Comments on: Filling Mac Address Book Pictures with Gravatars

By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:22:15 +0000

Thanks for mentioning the iPhone app. I’ve tried a couple such apps, and unfortunately, don’t really like any all that well so far. I started working on one of my own back when the iPhone first came out. But my iPhone programming skills need to increase a bit more to make it a reality.

By: DO

DO — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:55:48 +0000

There’s at least one iPhone app that will sync images from gravatar on the phone rather than on your desktop… called zync. If there isn’t a gravatar image you can choose from a variety of place-holder sets.

By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:50:46 +0000

That should be doable, Kirk. If you look at the scripts I’ve posted you should be able to find many of the parts to make it happen.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:22:39 +0000

Let me see if I can explain this easily…

I have a large list (200-300) that I imported into address book. Worked great, I have all the information I need. The ‘note’ field contains the name of a JPG (A2299.JPG). I have all the JPG files. Is it possible to write a script that will combine the information in order to assign the picture to the correct contact? I realize it can be done manually, but I was hoping to automate. Thanks!

By: Contact Sync | alexking.org

Contact Sync | alexking.org — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:50:26 +0000

[...] also used this script to import a bunch of Gravatars into my address book – something similar with Twitter avatars, [...]

By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:17:51 +0000

I’m not aware of anything that does that. That’s an interesting idea, though. I hadn’t realized Google was indexing those images. I was looking into expanding my script to also grab Twitter and Facebook images. I’ll have to consider what Google has too. Got any links for details about what they’re doing?

By: Philippe

Philippe — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:47:04 +0000

Do you now of any script or Address Book plugin that would look for pictures in Google Images or Bing Images, and would propose to select one of the images coming back to replace the Address Book picture? (a little bit like those Apps that do it for Itunes)? Thx. As Google is indeed indexing Facebook images, it would be a very convenient way to do it.

By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:56:10 +0000

Thanks for the reports, Joost and Nick.

The reason I included the trim_email is that I ran across people who stored notes after the actual e-mail address in Address Book. If you put text in parenthesis after the address, Address Book and Mail will strip it off when composing a message.

Without the trim_email, any addresses with notes will calculate out to a wrong MD5 and will not be able to find the correct gravatar.

I’d like to see if I can track down the problem and fix it so it will work in all cases. Were you getting any kind of error message before you made that change?

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:13:16 +0000

That seems to do the trick for me too

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:10:02 +0000

I have to change:

set grav_file to (my get_gravatar(my trim_email(one_email_address)))

set grav_file to (my get_gravatar(one_email_address))

in order for this to work.