Bunto Avatar

A Bunto plugin for rendering GitHub avatars

Bunto Avatar makes it easy to add GitHub avatars to your Bunto site by specifying a username. If performance is a concern, Bunto Avatar is deeply integrated with the GitHub avatar API, ensuring avatars are cached and load in parallel. It even automatically upgrades users to Retina images, when supported.

Installation

Add the following to your site's Gemfile:

gem 'bunto-avatar'

And add the following to your site's _config.yml file:

gems:
  - bunto-avatar

Usage

Simply add the following, anywhere you'd like a user's avatar to appear:

{% avatar [USERNAME] %}

With [USERNAME] being the user's GitHub username:

{% avatar hubot %}

That will output:

<img class="avatar avatar-small" src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/hubot?v=3&amp;s=40" alt="hubot" srcset="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/hubot?v=3&amp;s=40 1x, https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/hubot?v=3&amp;s=80 2x, https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/hubot?v=3&amp;s=120 3x, https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/hubot?v=3&amp;s=160 4x" width="40" height="40" />

Customizing

You can customize the size of the resulting avatar by passing the size argument:

{% avatar hubot size=50 %}

That will output:

<img class="avatar" src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/hubot?v=3&amp;s=50" alt="hubot" srcset="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/hubot?v=3&amp;s=50 1x, https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/hubot?v=3&amp;s=100 2x, https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/hubot?v=3&amp;s=150 3x, https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/hubot?v=3&amp;s=200 4x" width="50" height="50" />

Passing the username as variable

You can also pass the username as a variable, like this:

{% assign username="hubot" %}
{% avatar {{ username }} %}

Or, if the variable is someplace a bit more complex, like a loop:

{% assign employees = "alice|bob" | split:"|" %}
{% for employee in employees %}
  {% avatar user=employee %}
{% endfor %}