Did you know that Facebook and Instagram they have a "secret" feature that converts your photos to ASCII? By making a small change to your photo URLs, you can view them in color or black and white ASCII characters
The information came online from developer Mathias Bynens at Twitter and has piqued the interest of users.
As he says, the trick is extremely simple and applies to both sites. Just add the .txt or .html photo to the end of the photo url to see it in ASCII form. With txt it will be black and white and the html color.
For example, if this is your usual URL from Facebook or Instagram ...
https://scontent-ams3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/11906246_1700002456899911_1391970345_n.jpg
…. then just add the .txt at the end to see it in black and white version ASCII:
https://scontent-ams3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/11906246_1700002456899911_1391970345_n.jpg.txt
… Or add .html to see in ASCII colored:
https://scontent-ams3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/11906246_1700002456899911_1391970345_n.jpg.html
The process is the same for Facebook photos, although in our tests we found it difficult to find a photo that its url address does not end in? Oh = something. In these url tricks do not work.
Of course on both sites although the conversion is a simple process, discovering its original URL pictures is quite painful. For Instagram, you can view the source code in your browser and search for it there. And on Facebook, turning right click images unfortunately you will not get the correct format of the URLs.
But if you are able to find the right way to give the actual URL, then you can play with this fun feature.