Grabbing player avatar images from link

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#1

So it appears Roblox recently changed how they generate images of users’ avatars, which has broken a minor function of one of our webhooks.

Originally, we used the line

avatar_url = "http://www.roblox.com/Thumbs/Avatar.ashx?x=100&y=100&Format=Png&userId="..player.UserId

to grab an image of the player’s avatar. This has since broken.

Due to the nature of the way we’re doing this, I don’t think we’d be able to use
Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync, as that’s more for GUIs and things in-game as opposed to external resources.

Currently, when I try to get my own avatar image, it gives me a URL like this:
https://tr.rbxcdn.com/96974da4e61b4f672f56c4c6001c0e29/352/352/Avatar/Png
Which, sadly, doesn’t incorporate the user’s ID at all. Instead, it seems to generate a completely different, longer identifying string. Going through the properties of Player on Documentation, there’s no such thing I can call, so getting this string seems to be impossible.

Does anybody know about any other way to get the link to an image of a user’s avatar using their user ID? It just makes life easier.
This is totally just a silly feature of our webhook which gives face-to-a-name effectively, and we don’t really need it at all, we just like it a lot.

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#2

‘rbxthumb://type=Asset&w=420&h=420&id=’ …player.UserId

#3

Breaks the script- throws a HTTP 400 error.
It seems it has an issue with the lack of it being an actual link.

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#4

AAAND found a fix.
Though our original used the full avatar image, the headshot will do!

 "https://www.roblox.com/headshot-thumbnail/image?userId="..player.UserId.."&width=420&height=420&format=png"
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#5

Hey, there are image endpoints that you can use to get the full body, you can view them here.

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#6

Hello! I’ve tried that solution since im having the same problem, but it doesnt show the image. Is there any fix for that? – Nevermind, i just formatted the thumbnail wrong.

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#7

Look I found the same but full body > "https://www.roblox.com/avatar-thumbnail/image?userId="..player.UserId.."&width=420&height=420&format=png"

#8

sorry for bumping but this doesn’t seem to work anymore, is there any other solution?

#9

Nope. Roblox deprecated the avatar image endpoints and wants us to use the API. Problem is most of us don’t know how.

#10

ahh that’s bad, thank you anyways.

#11

I believe I’ve found a solution to this, tho this will require you to use (json/xml)

https://thumbnails.roblox.com/v1/users/avatar?userIds=IDHERE&size=100x100&format=Png&isCircular=false

this will return a JSON object like this:

{
   "data": [
      {
         "targetId": 1,
         "state": "Completed",
         "imageUrl": "https://tr.rbxcdn.com/4db69b7085238b92eb50048953c7dfb0/100/100/Avatar/Png"
      }
   ]
}

and you can access Image URL like this:

responseData.data[0].imageUrl

(the example is in javascript)
but it is similar in other languages

#12

You can’t do that, you’d have to use a proxy as you’re not allowed to send get requests to roblox endpoints within games.

I’m unable to use them at all, as every get request that contains a roblox cdn link just gets censored/removed.

These two methods did not work for me;

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shared.getAvatarUrl = function(user)
	local thumbnail_request = string.format("https://thumbnails.roproxy.com/v1/users/avatar-headshot?userIds=%d&size=48x48&format=png", user.UserId)
	local response = http_service:RequestAsync({
		Url = thumbnail_request,
		Method = "GET"
	});
	local b = response.Body
	print(b)
	print(b:match('"https:\/\/tr.rbxcdn.com\/.+["]'):gsub('"', ""))
	
	return b:match('"https:\/\/tr.rbxcdn.com\/.+["]'):gsub('"', "")

	
end

shared.getAvatarUrl = function(user)
	local thumbnail_request = string.format("https://thumbnails.roproxy.com/v1/users/avatar-headshot?userIds=%d&size=48x48&format=png", user.UserId)
	local response = http_service:RequestAsync({
		Url = thumbnail_request,
		Method = "GET"
	});
	
	local data = http_service:JSONDecode(response.Body).data
	
	return data[1].imageUrl

	
end