microlinkhq/unavatar

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unavatar.io is a unified avatar API that retrieves user profile images from a single URL by username, email, or domain across 72 platforms including Instagram, GitHub, X/Twitter, YouTube, and Gravatar. It is open source (MIT) with a hosted service, offering on-the-fly image optimization, caching, and optional self-hosting.

Use cases

• get a user's avatar from their social username
• fetch profile picture by email address
• retrieve website favicon or logo by domain
• unified avatar endpoint for multiple social networks
• show user avatars in my app without API keys
• fallback avatar resolution across providers
• serve optimized profile images at scale

When to choose

• you need avatars from many social platforms with one consistent API
• you want a drop-in image URL with no SDK or API key setup
• you need automatic image compression and caching for high traffic
• you want an open-source option you can self-host

When to avoid

• you only need avatars from a single provider with an official API
• you require strict privacy compliance since it scrapes third-party platforms
• free tier attribution on your production site is unacceptable and you cannot pay
• you need guaranteed uptime SLAs from the upstream social networks

Facets

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http-server image-processing api-framework caching web-scraping web-development apis social-media media self-hosted cloud avatar-api profile-images gravatar social-networks image-proxy unified-avatar open-source-api web-server nodejs

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