# Update user avatar using a URL
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-user-avatar-using-a-url/276188
**Category:** SSO
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [August 22, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-user-avatar-using-a-url/276188 "2023-08-22T13:57:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Mohammad\_Ghandour](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mohammad_Ghandour)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-user-avatar-using-a-url/276188/1 "2023-08-22T13:57:56Z")
Hello, I’m using SSO to login/signup users from my website to the discourse forum.
During the signup I’m sending some data in the payload (username, external\_id, avatar **as URL** , etc…). So far so good and the user’s avatar on discourse are showing the same as my webstie.
Now when a user updates his avatar on my website, it basically updates the avatar in the database to be a new URL string. How can I update the avatar on discourse as well to match the new avatar ?
Thanks in advance !
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2023, 8:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-user-avatar-using-a-url/276188/2 "2023-08-30T08:43:20Z")
There’s a `discourse connect overrides avatar` admin setting if you’re able to use that method:
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### Author:  [@Mohammad\_Ghandour](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mohammad_Ghandour)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-user-avatar-using-a-url/276188/3 "2023-09-12T09:58:31Z")
Okay thank you that worked