How to query a Facebook user picture via Meteor's accounts-facebook?

facebook, meteor

Solution

Use this instead, you don't need an access token or anything special to get their profile picture, just their facebook user id.

Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user) {
    if (options.profile) {
        options.profile.picture = "http://graph.facebook.com/" + user.services.facebook.id + "/picture/?type=large";
        user.profile = options.profile;
    }
    return user;
});

Problem

I'm trying to get the authenticated Facebook user's profile picture, to use within a Meteor application. I've tried the following ``` Meteor.publish("facebook_avatar_url", function() { return Meteor.users.find({_id: this.userId}, {fields: { 'services.facebook.id': 1, 'services.facebook.name': 1, 'services.facebook.gender': 1, 'services.facebook.picture': 1, 'services.facebook.picture.data': 1, 'services.facebook.picture.data.url': 1 }}); }); ``` and it only returns the id, name, and gender. This seems to be what I want, and the recommended solution. Only problem is there's no data being returned regarding the user's picture. I tried adding the following to server/server.js, at the suggestion of some other posts, but it a) doesn't seem to be the recommended approach, and b) doesn't seem to be doing anything. So, it seems to be a dead end, but somebody out there seems to think that it can be used to get the profile picture loaded up. ``` var getFbPicture; Accounts.loginServiceConfiguration.remove({ service: "facebook" }); Accounts.onCreateUser(function(options, user) { if (options.profile) { options.profile.picture = getFbPicture(user.services.facebook.accessToken); user.profile = options.profile; } return user; }); getFbPicture = function(accessToken) { var result; result = Meteor.http.get("https://graph.facebook.com/me", { params: { access_token: accessToken, fields: 'picture' } }); if (result.error) { throw result.error; } return result.data.picture.data.url; }; ``` So, I'm kinda unsure which direction to go at this point. Is this something that needs permissions set on the Facebook Graph API? Or on the Facebook Application? Do I have the syntax wrong in the publication function? Do I need to revisit the onCreateUser function?

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