Get GitHub avatar from email or name
Solution 1:
You can append .png
to the URL for the User's profile to get redirected to their avatar. You can add the query param size
to specify a size smaller than the default of 460px wide (i.e. it won't allow larger than 460).
Examples:
https://github.com/twbs.png
https://github.com/npm.png?size=200
https://github.com/github.png?size=40
Solution 2:
https://developer.github.com/v3/users/#get-a-single-user
Use the /users/:user endpoint. Should be under avatar_url
in the returned json.
For example, my avatar_url can be found by hitting this url.
Edit
There is another way I can think of that is kind of roundabout. Since GitHub uses Gravatar, if you know the email associated with the account, do an md5 hash of the lowercase, stripped email address and construct a url like http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/[md5_here].