -- > > While the program sleep (between two avatar processing) the user can > upload manually a new avatar. > > My problem is that the value profile_image_url is often outdated an > when I try to download the current user avatar using this value I get > a 404 error. > > I guess the address of the avatar is cached, but after how long the > users/show page contains the new value? Is there a way to always the > get the current (displayed on the twitter.com user profile) avatar ? > > Thanks !
