If you comment on this blog you will have noticed an image appears next to your comment. This image is a gravatar, and is based on your email address.
According to this page, there used to be a plugin for the OS X Address Book application to retrieve gravatars. Unfortunately the site it links to no longer works.
I therefore wrote my own, which works only on Snow Leopard. The disk image is here. To install it, drag GetGravatar.bundle to Library/Address Book Plug-Ins in your home folder and restart the Address Book application. Click on any email address to be offered the opportunity to download the corresponding gravatar. Be warned, it will replace any image assigned to that contact with their gravatar if they have one.
I’ve updated the plugin to a universal binary for OS X 10.5 and later, although I have only tried it on 64-bit intel Snow Leopard.
Update post is here.
Thanks Phil, it worked perfectly on my PPC G5 running Mac OS X 10.5.8.
Excellent! Thanks for the feedback on that – I only have x86 Snow Leopard Macs.
Phil, Can you please make one for mac’s not running Snow Leopard. Thanks
I already have: please see my comment above.
Been on gravatar site and downloaded an image. Will it automatically appear on the sites I use, such as ‘ Quizzes and Puzzles ‘ or do I have to set-up some other stuff?
Greetings.
I could not get it to work using Address Book v5.0.1 (868) until I worked through the problem: the plug-in is case sensitive, though using gravatars on the Web is not affected by case.
This works > lar@such-n-such.com
This doesn’t > Lar@such-n-such.com
Thanks for letting me know; I have now fixed that.
You are welcome, Phil. And thanks for the speedy fix.
If you’d like me to find any other hidden problems, just let me know — it’s a curse I have.
It did not work for me on Macbook Pro 2,2 Snow Leopard 10.6.3, Address Book 5.0.1 (868)
Odd; it works for me, and I have the same software versions as you on a MacBookPro5,1 (which has the same processor). Have you quit and restarted Address Book?
Other than that, it would help to know in what way it isn’t working.
This is an excellent plug-in! Thank you