facebook pictures error

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I try to get timthumb to resize main images of facebook albums.

A TimThumb error has occured

The following error(s) occured:
An error occured fetching image.

Query String : 
src=https://graph.facebook.com/188345861231050/picture&h=150&w=150
TimThumb version : 2.7

Is there any way to make it work?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by p.ba...@eminus.pl on 18 Aug 2011 at 10:08

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You must configure TimThumb :

define ('ALLOW_EXTERNAL', TRUE);

and

$ALLOWED_SITES = array (
    'facebook.com'
);

Original comment by neopheus on 18 Aug 2011 at 10:20

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now i get 'The remote file is not a valid image.'

Original comment by p.ba...@eminus.pl on 18 Aug 2011 at 10:31

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i have exactly the same problem.
timthumb works fine, but not with facebook graph.

what can it be?
heeeeelp!?

Original comment by gpin...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2011 at 6:21

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URL getting error sample:
http://republicarayada.com.mx/timthumb.php?src=https://graph.facebook.com/100000
043114207/picture?type=normal&h=104&w=83&zc=1

please!

Original comment by gpin...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2011 at 6:30

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i used a function that gets a real url for me and then timthumb on realurl

    public function getRealUrl($photoLink) {            
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $this->header);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, false);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $this->useragent);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_URL, $photoLink);
        //this assumes your code is into a class method, and uses $this->readHeader as the callback //function
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, array(&$this,'readHeader'));
        $response = curl_exec($this->curl);
        if(!curl_errno($this->curl)) {
            $info = curl_getinfo($this->curl);
//            var_dump($info);
             if($info["http_code"] == 302) {
                 $headers = $this->getHeaders();
                 if(isset($headers['fileUrl'])) {
                     return $headers['fileUrl'];
                 }
             }
        }
        return false;
    }

Original comment by p.ba...@eminus.pl on 24 Oct 2011 at 7:14

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Facebook defaults to an HTTPS protocol. Try changing it to HTTP and it should 
work. That said, I'm here because of the same issue and there's no changing how 
Facebook delivers the URL.

I'll try that function though.

Original comment by patrickw...@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2012 at 12:20

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The comment in point 6 is the best solution for this

Original comment by BinaryMoon on 27 Sep 2013 at 9:06

• Changed state: WontFix