Mravatar - Mastodonwide Recognized Avatars

A Mastodonwide Recognized Avatar API

This API provides you with avatar link or proxied avatar file through fediverse account name (@username@localpart).

API Usages

/avatar/<username> (GET)

https://mravatar.dragoncloud.win/avatar/@holgerhuo@dragon-fly.club
https://mravatar.dragoncloud.win/avatar/holgerhuo@dragon-fly.club

GET request https://mravatar.dragoncloud.win/avatar/@holgerhuo@dragon-fly.club or https://mravatar.dragoncloud.win/avatar/holgerhuo@dragon-fly.club

Query Strings

• proxied
  • true Enable proxying from Mravatar
  • false (default) Retrieve 302 redirect
• no-cache
  • true Force request latest avartar
  • false Use Mravatar cache (if exists). Cache is refreshed every 3h.
• default
  • <url-encoded-img-url> Set fallback image url. (Defaults to https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/mastodon/mastodon@latest/public/avatars/original/missing.png)

Example: https://mravatar.dragoncloud.win/avatar/holgerhuo@dragon-fly.club?no-cache=true&proxied=true&default=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F4%2F48%2FMastodon_Logotype_%2528Simple%2529.svg

Deployment

Dependencies

Mravatar requires Python3.7+, which means you'll have to compile Python3.7 yourself if you are on CentOS 7

Make sure you have python3, pip3, python3-devel and virtualenv installed.

You also need uWSGI for the backend server. Feel free to use other backends.

Procedures

Create a new user. Clone this repo. Setup virtualenv. Copy dist files. Start your server. Enjoy!

pip3 install virtualenv
useradd mravatar
sudo su - mravatar
git clone https://github.com/HolgerHuo/mravatar.git mravatar
cd mravatar
virtualenv mravatar
source mravatar/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirement.txt
exit
cp /home/mravatar/mravatar/dist/mravatar.service /etc/systemd/system/mravatar.service
cp /home/mravatar/mravatar/dist/mravatar.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/mravatar.conf
systemctl enable --now mravatar
systemctl reload nginx

License

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

©️ Holger Huo, Mastodon

@holgerhuo@dragon-fly.club