IndieWeb Avatar

Feed this runtime service a URL and it will extract an avatar image using these sources:

1. <link rel="apple-touch-icon">
2. <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed">
3. <link rel="icon">
4. favicon.ico
5. favicon.ico that isn’t an .ico file
6. First <img> in <header>

All rel lookups match against attribute values that are space separated lists.

Open Source Jump to heading #

• 11ty/api-indieweb-avatar on GitHub

Usage Jump to heading #

Try it out on the Eleventy API Explorer.

Image URLs have the format:

https://v1.indieweb-avatar.11ty.dev/:url/

• url must be URI encoded.

Samples Jump to heading #

<img src="https://v1.indieweb-avatar.11ty.dev/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.11ty.dev%2F/" alt="IndieWeb Avatar for 11ty.dev/" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="50" height="50">
<img src="https://v1.indieweb-avatar.11ty.dev/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.a11yproject.com%2F/" alt="IndieWeb Avatar for a11yproject.com/" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="50" height="50">
<img src="https://v1.indieweb-avatar.11ty.dev/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netlify.com%2F/" alt="IndieWeb Avatar for netlify.com/" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="50" height="50">

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