remy / twivatar

Twitter RESTful avatar API

No longer works

Twitter has managed to finally kill this (and related) projects. Sorry, I've looked and I can't see a solution.

Twivatar

Twivatar is a RESTful API to a Twitter user's avatar built out of frustration of external Twitter apps breaking when the avatar url is stored, and then changed by that user later on Twitter - the result is a broken image on that app unless they constantly check for profile changes.

Usage

<img src="https://twivatar.glitch.me/[screen_name]" />

Alternatively you can specify the size image you want from:

• mini (24x24)
• normal (48x48 - default)
• bigger (73x73)
• original

<img src="https://twivatar.glitch.me/[screen_name]/[size]" />

Behind the scenes

This is a simple one script app that stores the url of the avatar. When the avatar is requested for x user, it runs the following logic:

1. Get the mobile HTML from twitter
2. Run the HTML through cheerio and find the .Avatar element
3. Request the image URL and pipe to the response
4. All requests also include CORS headers so you can manipulate in a canvas

License

MIT: http://rem.mit-license.org

twivatar's Issues

Is /size working?

Hi, @remy thanks for your work!

http://twivatar.glitch.me/rem works well, however http://twivatar.glitch.me/rem/mini doesn't. Is the size feature as described in https://twivatar.glitch.me/ still alive?

Thank you!

twivatar.glitch.me is not running

https://twivatar.glitch.me/ says that the project is not running

API consume

I'm sorry if this is wrong place to ask.
To get user's avatar we still must consume RESTFUL Api?
We can't make it with streaming api which isn't rate limited?

So how do you manage it in "http://twivatar.herokuapp.com/"
Don't you consume API rates.?
AFAIK there is no whitelisted application.
Thank you.

Not working

Cannot GET /rem issue is observed

Problems in Firefox and Internet Explorer

Hey I'm using twivatar to pull avis for an add site for fans of local college athletics on twitter and I have had no problems getting everything to work perfectly in chrome but it's on again off again in firefox and ie. Is this something you have heard before or do you have any idea why this may be? The project I'm playing with is on github so you can go to my profile and see what I have going on if that may help you figure out what is happening here.