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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Rails url_for Gravatar routing error

This function is defined in the application_help.rb: def gravatar_url_for(email, options = {}) url_for( { :protocol => 'http://', :host => 'www.gravatar.com', :controller => 'avatar', # :controller =>…
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How to show image when we post a comment?

When I post a comment for a post or page in WordPress by default it shows a Gravatar image. I don't want this. Is there any way to upload an image when a user posts a comment in WordPress? I need to give people a way to upload their own image when…
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Gravatar implementation into user system

I have been looking arund at implementing Gravatar for all my users profile pictures but I am a little confused about one or two things. Imagine, like this site, I have a current user who is not registered with gravatar. In order to give them a…
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How to test default gravatar image locally on Jekyll?

Gravatar allows you to provide a default image for users without gravatars. Using Gravatars on a Jekyll site is easy, but Gravatar requires the default image to be visible externally.
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Show Google profile image in Wordpress comments. if author is gmail.com else gravatar

I would like to show comments author google profile picture, if he entered a gmail.com email address, else I will show the gravatar in comments. With my limitation in coding I managed to put sample code to construct further: function comment_image()…
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Alternative for Gravatar which supports SHA256

In our c# application we are not using MD5 as it is not secure, we are using SHA256. but when we use SHA256 we are not getting any images from gravatar. My questions are will gravatar support SHA 256? what is the alternative to gravatar that…
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ArgumentError in UsersController#index wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)

I am following Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial and I am in Chapter 9, Section 3. I am supposed to get: But instead, I get: Or, in plain text: ArgumentError in UsersController#index wrong number of arguments (2 for 1) Extracted source (around line…
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How can I resize the Facebook avatar provided by OmniAuth using Gravatar?

I'm able to get the Facebook avatar through Omniauth, but I'm only able to resize the default image not the Facebook image which is 50 x 50px by default. How can I resize it to 38px? Here's my application helper: module ApplicationHelper def…
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Getting user's facebook profile picture using picasso

I'm using Parse as a backend, im trying to get the users profile picture and to display it. I dont want to use the ProfilePictureView since im using a gridview that displays other imageViews as well. As you can see i'm also using gravater api. So…
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Gravatar - setting custom default avatar - avatar not shown

I am on development environment on localhost:3000 I followed railscasts episode on Gravatar. I am trying to set my custom avatar image that is located in assets/images. The code I use is this: def avatar_url(user) gravatar_id =…
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How can I display Gravtar using Middleman?

I'm attempting to build my first ruby gem that uses Middleman Frontmatter to display Gravatar images. My goal is to use frontmatter like this as an input: --- email: example@mail.com --- ...and output the associated Gravatar image in a .erb file…
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Express with gravatar

I make web site with express and I need gravatar image, so https://npmjs.org/package/gravatar npm install gravatar and my app.js in my app.js var gravatar = require('gravatar'); http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function(){ var…
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Google account image from email

Is it possible to retrieve a Google account profile image like a Gravatar image? I'm thinking it would be very handy to make a failover to Google image, if a gravatar is not found.
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Fetch Microsoft Exchange / Outlook profile photo using Python

Is it possible to fetch user profile photo on an MS Exchange network using Python? Currently users signup with their company domain, and I'd like to fetch their profile photo automatically. Maybe something similar to gravatar, but for Microsoft…
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Gravatar default image cache issue on localhost

I have a very strange problem with gravatar. I have a public default image on example.com/image.jpg I have changed this image on the public website quite a while ago (more than a week ago). Since then, on localhost, when i am developing the website…
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