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Questions tagged [gravatar]

Gravatar (globally recognizable avatar) is a globally accessible avatar storage service, used, in particular, by StackOverflow.

Gravatar is a service, that stores unique user identifier pictures - "avatars". Stored avatar can be accessed through URL containing MD5 hash of user's e-mail. If supplied MD5 was not rcognized, service generates an unique image pattern for it.

This tag is appropriate for marking questions concerning Gravatar usage and structure (e.g. embedding Gravatar images into guestbook engine, etc)

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Confusion with Gravatar URLs

I am having a bit of trouble getting Gravatars to work properly: When I request the following: http://gravatar.com/avatar/8a17d0d0d8bdf6a8d527bbc943a17cf8.jpg?s=64&d=identicon Firefox proudly displays the…
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Gravatar json profile request 403 forbidden

I am currently playing with the gravatar api, by writing a C# application. Firstly, I tried to get my gravatar picture. It worked. After that, I tried to get the profile QR code. It worked. Now, I want retrieve my profile information in json. I…
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Bash script for POST request https xml-rpc on Gravatar

I have a project to collect user information by a HTML local file. The project is aiming to be cross-platform and portable (require to have bash like git bash of github). All collected data would be sent to a bash script by custom protocol set up…
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How to gracefully check whether Gravatar, or third-party website, is working or not?

I just posted the question how-to-determine-why-the-browser-keeps-trying-to-load-a-page and discovered that my problem is with Gravatar. I also noticed that StackOverflow is suffering from the same outage. Does anyone know of a graceful way to…
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Check if gravatar exist with node.js

Hello right know I have a small web application using Sails.JS and I'm trying to set a default image if the user doesn't have a gravatar account/profile. This is the code that I use to hash the email in my controller: var crypto =…
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Rails: Gravatar images not showing up in Chrome

I'm working through the Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial, and I've added code to display a user's Gravatar image. It works fine in Firefox and Safari, but not in Chrome (the image just doesn't show up). The…
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Fragment Caching and User avatars/images

We use Gravatar on our website, but we want to let users upload their profile images directly in an effort to improve user experience similarly to what Stackexchange has been doing. On our website users can follow each other, comment, 'like' and…
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How to stop Gravatar setting cookies

I am using the Gravatar service on my website. However there is a problem: it sets two cookies, gravatar and __qca, which cause users with 3rd party cookies blocked to see a warning that the site tried to set 3rd party cookies. I don't want this to…
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iPhone iOS how to programmatically generate gravatar like the one used by stack overflow from a unique user ID?

I'm working on a medical app that may be a subject to HIPAA requirements, and I'm thinking of a good way to uniquely identify multiple users within the app without using names or pictures. The concept of a colored graphics avatar comes to mind, like…
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How to change the DropDown display using django ajax-selects in django postman

I am currently using an application named django-postman that makes use of django-ajax-selects to provide autocomplete feature in user names when sending messages internally. The view shown in django-ajax-selects is quite neat, but when I actually…
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How Can I display User Uploaded Avatar in Login Form?

I'm going to try my best to explain what I'm trying to do here. I created a login form for my wordpress that lets users login directly from the homepage it includes the Avatar for the profile that's logged in. Here is the code I came up with.
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Are avatars (like gravatars) findable from a phone number?

I know that I can use gravatar.org's simple API to find somebody's "Gravatar" if they have signed up using an email address. Is there a similar service which attaches "avatars" (or profile pictures) to phone numbers? I used gravatar.org API on an…
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Good RoR Gravatar gem/plugin and detect if the gravatar account exists or not

I'm currently using mdeering's gravatar_image_tag plugin to get gravatar images for users but my dilemma is to try to detect in the code if the user has a gravatar: If he does then display the gravatar image. If not, then display a local default…
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Avatar for Django

I need to implement avatar in my application. I see there's django-avatar but maybe there are other solutions. I need upload new avatars and resize it to a standard resolution if they're too big. Tips?
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how do sites automagically grab profile pictures?

Some sites have the ability to grab your profile picture after you sign up for the first time without the user actually uploading a pic. I think stackoverflow has this functionality at sign as well....How does it work?
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