Welcome to unavatar.io, the ultimate avatar service that offers everything you need to easily retrieve user avatars:
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Versatile: A wide range of platforms and services including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Gravatar, etc., meaning you can rule all of them just querying against unavatar.
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Speed: Designed to be fast and efficient, all requests are being cached and delivered +200 global datacenters, allowing you to consume avatars instantly, counting more than 20 millions requests per month.
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Optimize: All the images are not only compressed on-the-fly to reduce their size and save bandwith, but also optimized to maintain a high-quality ratio. They are ready for immediate use, enhancing the overall optimization of your website or application.
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Integration: The service seamlessly incorporates into your current applications or websites with ease. We offer straightforward documentation and comprehensive support to ensure a quick and effortless onboarding experience.
In summary, unavatar.io provides versatility, speed, optimization, and effortless integration, making it the ultimate avatar retrieval service.
The service is a single endpoint exposed in unavatar.io that can resolve:
- an email: https://unavatar.io/sindresorhus@gmail.com
- an username: https://unavatar.io/kikobeats
- a domain: https://unavatar.io/reddit.com
So, no matter what type of query you use, unavatar.io has you covered. You can read more about that in providers.
Type: number|string
Default: '24h'
Range: from '1h' to '28d'
It determines the maximum quantity of time an avatar is considered fresh.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/kikobeats?ttl=1h
When you look up for a user avatar for the very first time, the service will determine it and cache it respecting TTL value.
The same resource will continue to be used until reach TTL expiration. After that, the resource will be computed, and cache as fresh, starting the cycle.
Type: string|boolean
When it can't be possible to get a user avatar, a fallback image is returned instead, and it can be personalized to fit better with your website or application style.
You can get one from boringavatars.com:
or avatar.vercel.sh:
e.g., https://unavatar.io/github/37t?fallback=https://avatar.vercel.sh/37t?size=400
or a static image:
e.g., https://unavatar.io/github/37t?fallback=https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/66378906?v=4
or even a base64 encoded image. This allows you to return a transparent, base64 encoded 1x1 pixel GIF, which can be useful when you want to use your own background colour or image as a fallback.
You can pass fallback=false to explicitly disable this behavior. In this case, a 404 Not Found HTTP status code will returned when is not possible to get the user avatar.
The service returns media content by default.
This is in this way to make easier consume the service from HTML markup.
In case you want to get a JSON payload as response, just pass json=true:
e.g., https://unavatar.io/kikobeats?json
For preventing abusive usage, the service has associated a daily rate limit based on requests IP address.
You can verify for your rate limit state checking the following headers in the response:
x-rate-limit-limit: The maximum number of requests that the consumer is permitted to make per minute.x-rate-limit-remaining: The number of requests remaining in the current rate limit window.x-rate-limit-reset: The time at which the current rate limit window resets in UTC epoch seconds.
When you reach the API quota limit, you will experience HTTP 429 errors, meaning you need to wait until the API quota reset. If you need more quota, contact us.
With unavatar.io, you can retrieve user avatars based on an email, domain, or username.
The providers are grouped based on which kind of input they can resolve.
Based on that, a subset of providers will be used for resolving the user query, being the avatar resolved the fastest provider that resolve the query successfully.
Alternatively, you can query for an individual provider.
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against deviantart.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/deviantart/spyed
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against dribbble.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/dribbble/omidnikrah
Type: domain
It resolves user avatar using duckduckgo.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/duckduckgo/gummibeer.dev
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against github.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/github/mdo
Type: domain
It resolves user avatar using google.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/google/netflix.com
Type: email
It resolves user avatar against gravatar.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/gravatar/sindresorhus@gmail.com
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against instagram.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/instagram/willsmith
Type: domain
It resolves user avatar using microlink.io.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/microlink/microlink.io
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against read.cv.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/readcv/elenatorro
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against reddit.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/reddit/kikobeats
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against soundcloud.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/soundcloud/gorillaz
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against substack.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/substack/bankless
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against telegram.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/telegram/drsdavidsoft
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against twitter.com.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/twitter/kikobeats
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against twitch.tv.
e.g., https://unavatar.io/twitch/midudev
Type: username
It resolves user avatar against youtube.com.