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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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Blurry downscaled images in Chrome

I am using gravatars and it's rather often when I downscale them with css, and I believe Google Chrome used to do it properly until recently ( I may be wrong, not sure when exactly the problem started to occur ) but now, images get blurred when…
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How to go from []bytes to get hexadecimal

http://play.golang.org/p/SKtaPFtnKO func md(str string) []byte { h := md5.New() io.WriteString(h, str) fmt.Printf("%x", h.Sum(nil)) // base 16, with lower-case letters for a-f return h.Sum(nil) } All I need is Hash-key string…
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How to generate the random default "gravatars" like on Stack Overflow?

How does Stack Overflow auto-generate the gravatars for those users who do not upload a picture or who have not created a Gravatar icon? Where do these random avatars come from, and how can I generate them for my own site?
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Gravatar : Is there a default image?

I have implemented gravatar for a portal I am building and wanted to know if there is a default image URL for gravatar? Not all people who visit the site are logged in or have email addresses, in such a case, is there a default image that can be…
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Gravatar: How do I know if a user has a real picture

I have gotten the gravatar service working on my site. But I would like to know if the user has uploaded their picture or not. Is there a way to know this?
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How do I implement Gravatar in Laravel?

What's the fastest way to implement Gravatar URLs in Laravel? I have a mandatory email address field, but I don't want to create a new column for Gravatars, and I'd prefer to use the native Auth::user() attributes.
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Loading gravatar using jquery

Just trying to crate a simple comment form on a blog. I want to load the user's gravatar (using jQuery) when he/she writes this in the email box. How can I do that?
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gravatar highest resolution

I show a gravatr image of users in my site. How can I know the best highest resolution to use? e.g. which parameter "s" should be. https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=250 of course it depends in the user image, but gravatr must know the…
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How to add a link that would let user change their Gravatar on my site?

How do I add a link that would let user change their Gravatar on my site? (The same way you can change your Gravatar on Wordpress) Thanks, Kenneth
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Getting a facebook profile picture from an email address

I'm trying to get a user's facebook profile picture based on their email address. Effectively, I want to offer my users the option between using Gravatar for their image, or Facebook. However, the only way I know of to get a user's facebook image is…
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Office 365 profile avatar picture

We have a system that will integrate in some ways with Office 365, and we would like to use the profile picture set by the user in the Office 365 system, rather than storing this image/reference ourselves. However, I can't find any way of accessing…
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Finding google profile image url when user is logged in using Google's OpenID provider

is there a way to find the the profile image of a user that's logged in using his/her google account (through OpenID). I've checked stackoverflow and it seems they're using gravatar service to assign an avatar to the email address. but it should be…
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How to build a url of a GRAVATAR image from a given email

There is a simple way with php, a simple script or URL manipulation to build a URL for the gravatar image corresponding to an email? Ex. http://gravatar.com/avatars/avatar.php?email=myemail@myserver.com and this return a jpeg or png image. If there…
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Should I cache Gravatar icon or access image directly?

In the context of having a list of user that has an icon next to their name, is it better to cache all images of Gravatar for few minutes or it's fine to directly display the image from Gravatar? The list is around 200 users on every pages.
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ASP.NET MVC helper for accessing Gravatar images

Whilst the Gravatar service's API (well, it's really just a URL) is pretty straightforward, is there a simple helper method out there that does a good job of reflecting all the options available for Gravatar? Image size Default image (when user…
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