Hack to allow us to load icon images in Maltego by following the redirect and serving up the actual image.

getFBProfilePhoto.py

#!/usr/env/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Hack to allow us to load icon images in Maltego by following
#  the redirect and serving up the actual image.

from flask import Flask, send_file
import requests
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/fb/pic/<id>')
def getPicURL(id):
    "Pass Facebook ID, get profile photo"
    r = requests.get("https://graph.facebook.com/%s/picture" % id)
    url = r.url
    response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
    return send_file(response.raw, mimetype='image/gif')
    return response.raw

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()