How can I get the Google+ profile picture of an email address?

Question

how can we get the profile pic of google+ only with the email? or in the worse case, get the user id with the email?

We have a list of clients with their emails, and we want to display their profile picture in that list.

Is this posible in Javascript or PHP?

Regards

I think this is possible with the [Google+ API](https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/). PHP is the way to go as this is more server side. — RepeaterCreeper, Jan 04 '16 at 18:55
Not sure about google you can look in to https://en.gravatar.com/ — E_p, Jan 04 '16 at 18:56
I have answered a similar question here. Please take a look to see how easy is to accomplish this with a totally free and open source project https://stackoverflow.com/a/46355569/845296 — epool, Sep 22 '17 at 03:15
Possible duplicate of [Retrieving a user's public google/gmail picture](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25606322/retrieving-a-users-public-google-gmail-picture) — Donald Duck, Dec 15 '18 at 14:20

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Looks like Google does not allow you to get the profile picture just with the client's email. However, the API does allow.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Jan 04 '16 at 19:02

Thanks, this helps us a lot!!! we can't search by email, but at least we can search by name. – Nixis Innovation Jan 05 '16 at 13:27

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 24 '21 at 09:29

There is an amazing API called gravatar

Follow this steps below

first you need to create md5 hash for the email address.

then attach the md5 hash to below url

https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/{md5 hash of email address}

eg.

https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/205e460b479e2e5b48aec07710c08d50

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