IndieWeb Avatar API

A runtime service to extract avatar images from:

<link rel="apple-touch-icon">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed">
<link rel="icon">
favicon.ico (added September 20, 2021)
favicon.ico that isn’t an .ico file (added December 1, 2023)
First <img> in <header> (added December 1, 2023)
TODO: Support Data URIs in attribute values. (e.g. https://joshcrain.io)
TODO: <link rel="mask-icon">
TODO (maybe): <link rel="manifest">
TODO (maybe): <meta name="msapplication-config">

All rel lookups match against attribute values that are space separated lists.

Update July 22, 2024: Supports svg favicons but converts to png for performance reasons (some folks had huge SVG favicons).

Usage

URLs have the formats:

/:url/

url must be URI encoded.