IndieWeb Avatar, yet another Eleventy Image Service API
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IndieWeb Avatar, yet another Eleventy Image Service API
The Eleventy API ecosystem is growing (again).
I use Twitter avatars everywhere. They require an Twitter Developer account and an API key to implement. They require the talent being pictured to have a Twitter account (not everyone does). I wanted a more open alternative. I decided to build a little image service that would fetch the icon from any web site, optimize it using Eleventy Image, and return that instead.
Demo #
If you want a live demo in the wild, check out the Eleventy Leaderboards (via Speedlify).
Source Code #
Only one path parameter is supported right now: /[url]/ (must be encoded via e.g. encodeURIComponent)
My version is running on https://v1.indieweb-avatar.11ty.dev/ using the same versioning via Netlify Branch Subdomains strategy as the screenshot and sparkline services.
It makes use of Netlify’s On-Demand Builders to reduce the number of external HTTP requests to generate the images.
Deploy your own #
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