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04.11.08

Working With Gravatar Images


By Mads Kristensen

Gravatar is a service that associates your e-mail addresses with a picture of you for use on blog comments, forums and bulletin boards. I've been a happy user for years.

A cool thing about Gravatar images is that they can be used from any application either on a website or a desktop application. But still, they are primarily used on blogs and forums.

Today, I played with the thought of a wider use and wrote some code that makes working with Gravatars very easy on both web and the desktop. The reason for this is that I needed a way to collect Gravatar images for a list of users, but only the users that actually have a Gravatar associated with their e-mail address.

The Gravatar service doesn't have an API you can use to check if an e-mail address is associated or not. But by downloading a Gravatar image, the response header Last-Modifed is 1970-01-01 if no image is found and the default image is returned. This information can be used to only store the images users have uploaded to the Gravatar service.

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An example

The class is called Gravatar and is very simple and small. Here is an example of using the class to download a Gravatar image and save it to disk.



Download

Download the class below and put it in your App_Code folder. Then you can use the example above from any ASP.NET page or control.

Gravatar.zip (888,00 bytes)

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About the Author:
Mads Kristensen currently works as a Senior Developer at Traceworks located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mads graduated from Copenhagen Technical Academy with a multimedia degree in 2003, but has been a professional developer since 2000. His main focus is on ASP.NET but is responsible for Winforms, Windows- and web services in his daily work as well. A true .NET developer with great passion for the simple solution.

http://www.madskristensen.dk/
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