pyLibravatar

PyLibravatar is an easy way to make use of the federated Libravatar avatar hosting service from within your Python applications.

See the project page for the bug tracker and downloads.

Installation

To install using pip, simply do this:

$ pip install pylibravatar

Usage

To generate the correct avatar URL based on someone's email address, use the following:

>>> from libravatar import libravatar_url
>>> url = libravatar_url(email='person@example.com')
>>> print(f'<img src="{url}">')

Here are other options you can provide:

>>> url = libravatar_url(openid = 'http://example.org/id/Bob', https = True, size = 96, default = 'mm')

See the Libravatar documentation for more information on the special values for the "default" parameter.

License

Copyright (C) 2011, 2013, 2015 Francois Marier francois@libravatar.org

Copyright (C) 2016-2026 Oliver Falk oliver@linux-kernel.at

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.