Gravatar in Gmail

Posted by jon on Mar 14, 2009

UPDATE: I’ve posted a new version of this script here. The version on this page no longer works.

Earlier today I hacked together another GreaseMonkey script. This one adds a Gravatar of the person the email was from to Gmail when reading an individual message. It’s inspired by the Thunderbird integration I read about here a while back. Here’s a screenshot of it for a better understanding of what it does:
Gravatar in Gmail

It’s really just a prototype honestly, but it was far enough along to make me happy for now. A couple of limitations I’d like to correct some day (if I ever get around to it) would be to modify it to work with multiple open messages and to only display the image if the email address actually has a gravatar (currently it just displays the default gravatar image in this case). It would also be nice to clean up how the image is added to the email – currently it’s a long dom navigation. I’ve posted the script here if anyone is interested in giving it a try (or updating it). Also, if you didn’t already know about it (because I didn’t) the Gmail team has built a nice little API for people developing GreaseMonkey scripts.

As always, feedback welcome.

Gravatar in Gmail — Matt Mullenweg:

[...] Jon experiments with Gravatar in Gmail. I would love to see more of this. We also need a better way to get Gravatars into your Apple address book / iPhone for people that don’t have a set picture.(0) « Vietnam School [...]

March 15th, 2009 | 3:29 am

Gravatar in Gmail | Bakkel dot com:

[...] is nu een greasemonkey script die de gravatar laat zien (als hij er één heeft natuurlijk) van diegene die jou een mail [...]

March 15th, 2009 | 5:31 am

rizal:

really great job! \m/

March 15th, 2009 | 12:51 pm

Gravatar in Mail | boio.ro:

[...] am dat peste un Greasemonkey Script care adauga Gravatar in Gmail. ceea ce e un inceput foarte bun. Poate ca Gmail va include functia ca default si altii ii vor lua [...]

March 15th, 2009 | 7:09 pm

Nick:

Hi Jon, I had to change “@include https://mail.google.com/mail/*” to @include https://mail.google.com/* to make this work with my apps account; but thanks, works great !!

March 16th, 2009 | 3:26 am

Aaron Johnson – Links: 3-15-2009:

[...] » Gravatar in Gmail » Jon Fox When is someone going to join email and social software in an OOTB application? Seems silly that I have to download a greasemonkey script or a FireFox plugin to get this behavior. (categories: social socialsoftware greasemonkey gmail ) [...]

March 16th, 2009 | 3:47 am

Gravatar en Gmail | Universo Wordpress:

[...] Jon Fox desarrolló un script para GreaseMonkey que nos muestra el gravatar de nuestros contactos en la vista individual del mensaje. El script se puede descargar desde aquí. [...]

March 17th, 2009 | 9:03 pm

Get Gravatar in Gmail | TechRaga:

[...] : Gravatar in Gmail – Jon’s [...]

March 18th, 2009 | 6:27 am

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Hmm, I can't seem to get this working on Google Apps or even GMail normal. I guess Google updated their UI which broke this.