How to check whether Google User's image is default or uploaded?

Question

How do I check whether user's profile picture is default or uploaded in Google?

Note: When you get user details from APIs.

Dorree

Answer 1

All of default profile pictures have the following URL:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg

You can just compare string equality of profile picture with the given one.

Slemmer

this string seem to have changed but it's still true that default images contain AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA and ends in photo.jpg. – Mitman

This has changed and default images don't contain such URL patterns anymore. To know whether the user profile picture is real or default, we can leverage the people API as mentioned by @incaren in the below answer. – Finnie

Answer 2

people.get includes a isDefault value in the image object. E.g. if you try it for +Google you will get;

"image": {
    "url": "https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v0soe-ievYE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAACyas/yR1_yhwBcBA/photo.jpg?sz=50",
    "isDefault": false
}

Maisiemaison

What is it in case it's not available? False by default, or true by default? – Tamper

@androiddeveloper It's false by default: if default is omitted from the API, it means that it's user-set – Ascidian

Answer 3

people.get no longer has isDefault as a property. https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/people#resource

Seta

I tried this a minute ago. It gave isDefault": false. Please can you clarify this. – Vittle

Answer 4

Updating this answer for 2020: it's now possible to get the user's profile picture by sending a request to the people.get API with photos as the personFields to request.

You'll get back an array of images, and whenever default: true is present, it means it's a default (not user-set) image:

Example (if you're using this with OAuth):

GET https://people.googleapis.com/v1/people/me

Sample response (with profile picture)

{
  "resourceName": "people/117055959617985617271",
  "etag": "%EgQBAzcuGgQBAgUHIgxHamp6MG9wZ3hOcz0=",
  "photos": [
    {
      "metadata": {
        "primary": true,
        "source": {
          "type": "PROFILE",
          "id": "117055959617985617271"
        }
      },
      "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14Gg_-udXd3O6K1URTBTEK2rLa2DOh6G2dgmOHcOBOtE=s100"
    },
    {
      "metadata": {
        "source": {
          "type": "CONTACT",
          "id": "2"
        }
      },
      "url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/default-user=s100",
      "default": true
    }
  ]
}

Sample response (default only)

{
  "resourceName": "people/113009277022343767972",
  "etag": "%EgQBAzcuGgQBAgUHIgxxdHVTY3IxZVJIUT0=",
  "photos": [
    {
      "metadata": {
        "primary": true,
        "source": {
          "type": "PROFILE",
          "id": "113009277022343767972"
        }
      },
      "url": "https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-6NS3awoYRXw/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/AMZuucnTo-mElIpcAEazDV9DAs1VyYDEIw/s100/photo.jpg",
      "default": true
    }
  ]
}

Ascidian

Answer 5

in ruby with devise and omniauth-google-oauth2

in your devise.rb

config.omniauth :google_oauth2 (Other options....), skip_image_info: false

then in your user.rb / other place:

def self.parse_auth_image(auth)
  if auth.provider == "google_oauth2"
    return nil if auth.dig("extra", "raw_info", "image", "isDefault")
  end
  auth.info.image
end

Sportswear

Answer 6

The best way to do this in FULL DETAIL:

require 'open-uri'

Default image:

default = "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-
XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg"

Image to check:

image_to_check = "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-
uh4wK1JDtCI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/huieBSbV4zg/s64-
c/100695019739939096169.jpg"

Comparison check

blob_for_default_image = open(default).read

blob_for_image_to_check = open(image_to_check).read 

Then you compare the 2 image blobs:

blob_for_default_image == blob_for_image_to_check 

Polymerization

Answer 7

If you are using PHP, It's fairly simple, just use this code

$profile_img_end = explode("/", $userData['picture']); // Exploding the URL and Dividing it into several terms

if (end($profile_img_end) === "photo.jpg") { // Now Simply Check if last part of array is equal to "photo.jpg" which is common in all default images
    $profile_img = null; // If it's default then set it equal to null
} else {
    $profile_img = $userData['picture']; // Else get the Link of the Image
}

Alternative in JavaScript

var url = ""; // Image URL

var img_split = url.split("/"); // Split it Again from / (forward slash)

if (img_split[img_split.length - 1] === 'photo.jpg') { // Check if last array is equal to photo.jpg (By Default Image)
   var image = null;
} else {
   var image = url;
}

HOPE IT HELPS!

Kudva

This answer can not be true...not for 2021(?) At least in 2023 the image url looks like that: – Tetanus