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Each Gravatar profile is connected to an email address. When you use this email around the web, your entire profile comes with you.

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For developers & app makers

Unlock personalized user experiences.

Gravatar helps developers create personal signup flows and tailored user journeys — in a privacy forward way. Gravatar can be integrated with your app in mere minutes.

Use the developer API

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const sha256 = require( 'js-sha256' );

function getGravatarURL( email ) {
  // Trim leading and trailing whitespace from
  // an email address and force all characters
  // to lower case
  const address = String( email ).trim().toLowerCase();

  // Create a SHA256 hash of the final string
  const hash = sha256( address );

  // Grab the actual image URL
  return `https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/${ hash }`;
}

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function get_gravatar_url( $email ) {
  // Trim leading and trailing whitespace from
  // an email address and force all characters
  // to lower case
  $address = strtolower( trim( $email ) );

  // Create an SHA256 hash of the final string
  $hash = hash( 'sha256', $address );

  // Grab the actual image URL
  return 'https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/' . $hash;
}

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