IndieWeb Avatar API

A runtime service to extract avatar images from:

1. <link rel="apple-touch-icon">
2. <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed">
3. <link rel="icon">
4. favicon.ico (added September 20, 2021)
5. favicon.ico that isn’t an .ico file (added December 1, 2023)
6. First <img> in <header> (added December 1, 2023)
7. TODO: Support Data URIs in attribute values. (e.g. https://joshcrain.io)
8. TODO: <link rel="mask-icon">
9. TODO (maybe): <link rel="manifest">
10. 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.