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[tread77 Friend tread77Join date: June 2011Posts: 14Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#179264

Is there a way to make the facebook images higher res? they are very grainy. Thanks

[HeR0 Friend HeR0Join date: August 2011Posts: 3626Downloads:0Uploads:61 Thanks: 33 Thanked: 588 times in 549 posts]

#461694

Hi Tread77
Please set image resized setting in k2 setting

Regards,

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#461752

<em>@HeR0 331078 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Tread77
Please set image resized setting in k2 setting

Regards,</blockquote>
I’m confused. When I downloaded Wall the K2 extension was not in the download section. I’m also reading that people are having issues if it is loaded. So do I need K2 or not?

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#461756

@jwellman
If you installed using the quickstart package, K2 should have been installed along with it. If you just used the template, then K2 is not provided with it.

You only need K2 if you want it’s advanced features like tag searching. But for feeds purchase. Joomla publishing would do just fine. And having K2 loaded shouldn’t affect anything cause it’s a standalone thing even though it piggy backs on Joomla.

@rest
Sry topic hijack. I have no idea what this topic is asking nor what hero just replied. Moving on >_<

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#461762

<em>@arucardx 331158 wrote:</em><blockquote>@rest
Sry topic hijack. I have no idea what this topic is asking nor what hero just replied. Moving on >_<</blockquote>
I have a few images that are not pulling over correctly too so I tried to set the image properties (inside the articles) but things only got worse. It appears to be pulling over thumbnails of images that are located in Facebook albums. They look horrible. As long as I don’t put the images in a Facebook album (meaning, upload it directly to my wall) then I get the proper resolution and the photos look much better.

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#461766

Ahh.. I think I understand what you and OP is asking now. There’s a very logical explanation for this along with a solution, though it might require some plugin modification to be done.

For example purpose. I’ll use Joomla’s feed url.
https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=6650304666&format=rss20
If you view that link, you see all the articles have very small thumbnails. These are thumbnails which have been cached by facebook on their server, the same like when you like/share a page onto facebook. The thumbnail is generated from a resize of the main image no more than 90 x 90. The result of that is a very small image. That is the thumbnail the plugin is downloading.

For the sake of explanation. I’ll make it more clear with examples. Lets use “The Joomla! Project Wants You! – July 2012” as an example.

This is the link to the image in the facebook feed.
This is the image in the article on Joomla’s site.

See facebook have resized it down to 90 x 60 from 600 x 401. With that kind of size, it’s impossible to get high quality pictures from feeds. Up scaling it will only degrade picture quality because you’re just stretching it and not really re-sampling it.

The solution!
Is actually very simple. Let’s look at the resized image from facebook again. Let’s see the link information.
https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAayddK4fw4IhS5&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmagazine.joomla.org%2Fmedia%2Fk2%2Fitems%2Fcache%2F6af8f580e799444e5a52119018e87a65_L.jpg

See it says akamaihd.net? That’s facebook’s server. But look what’s after that. It says url=http%3A%2F%2Fmagazine.joomla.org%2Fmedia%2Fk2%2Fitems%2Fcache%2F6af8f580e799444e5a52119018e87a65_L.jpg

That’s the direct url to the image on Joomla’s site. Don’t believe me? Let’s remove those symbols and translate them into something for your browser to read. It becomes this, http://magazine.joomla.org/media/k2/items/cache/6af8f580e799444e5a52119018e87a65_L.jpg <– Click on it =D See the image now?

So what’s the solution? Simple. We’ll need Ja Social Feed plugin to scrape the URL of the image from the Facebook feed then filter away https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?*url= then download the image directly from the article source instead of thru Facebook =D The * being a wildcard.

Unfortunately I’m just the man with the idea, you will need to open a ticket for request feature to have that worked on by the JA Plugin team. I just send in a request feature for Lazyload couple days ago and it got approved =D

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[tread77 Friend tread77Join date: June 2011Posts: 14Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#461776

It’s not a K2 issue since I don;’t have k2 installed. Will installing k2 fix the fbook issue? Or is arucardx correct?

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#461812

Hi Tread77
As Arucardx said, in your case, using k2 components will increase quality of image. But if you do as Arucardx’s solution, you will get the better result. Quality of image depend on the source, hope you understand that.

Regards,

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#461944

Thanks, i will submit a ticket

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