SHAvatar

SHAvatar is a Self-Hosted Avatar proposal.

The idea is everyone should be able to host himself his avatar image, provided to use its own domain name.

Specifications

The domain name of an email address can be use as an entry point to display the avatar matching email.

Image request follow Gravatar's rules (except for the domain name obsiouly).

Example

If the e-mail address is nickname@domain.tld the image request will be https://domain.tld/avatar/aa745c786b697726fbbc0a3679d8de8e.

PHP server implementation

Requirements

Please see the composer.json file.

Install

1. Copy the avatar directory in the web-root of the virtual host your HTTP server
2. Add those requirements in your composer.json:

"silex/silex": "^2.0",
"intervention/image": "^2.5"

And run composer update.

Usage

Add avatar image

1. The image file must be named {HASH}-80x80.jpg (where {HASH} is a MD5 hash of your email)
2. Put the file in avatar/images directory

Test locally

1. Start local Web server: php -S localhost:8000
2. Request http://localhost:8000/avatar/{HASH} in your web browser

Demo

arnaud(at)ligny(dot)org ➡️ http://ligny.org/avatar/9ea5082df57281310fa93db64c70f88b

License

SHAvatar is a free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

Copyright (c) Arnaud Ligny