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user40477
user40477

Reputation: 67

how do sites automagically grab profile pictures?

Some sites have the ability to grab your profile picture after you sign up for the first time without the user actually uploading a pic. I think stackoverflow has this functionality at sign as well....How does it work?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 973

Answers (4)

Jared
Jared

Reputation: 8610

stackoverflow uses gravatars which are linked by your email address. You can read more about how gravatar works on their developer resources page.

Upvotes: 6

Chad Moran
Chad Moran

Reputation: 12854

They're using OpenID. Some OpenID providers allow you to upload a profile picture or it wil associate it with your Gravatar's e-mail address (http://en.gravatar.com/).

Upvotes: 1

bendewey
bendewey

Reputation: 40245

There is a site called http://gravatar.com that takes a MD5 hash of your email to load a profile picture

Upvotes: 3

alex
alex

Reputation: 490403

It uses gravatar.com I believe. You associate an avatar with your email and then sites can use your email to locate your avatar. There is a plugin for Wordpress. Or google search 'gravatar API' to put it on your own site.

Good luck!

Upvotes: 6

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