A blazing fast API for Minecraft faces

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Crafatar

Crafatar serves Minecraft avatars based on the skin for use in external applications. Inspired by Gravatar (hence the name) and Minotar.

Image manipulation is done by lwip. 3D renders are created with node-canvas, based on math by confuser.

Contributions welcome!

There are usually a few open issues.
We welcome any opinions or advice in discussions as well as pull requests.
Issues tagged with show where we could especially need your help!

Examples

Usage / Documentation

Please visit the website for details.

Contact

You can follow us on twitter
Open an issue on GitHub
You can join IRC in #crafatar on irc.esper.net.

Installation on Heroku

Installation on Dokku

[dokku server]

Install the dokku-redis plugin.

dokku redis:start
dokku apps:create crafatar
dokku config:set crafatar BIND=0.0.0.0 PORT=5000

For persistent images and logs:

dokku docker-options:add crafatar deploy "-v /var/lib/crafatar/images:/app/images"
dokku docker-options:add crafatar deploy "-v /var/log/crafatar:/app/logs"

If you want to listen on extra domains:

dokku domains crafatar:add example.com

[your machine]

Add dokku remote and deploy!

git remote add dokku dokku@example.com:crafatar
git push dokku master

Installation on your machine

Use io.js
Install Cairo.
npm install
Start redis-server
npm start
Access http://localhost:3000

Tests

npm test

If you want to debug failing tests:

# show logs during tests
env VERBOSE_TEST=true npm test

It can be helpful to monitor redis commands to debug caching errors:

redis-cli monitor

README.md