3 Ways to Grab Avatars on Yahoo Messenger

If you ever saw someone using a cool avatar on Yahoo Messenger and you wish you can use it also, Here is 3 ways on how to easily grab an avatar on Yahoo Messenger.

GRABBING AVATARS WITH MS PAINT

This is the method I used when I was still a newbie in Yahoo Chat. Im not yet initiated in using yahoo tools on those days thats why I use to do this to grab an avatar of other people so I could use it as my own.

First open a PM window with the user you want to grab an avatar from.

Now press the PRINT SCREEN button on your computer keyboard to take a screenshot of your desktop and then open Ms Paint

On Ms Paint. Paste the image on you clipboard either by clicking the EDIT menu on Ms Paint and choosing Paste or by pressing CTRL key + V at the same time. You should now see a screenshot of your desktop.

On the left side of MS Paint. Click the Selection Tool on toolbars

Now drag your mouse diagonally accross the avatar then click EDIT menu and choose CUT or press CTRL key + X to cut that image to clipboard..

Now goto IMAGE menu on MS Paint then choose ATTRIBUTES...
On this window set the width and height to 10 pixels.

After making sure we have a smaller canvass on MS Paint than our image on the clipboard. Paste again the image on the clipboard either by clicking EDIT menu and PASTE or by pressing CTRL key + V.

You can now save it either as a .JPG or PNG file.

GRABBING AVATARS WITH BROWSERS

I learned this about a year ago when I was active in coding yahoo tools. Here we will grab a users avatar just by using your favorite browser.

First open your browser. Now goto this Url.either by clicking it or by copy/pasting it to the address bar of your browser. http://img.msg.yahoo.com/avatar.php?yids=?demonyo68

You will see here the current avatar im using.

Now look at the end of the Url above you will see my yahoo id -> demonyo68
You can change this to the username or id of the person you want to grab an avatar from.
For example I will grab the avatar of AINES_57 so i will change the Url to
http://img.msg.yahoo.com/avatar.php?yids=?aines_57

To save that avatar to your computer. Just right click on it and choose SAVE IMAGE AS

Name the file anything you want (yahoo uses png file format for their avatar.)

GRABBING AVATARS WITH YAHOO TOOLS

Here is a Yahoo Tool I coded that does the same thing as I showed you on GRABBING AVATAR WITH BROWSER. But now all you have to do is just input the username/id then click buttons Presto! You have their avatar. This is useful if your grabbing multiple avatars or your just as lazy as me heheh!

You can download it here

Now open Y!AVATAR GRABBER

Just type the id or username of the person you want to grab an avatar from and click CHECK.

When you see their avatar just click GRAB button to save. You will now see the avatar you grabbed within the same directory as Y!AVATAR GRABBER. (Its the file named AVATAR.PNG)