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IndieWeb Avatar

Contents

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

Usage

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

IndieWeb Avatar for 11ty.dev/ IndieWeb Avatar for a11yproject.com/ IndieWeb Avatar for netlify.com/ 
<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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