# microlinkhq/unavatar

Get unified user avatar from social networks, including Instagram, SoundCloud, Telegram, Twitter, YouTube & more.

Repository: https://github.com/microlinkhq/unavatar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/unavatar
Homepage: https://unavatar.io
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: avatar, domain, email, github, gravatar, instagram, microlink, telegram, twitter, youtube
Last push: 2026-08-26T07:21:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3059, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 256}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1460, forks 86 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:47.318923+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: http-server, image-processing, api-framework, caching, web-scraping
- domain: web-development, apis, social-media, media
- platform: self-hosted, cloud
- tags: avatar-api, profile-images, gravatar, social-networks, image-proxy, unified-avatar, open-source-api, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- microlinkhq/unavatar (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:47.318923+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:35:24.947930+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microlinkhq/unavatar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:47.318923+00:00, sha 1d19e4c7e5c3)
  - homepage: https://unavatar.io (fetched 2026-08-29T11:44:08.129745+00:00, sha a649b06b379d)
  - site_page: https://unavatar.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:44:08.132370+00:00, sha b2d674199cda)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.