I found my profile account number and it works for the graph link but I am not that number on the site
The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images
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Re: The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images
#32I found my profile account number and it works for the graph link but I am not that number on the site
The number on this site refers to the profile picture. Some people have multiple profile pictures over time, and some have deleted their account, etc. Example: Zuck is 1 on this page but his FBID is 4.
Re: The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images
#33Interesting to see a lot of Harvard grads on row #1 indeed.
Re: The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images
#34Can't load the page. But I wonder, is it possible to grab all Facebook profile pictures (or at least the public ones), or were they given special access for research purposes?
Your browser is doing the downloading. The URLs are available from the API (I changed random characters): $ curl -I https://graph.facebook.com/100000624321700/picture HTTP/1.1 302 Found (...) Location: https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/573867_100000621711234_930571234_q.jpg Then it is just a matter of incrementing the number. This might be a fun research project.
well don't forget that they are also using the api to get the full_name of users
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#35I'm not sure what I'm looking at here... all I see is a giant zoomable grid of chromatic noise. Is it supposed to be showing peoples pictures or something?
A facebook profile picture of smallest dimension (50px X 50px) will have minimum size of 3 kb.. So, if this site will show real profile pics all together, it'll have to load almost 3.5 TB of data for 1.2 billion pictures.. A connection with 100Kb/s downloading speed will take around 430 days, and a connection with 1MB/s will take around 42 days.. I don't think anyone would be interested to spend more than 2 minutes o…
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Re: The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images
#36Can't load the page. But I wonder, is it possible to grab all Facebook profile pictures (or at least the public ones), or were they given special access for research purposes?
Your browser is doing the downloading. The URLs are available from the API (I changed random characters): $ curl -I https://graph.facebook.com/100000624321700/picture HTTP/1.1 302 Found (...) Location: https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/573867_100000621711234_930571234_q.jpg Then it is just a matter of incrementing the number. This might be a fun research project.
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Re: The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images
#37I found my profile account number and it works for the graph link but I am not that number on the site
The number on this site refers to the profile picture. Some people have multiple profile pictures over time, and some have deleted their account, etc. Example: Zuck is 1 on this page but his FBID is 4.
So #1 is Mark's picture from back then and he and everyone else would be in the page multiple times.
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#38So FB allows to GET 1.2B profile images without getting blocked? If so, is using that data legal? If so, how can I get my hands on it :).
Your browser is doing the GETting. Bring up the network tab in your browser's dev console and zoom in. I was a little worried about getting blocked myself just from playing around on that page.
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#39I was quite surprised by the [edit: relatively] prodigious amount of penises.
Re: The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images
#40Its not "Visualizing". Its called fetching random images.
That was my reaction, too. I was expecting something more than a random pixel map.