Facebook graph search provides a very useful, however, a hidden way to get the full-size profile pictures of any user-id or username.

For example,

http://graph.facebook.com/picture?id=122&width=800

This url will redirect to the full-size profile image of the user-id "122". Similarly,

http://graph.facebook.com/picture?id=ankit&width=800

This url will redirect to the full-size profile image of the username "ankit".

This module written in python will provide a simple API or direct usage to fetch any number of full-size facebook profile images of users either mentioned as range of user-ids or a text file containing newline separated usernames.

Since according to the facebook privacy policy, all of these full-size profile images are public, the script enables to obtain a huge dataset of random real images legally free of cost, especially for the purposes of research (Machine Learning, Image Processing), or maybe marketing or more.

The python modules are needed in order to use this library.

urllib
sys
os
datetime
json

Clone the repository and use the following code.

Run the command directly from the console with command line arguments to the file fb_image.py. The command line arguments are explained as:

fb_image.py [filename]
fb_image.py [id1] [id2]

where id1 and id2 defines the range of userids whose images are to be fetched. For example,

$ python fb_image.py example.txt
$ python fb_image.py 12 16

import fb_image as fb
fb.get_profile_of_id(12,16)
fb.get_profile_of_file("example.txt")

The above code will obtain and save the profile images of the mentioned usersids (12-16) or usernames mentioned in "example.txt" file".

Use example.py available with the repository.

$ python example.py

import fb_image as fb

Import the module in your main file.

Function to get profile images of userids from id1 to id2.

Function for get profile images of userids or usernames specified in the given file (usernames and userids are to be separated using newline).

If anybody is interested in working on developing this library, fork and feel free to get in touch with me.

MIT License