Gravatar Update
In case anyone has been wondering about my Gravatar program - I haven’t been slacking. I’ve got it setup to automatically update every X minutes. Every day when I come home, I see a small error that I didn’t handle here and there.
I just recently went over to the Gravatar Blogs. I saw a new post oriented specifically towards me called XML Info via REST API. Here is some quoted text:
Since a lot of gravatar plugins are being written these days, Ive decided to implement a little REST based function that returns some XML giving all the essential information about a gravatar. To get the xml info about my gravatar, you would simply request it like so:http://www.gravatar.com/info/md5/b8cce166175577913dc19b2bf3f91581
This is great! It is also more reliable then the method that I was using. I was requesting a uri 4 times before giving up. I would do it to figure out the rating of the email as well (G, PG, R, X). I felt like it was such a waste of time and cached my missing addresses for 4 hours before checking for them again.
If anyone is clueless about what my program does, here is a screen shot showing the most recent commenters on my blog who have a gravatar, and have also submitted a valid Url.
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am
I’d totally put that on my blog. It’s a great program and a great incentive to leave comments, and thereby a great way to get more repeat traffic. And thereby a great way to get exposure for your blog AND others’ blogs! Whew.
March 23rd, 2005 at 3:42 pm
This is the best commenters display I have seen yet. Keep up the good work on it.
March 23rd, 2005 at 5:31 pm
it could be fun to have the same technik for the url of ur site :p
March 23rd, 2005 at 5:47 pm
I’m a little confused keusta. Could you explain that a bit?
March 23rd, 2005 at 6:44 pm
Perhaps keusta means it would be cool to see a thumbnail of your site displayed in such a manner as your gravatar latest comments. I think.
Great work on that by the way!
March 23rd, 2005 at 9:27 pm
Awesome comment disply, great work!
March 23rd, 2005 at 9:54 pm
rock
March 24th, 2005 at 6:07 am
this is a really cool program… good job man!!!
March 24th, 2005 at 1:16 pm
yep. I agree, it’s awesome. I’m still trying to figure out my software for this particular blog. Soon as I do, I’ll get it Gravatar enabled. Serendipity is a bit different than say, MT or WP. It’s a love/hate relationship.
March 24th, 2005 at 6:40 pm
Lewis…FANTASTIC job! I love it!
June 3rd, 2005 at 2:57 pm
Yes i mean a pic for the url’s website, it could be more fun and you not have to put your mail adress. (better 4 spam)