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An unofficial API for Gravatar.com mostly for scrapping user data.
$ npm install --save gravator
username
of a gravatar user is always foo
@example.com
'use strict';
const gravator = require('gravator');
gravator('username', 'options').then(res => {
console.log(res);
// {opts: 'data'}
});
gravator('foo', 'hash').then(res => {
console.log(res);
// {opts: 'foo'}
})
gravator(username, options)
username
Type: string
options
Type: string
Options:
id
Example
gravator('matt', 'id').then(res => {
console.log(res);
// // {opts: '5'}
});
hash
requestHash
profileUrl
preferredUsername
thumbnailUrl
photos
name
ims
displayName
aboutMe
currentLocation
emails
accounts
urls
gravator-cli
: CLI Tool for Gravator.
twifo
: Get user information of a twitter user.
MIT © Rishi Giri
FAQs
An unofficial API for Gravatar.com mostly for scrapping user data
The npm package gravator receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, gravator popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that gravator demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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