django-gravatar

A lightweight django-gravatar app. Includes helper methods for interacting with gravatars outside of template code.

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Features

Helper methods for constructing a gravatar url and checking an email for an existing gravatar
Templatetags for generating a gravatar url or gravatar <img> tag.
Full test suite!

Installing

Install from PyPi:

You can pip install the app directly from GitHub:

$ pip install git+git://github.com/twaddington/django-gravatar.git#egg=DjangoGravatar

Alternatively, you can now install directly from PyPi!

$ pip install django-gravatar2

Make sure you install django-gravatar2 as there are several other incompatible django-gravatar libraries available.

Add django_gravatar to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...
    'django_gravatar',
)

Basic Usage

Use in code:

from django_gravatar.helpers import get_gravatar_url, has_gravatar, get_gravatar_profile_url, calculate_gravatar_hash

url = get_gravatar_url('alice@example.com', size=150)
gravatar_exists = has_gravatar('bob@example.com')
profile_url = get_gravatar_profile_url('alice@example.com')
email_hash = calculate_gravatar_hash('alice@example.com')

Use in templates:

{% load gravatar %}

{% gravatar_url user.email 150 %}
# https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/hash.jpg?size=150

{% gravatar user.email 150 %}
# <img class="gravatar" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/hash.jpg?size=150" width="150" height="150" alt="" />

{% gravatar user.email 150 "user@example.com" %}
# <img class="gravatar" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/hash.jpg?size=150" width="150" height="150" alt="user@example.com" />

{% gravatar_profile_url user.email %}
# https://secure.gravatar.com/hash

Configuring

The following options can be configured in your settings.py:

GRAVATAR_URL # Gravatar base url. Defaults to 'http://www.gravatar.com/'

GRAVATAR_SECURE_URL # Gravatar base secure https url. Defaults to 'https://secure.gravatar.com/'

GRAVATAR_DEFAULT_SIZE # Gravatar size in pixels. Defaults to '80'

GRAVATAR_DEFAULT_IMAGE # An image url or one of the following: 'mm', 'identicon', 'monsterid', 'wavatar', 'retro'. Defaults to 'mm'

GRAVATAR_DEFAULT_RATING # One of the following: 'g', 'pg', 'r', 'x'. Defaults to 'g'

GRAVATAR_DEFAULT_SECURE # True to use https by default, False for plain http. Defaults to True

Contributing