How to get Contact PhotoUrl in Salesforce?

Question

In Salesforce I have created a few Contacts. And linked some of the contacts with LinkedIn profile. As soon as I link the contacts, the image display in Salesforce changes the profile image to that provided by LinkedIn. Basically I think it would work the same way if I linked it to Facebook or other social sites.

Now my requirement is to get the the PhotoUrl of the Contact. I went through this documentation Contacts Standard Object. It shows there is a field "PhotoUrl", but when I make a query in SOQL using SOAP API, like "Select Name, PhotoUrl From Contact", this query fails and the response message tells that there is no such field as "PhotoUrl".

What am I missing? Is there any way I cant get the Photo?

Thanks

SOLUTION: THE PROBLEM WAS WITH THE API VERSION 29. I HAD TO CHANGE IT TO 30. HOWEVER IT WAS TRICKY WITH SOAP API. I HAD TO CHANGE THE AUTHENTICATION ENDPOINT VERSION TO 30.

Answer 1

Change the version of salesforce API. It works for me in 30.0 and not in 29.0..

Answer 2

If it is in a visualforce page, set your standard controller to Contact and then {!contact.PhotoUrl} will return the url.