API Site is gone? #108

davidwparker · 2020-10-14T18:59:04Z

http://avatars.adorable.io/
no longer exists.

Is the only way to use via self-hosting now?

willcrisis · 2020-10-14T22:02:15Z

+1 on this. I was using it on a project, and got surprised this afternoon when all my avatars stopped working.

As a workaround, I created a Firebase Functions version that can be self-hosted "for free" while we get some responses about what happened to it. This is the repo: https://github.com/willcrisis/adorable-avatars-cloud-functions

ValentinVignal · 2020-10-15T15:51:52Z

Hello, is there any news about this ? I am using your API in several projects too

gfauchart · 2020-10-15T21:12:59Z

I've hosted the project on this domain: https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/

it's the same API as before, feel free to use it!
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/myseed
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/120/myseed
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/face/eyes2/nose2/mouth1/ff0000/120
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/list

rylnd · 2020-10-15T21:56:48Z

Hey everyone,

I'm no longer a contributor on the project so I don't have any insight into the situation, but I felt the need to chime in and say 🙏 THANK YOU 🙏 to everyone for jumping in and building these solutions. It's really awesome and heartwarming to see people rally like this ❤️ .

Speaking historically: the avatars services was built to be a self-hosted dev tool, and the http://api.adorable.io/ instance was only ever intended to drive the demo page. But it was there, and public, and free, and so people started using it! We tried our best over the years to keep it up and performant, but the amount of traffic (and costs) kept rising, and I assume that trend has continued.

So, I love seeing these ad hoc solutions as (IMO) it's getting back to the original intention of the project! But if there are things that we (the community) can do to make this more distributable/deployable, I think that would benefit everyone.

trptcolin · 2020-10-15T22:11:11Z

Sorry for the sudden outage, and many thanks to those who have posted workarounds and alternative hosting!

This outage boils down to an issue of an expired credit card with Heroku, where it's hosted, and the Heroku account getting suspended due to unpaid bills.

In getting ready to update the CC, and considering the price tag (we're now at ~$280/month), I think this is a good seam for us to go ahead and shut down the free hosted API.

I know that it's annoying to have a dependency start failing on you like this with no warning, and I'm sorry for that. Unfortunately I think there's no great way to provide an advance warning here, since there are no accounts or anything - but I'm sure there are decent solutions we could brainstorm in hindsight.

In any case, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I think your best option will be to self-host, or to point at an alternative hosted domain.

aldrio · 2020-10-15T22:23:59Z

Docker image for self hosters https://hub.docker.com/r/aldrio/adorable-avatars

FlorianKoerner · 2020-10-16T10:04:17Z

Very sad to see that the API is currently not available. I liked your avatar style.

I am the maintainer of DiceBear Avatars and can suggest this as an alternative as well.

This commit replaces the API used to generate an Adorable Avatar due to the original one been shut down by its creator. See itsthatguy/avatars-api-middleware#108

The adorable.io service shut down as mentioned in this issue: itsthatguy/avatars-api-middleware#108 The new service URL is a service run by another individual. As the service’s code is public we should implement it as a django-app. Project sources are available: https://github.com/rylnd/avatars-utils and https://github.com/adorableio/avatars-api-middleware

@gfauchart

…orables" instead thanks to @gfauchart at itsthatguy/avatars-api-middleware#108 (comment)

ianhobbs · 2020-11-10T02:16:02Z

Thanks @gfauchart I guess we will need to do the same to maintain the service.... Its so good!!

dariocoroneldev · 2021-01-10T18:22:18Z

ther is no more site?

The Adorable's API seems to be down: itsthatguy/avatars-api-middleware#108 I fixed it with an alternative which do exactly the same (same project, hosted elsewhere).

viking2917 · 2021-09-08T16:32:11Z

I've hosted the project on this domain: https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/

it's the same API as before, feel free to use it!
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/myseed
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/120/myseed
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/face/eyes2/nose2/mouth1/ff0000/120
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/list

Hi @gfauchart Thanks for hosting at https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/. Have been using for awhile now successfully, it seems to have stopped working recently, I get "ERROR: Failed to contact the origin".

Is that intentional? Thank you!

gfauchart · 2021-09-08T16:40:33Z

Hello @viking2917 ,
Sorry, the bill was getting too high and I ran out of AWS credit :(
some links are still working because the CDN is still up with some cached links, but I had to turn off the webserver

viking2917 · 2021-09-08T16:42:41Z

Hello @viking2917 ,
Sorry, the bill was getting too high and I ran out of AWS credit :(
some links are still working because the CDN is still up with some cached links, but I had to turn off the webserver

@gfauchart makes sense. Thanks for hosting for a time!

AlphaWong · 2021-10-14T16:58:45Z

Docker image for self hosters https://hub.docker.com/r/aldrio/adorable-avatars

I add Heroku support based on ur code

https://github.com/AlphaWong/adorable-avatars

So we should be able to generate identicon for fun after deployed to Heroku

M4GNV5 · 2021-11-25T20:57:36Z

We are currently hosting the service at https://adorable-avatars.broken.services/

https://adorable-avatars.broken.services/myseed
https://adorable-avatars.broken.services/120/myseed
https://adorable-avatars.broken.services/face/eyes2/nose2/mouth1/ff0000/120
https://adorable-avatars.broken.services/list

Its running on a Hetzner root server (no unexpected AWS/Heroku bills). Its mainly for our in-house projects and some personal projects, feel free to use it. As long as the server is mostly idling i will keep it running, but if it drains too much ressources it might become broken (as the domain name suggests lol)

FlorianKoerner · 2021-11-25T21:25:54Z

I like the domain name. 😄

asbiin · 2022-07-04T21:17:59Z

I made this package to replace the avatar service: https://github.com/asbiin/laravel-adorable https://packagist.org/packages/asbiin/laravel-adorable

polettix · 2022-11-01T14:11:23Z

Not sure whose this site is: http://adorableavatars.com/

davidwparker changed the title ~~Site is gone?~~ API Site is gone? Oct 14, 2020

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User avatars are returning 404 CaptainFact/captain-fact#148

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leosuncin mentioned this issue Oct 22, 2020

Replace Adorable Avatars leosuncin/contact-list#120

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NotGrm pushed a commit to NotGrm/ember-initials that referenced this issue Oct 27, 2020

Replace Adorable Avatar API

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This commit replaces the API used to generate an Adorable Avatar due to the original one been shut down by its creator. See itsthatguy/avatars-api-middleware#108

This was referenced Oct 27, 2020

Replace Adorable Avatar API NotGrm/ember-initials#1

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Replace Adorable Avatar API EmberExperts/ember-initials#74

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ibpavlov pushed a commit to osi-open-source/laravel-teams-logging that referenced this issue Nov 5, 2020

"adorable.io" server is no longer available. Use "hello-avatar.com/ad…

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…orables" instead thanks to @gfauchart at itsthatguy/avatars-api-middleware#108 (comment)

ibpavlov mentioned this issue Nov 5, 2020

"adorable.io" server is no longer available. Use "hello-avatar.com/adorables" instead osi-open-source/laravel-teams-logging#3

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williamstein mentioned this issue Dec 2, 2020

the so-called "adorable" avatar feature is now broken sagemathinc/cocalc#5054

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Adorable Avatars is down LucasKuhn/recomendo#68

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The Adorable's API seems to be down: itsthatguy/avatars-api-middleware#108 I fixed it with an alternative which do exactly the same (same project, hosted elsewhere).

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