{"id":961,"date":"2016-02-01T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/?p=961"},"modified":"2018-08-03T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T12:51:15","slug":"create-ascii-art-with-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/2016\/02\/create-ascii-art-with-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Create ASCII art with Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been discovered that Facebook have a cool secret feature where it will create ASCII art from any of your public photos.<\/p>\n<p>This only works with public photos, so a good example to try this with is your profile picture as these photos are always public.<\/p>\n<p>Browse to your photo albums, look in your &#8220;Profile Pictures&#8221; album, choose a photo then use the right-click menu to grab the image url, which will look something like this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"qoate-code\">https:\/\/scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xtl1\/t31.0-8\/11856255_10155869982660632_3455759563649364074_o.jpg<\/pre>\n<p>Add <strong>&#8220;.html&#8221;<\/strong> on to the end of this url to see the full colour ascii rendering of this photo:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"qoate-code\">https:\/\/scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xtl1\/t31.0-8\/11856255_10155869982660632_3455759563649364074_o.jpg.html<\/pre>\n<p>Or add <strong>&#8220;.txt&#8221;<\/strong> to the url to get the black and white version:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"qoate-code\">https:\/\/scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xtl1\/t31.0-8\/11856255_10155869982660632_3455759563649364074_o.jpg.txt<\/pre>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure why Facebook are doing this, I can&#8217;t imagine any practical use so I think it must just be a cool feature for people who are interested in digging deeper into the way Facebook works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been discovered that Facebook have a cool secret feature where it will create ASCII art from any of your public photos. This only works with public photos, so a good example to try this with is your profile picture as these photos are always public. Browse to your photo albums, look in your &#8220;Profile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code","tag-facebook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandjam.co.uk\/sandjam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}