profile pics don't show

[jcomeauictx]

bot always says I don't have a profile pic when I do. or in @DavidStodolsky's case it showed a silhouette instead of the actual photo.

[jcomeauictx]

seems to be a bug in the API itself:

>>> import requests
>>> requests.get('https://api.kik.com/v1/user/jcomeauictx', auth=(BOT_USERNAME, BOT_API_KEY))
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.kik.com
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://api.kik.com:443 "GET /v1/user/jcomeauictx HTTP/1.1" 200 107
<Response [200]>
>>> _.json()
{u'timezone': None, u'profilePicUrl': None, u'firstName': u'John', u'profilePicLastModified': None, u'lastName': u'Comeau'}

[jcomeauictx]

but:

>>> requests.get('https://api.kik.com/v1/user/davidsanderss', auth=(BOT_USERNAME, BOT_API_KEY))
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.kik.com
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://api.kik.com:443 "GET /v1/user/davidsanderss HTTP/1.1" 200 179
<Response [200]>
>>> _.json()
{u'timezone': u'Europe/Copenhagen', u'profilePicUrl': u'https://cdn.kik.com/user/pic/davidsanderss/big', u'firstName': u'David', u'profilePicLastModified': 1480412432564L, u'lastName': u'Stodolsky'}

[jcomeauictx]

maybe kik is just slow to update their database. a few minutes ago I checked the URL https://cdn.kik.com/user/pic/jcomeauictx/big and got the silhouette. a few minutes later I got the photo I had added an hour or so before. now I've taken a photo on the other BLU phone and that shows as my profile photo but it's on on cdn yet. and the API still returns None.

[jcomeauictx]

from David: "Just tried it again and got the same result. So, I doubt it is just a delay. If it is. then it should be regarded as a bug."

[jcomeauictx]

OK, but there seem to be 2 separate bugs: one in the API itself, and one that may be in the API, in the Python bindings of the API, or the bot code.

the first is the failure to update the API. my profile pic has been active over 12 hours now and the API still returns None.

the second is that the API returns a link to your profile pic, the link when viewed shows your actual profile photo, but the bot doesn't display it.

[jcomeauictx]

I have no clue where to report an API bug. googling only shows in-app bug reporting. any ideas, @DavidStodolsky?

[DavidStodolsky]

We are just trying to get the example running. Can't you report the issues in their repo?

[jcomeauictx]

I guess so, although the first is upstream of that code, and the second is likely upstream as well.

[DavidStodolsky]

The important thing is that they know of the problem. We can wait for a fix.

[jcomeauictx]

try it now. it's working for me.

[jcomeauictx]

submitted pull request upstream: https://github.com/kikinteractive/kik-bot-python-example/pull/2

[jcomeauictx]

@DavidStodolsky please verify correct behavior now so I can close this.

[DavidStodolsky]

Verified