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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 / cairo.

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 help wanted show where we could especially need your help!

Examples

jomo's avatar Jake_0's avatar Notch's avatar sk89q's avatar
jomo's 3d head Jake_0's 3d head Notch's 3d head sk89q's 3d head
jomo's 3d body Jake_0's 3d body Notch's 3d body sk89q's 3d body
jomo's skin Jake_0's skin Notch's skin sk89q's skin

Usage / Documentation

Please visit the website for details.

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Installation

Manual

  • Install nodejs 12 (LTS)
  • Install redis-server
  • Run npm install
    If that fails, it's likely because because of node-canvas dependencies. Follow this guide to install them.
  • Run npm start

Crafatar is now available at http:https://0.0.0.0:3000.

Docker

Download the docker image from releases (docker hub coming soon™️).

docker load -i crafatar-docker.tar
mkdir /path/to/crafatar-images
docker network create crafatar
docker run --net crafatar -d --name redis redis
docker run --net crafatar -v /path/to/crafatar-images:/crafatar/images -e REDIS_URL=redis:https://redis -p 3000:3000 crafatar:2.1.0

Environment variables

Variable Default Description
BIND 0.0.0.0 Hostname to listen on
PORT 3000 Port to listen on
DEBUG false Enable verbose debug logging
REDIS_URL redis:https://127.0.0.1:6379 URI of the redis server
EPHEMERAL_STORAGE If set, redis is flushed on start*

* Use this to avoid issues when you have a persistent redis database but an ephemeral storage

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

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