netaskd/lavatar repository overview

⁠Lavatar

Lavatar is an LDAP-backend avatar server with Gravatar <https://secure.gravatar.com/site/implement>_ like URL support.

Lavatar fetches all email addresses from an LDAP server with a given search filter and stores them with their md5hash on Redis. Per defualt Lavatar also use Redis to cache the avatar images.

For now lavatar only support image requests.

⁠Quick start

You can use the docker container image and the docker-compose example to test this app:

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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rroemhild/lavatar/master/docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up

and test in browser: http://localhost:5000/avatar/982391f62e589420d9fdb56a62c5e16c⁠

⁠Install

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git clone https://github.com/rroemhild/lavatar.git
cd lavatar
pip install -r requirements.txt gevent
cp lavatar/default_settings.py settings.py

Configure lavatar in settings.py and run python production.py example.

⁠Image Request

The default image size for the base request is 80x80, max size limit is 1024x1024.

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http://localhost:5000/avatar/HASH

Set s or size to scale the avatar image

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http://localhost:5000/avatar/HASH?s=160

Set d or default for the default image available in static/img.

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http://localhost:5000/avatar/HASH?d=keyword

Set m or method to resize Image with the specified method: 'crop', 'cover', 'contain', 'width', 'height' or 'thumbnail'. Default is thumbnail

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http://localhost:5000/avatar/HASH?s=120&m=cover

Set w or width to resize width and h or height to resize height.

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http://localhost:5000/avatar/HASH?h=120&m=height