Django Image Requests

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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('' % (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.