How do you get someones Twitter profile picture on Meteor?

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I'm doing a project using Meteor. People can log in with Twitter. I was wondering if there was a way to get someones profile picture from Twitter in the Accounts.onCreateUser. Here's what I have in mine :

Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user) {

   var twitterInfo =  user.services.twitter;

   if (options.profile){

        options.profile.createdAt = new Date();//now!
        options.profile.twitterId = twitterInfo.id;
        options.profile.username = twitterInfo.screenName;
        options.profile.name  = options.profile.name;
        user.profile = options.profile; 
   }

    return user;
});

Thanks!

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '13 at 09:22

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with twitter api 1.0 deprecation. the accepted answer is no longer valid.

Meteor.user().services.twitter.profile_image_url

worked for me.

answered Jul 05 '13 at 09:22

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '14 at 17:07

I've added the Meteor packages accounts-ui and accounts-twitter to my app. http://docs.meteor.com/#accountsui These packages add Twitter OAuth login capability really easily.

Better still: I can access the current user via Meteor.user() from anywhere. And even better, they come they're own templates. So I can just use {{services.twitter.screenName}} anywhere in my app to get the users twitter handle. {{services.twitter.profile_image_url}} for the avatar image url. And {{profile.name}} for the Twitter username.

Tarang · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-06T08:32:34.137

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As per the API (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/profile_image/%3Ascreen_name) add this in:

options.profile.display_picture="http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/"+twitterInfo.screenName;

This was the traditional way, in api 1.1 its slightly harder (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/user-profile-images-and-banners):

You need to get GET users/show and parse the user object for profile_image_url

edited May 06 '13 at 08:32

answered May 06 '13 at 05:58

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api 1.0 is deprecated and no longer available. – pahan Sep 23 '13 at 05:55
I have also mentioned how to use 1.1, you need to get `/users/show` and get out `profile_image_url` from the user object. You need to OAuth first and use the token to make the request – Tarang Sep 23 '13 at 06:59

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 07 '13 at 07:51

When a user logs in with twitter URL's for the profile pic is being set in the Users collection at services.twitter.profile_image_url and services.twitter.profile_image_url_https so you could just read out those URL's.

I use the following line to set a users twitter profile pic in the profile object, which is visible to the client by default:

Meteor.users.update({_id:Meteor.userId()}, {$set {"profile.twitterpic":user.services.twitter.profile_image_url}});

How do you get someones Twitter profile picture on Meteor?

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