Django Gravatar is a lightweight Django application that allows you to insert a Gravatar image in your templates.

The best way to install Django Gravatar is use easy_install.

easy_install django-simple-gravatar

If you prefer install it from source, grab the git repository from github and run setup.py

$ git clone git://github.com/skitoo/django-gravatar.git
$ cd django-gravatar
$ python setup.py install

Now Django Gravatar is in your PYTHONPATH. You can add this app in your project settings.py file.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
   # other apps
   'django_gravatar',
)

You can specify a default image url, Gravatar will use it if it cannot find an account associated with the email parameter. In your settings project file add this variable

GRAVATAR_DEFAULT_URL = "http://www.example.com/mydefaultavatar.jpg"

Now you can use Django Gravatar tag in your templates. First import template tag.

{% load gravatar %}

Django Gravatar offers you two tags. The first one return gravatar image url.

{% gravatar_url user.email %}

# you can pass an optional argument to specify the avatar size. By default size is 80.

{% gravatar_url user.email 40 %}

The second one return an HTML img tag.

{% gravatar user.email %}

# you can also pass an optional size argument here.

{% gravatar user.email 40 %}

# this tag provides another argument to specify <img /> arguments.

{% gravatar user.email 40 'class="gravatar"' %}

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