C#: using TMDbLib to retrive person images

trevor1940
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I'm trying to retrieve all a persons profile images  of a person C#.Net library for TheMovieDB.

https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25541-katherine-heigl/images/profiles?language=en-US
Shows several images

// This gets info about a person
var TMDBperson = client.GetPersonAsync(person.Id ).Result;

// then loop through but it's null
            ImagesflowLayoutPanel.Controls.Clear();
            foreach (var image in TMDBperson.Images.Profiles)
            {
                var PIB = new PersonImageBox(image);
                ImagesflowLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(PIB);
            }


// you can chain queries together something like this
// but not happy
var TMDBperson = client.GetPersonAsync(person.Id, TMDbLib.Objects.People.ProfileImages ).Result;

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Looking at https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/people/get-person-images
There should be several images for Katherine Heigl So How do I retrieve them
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Eduard GherguArchitect - Coder - Mentor

Commented:
Hi,

The ImageData from https://github.com/LordMike/TMDbLib/tree/master/TMDbLib/Objects/General contains only the image file path. In order to retrieve the files you'll need to retrieve the files via a request to the server. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3615800/download-image-from-the-site-in-net-c
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There is 2 ways to do this

1 Changing the call together using 

var TMDBperson = client.GetPersonAsync(person.Id, TMDbLib.Objects.People.PersonMethods.Images ).Result;

// Then Loop through
            foreach(var pImage in TMDBperson.Images.Profiles)
            {
                var PIB = new PersonImageBox(pImage);
                ImagesflowLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(PIB);
            }

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2 as a separate call
            var ProfileImages = client.GetPersonImagesAsync(person.Id).Result;
            foreach (var pImage in ProfileImages.Profiles)
            {
                      var PIB = new PersonImageBox(pImage);
                ImagesflowLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(PIB);        
            }

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