Original submission from, and big thanks to Paul Kenjora.
Modified and improved by Carly Stambaugh.
import hashlib
import urllib
from django import template
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
register = template.Library()
# return only the URL of the gravatar
# TEMPLATE USE: {{ email|gravatar_url:150 }}
@register.filter
def gravatar_url(email, size=40):
default = "https://example.com/static/images/defaultavatar.jpg"
return "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/%s?%s" % (hashlib.md5(email.lower()).hexdigest(), urllib.urlencode({'d':default, 's':str(size)}))
# return an image tag with the gravatar
# TEMPLATE USE: {{ email|gravatar:150 }}
@register.filter
def gravatar(email, size=40):
url = gravatar_url(email, size)
return mark_safe('<img src="%s" width="%d" height="%d">' % (url, size, size))
See also: django-gravatar project and if you use Python 3 try out libgravatar. Both are third party libraries and not officially supported by Gravatar.