Gravatar Lookup in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Resolve emails to profiles by the row. Pulls the public Gravatar profile for each email — Google Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

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B2fx=VERVE("gravatarlookup", A2, "field", "profileUrl")

Profile Url

Thumbnail Url

Display Name

About Me

[email protected]

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https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/08ccd5c0bdd8…

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Ways to use it

Turn IDs into detail

Fill =VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "profileUrl") down a column of identifiers and expand each into full, structured detail — no manual lookups.

Enrich a table in place

Add Gravatar Lookup beside your existing rows to append the fields you were missing, right where the data lives.

Keep it current

Let auto-refresh re-resolve the column on a schedule so the enriched data never goes stale.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "profileUrl")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "profileUrl")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Profile Url
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "profileUrl")
Thumbnail Url
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "thumbnailUrl")
PhotosPremium
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "photos")
Photos › Value
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "photos.0.value")
Photos › Type
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "photos.0.type")
Display Name
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "displayName")
About Me
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "aboutMe")
Current Location
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "currentLocation")
Company
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "company")
Contact InfoPremium
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "contactInfo")
AccountsPremium
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "accounts")
Accounts › Domain
=VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "accounts.0.domain")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

Gravatar Lookup, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Gravatar Lookup into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("gravatarlookup", "[email protected]", "field", "profileUrl") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Gravatar Lookup?

Gravatar Lookup returns profileUrl, thumbnailUrl, photos.0.value, photos.0.type and displayName, plus 4 more — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Which Gravatar Lookup fields need a paid plan?

photos, contactInfo and accounts are included from the Starter plan up. On the Free plan the cell returns #PREMIUM(field) rather than a wrong or empty value, so it's always obvious which one to upgrade for. Every other field works on Free.

Can I fill a whole column of Gravatar Lookup at once?

Yes. Put your email values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Gravatar Lookup cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Gravatar Lookup work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

Gravatar Lookup

Turn IDs into detail

Enrich a table in place

Keep it current

Gravatar Lookup, answered

Put Gravatar Lookup in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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