Minotar

A Minotar is a global avatar that pulls your head off your Minecraft.net skin, and allows it for use on several thousand sites - anywhere you can embed an image. See some uses below.

Sweet and Simple API

Simple Heads

Unlike the PayPal API, we keep things nice and simple. For basic usage just provide a username: <img src="https://minotar.net/avatar/clone1018">

You can also set a size. We use pixels and we only need the width. Just add it to the end. <img src="https://minotar.net/avatar/clone1018/100">

And since some services require an extension we've added simple support for it. Just add .png to the end. <img src="https://minotar.net/avatar/clone1018/100.png">

Avatar With Helm

Sometimes you want to display a helm too, that's fine with this endpoint. <img src="https://minotar.net/helm/clone1018/100.png">

Advanced

User's Skin

You can even use Minotar's API to get a users skin. We're adding more soon! <img src="https://minotar.net/skin/clone1018">

You can also set the browser to download the image by using: https://minotar.net/download/clone1018

Default Skin

Need Steve? Use "char" as the username:

<img src="https://minotar.net/skin/char">

How to install?

1. Setup your GOPATH properly.
2. go get github.com/Axxim/Minotar/minotard
3. cp -Rf $GOPATH/src/github.com/Axxim/Minotar/minotard/static $GOPATH/bin
4. cd $GOPATH/bin; ./minotard

and it'll be listening on port 9999 on all interfaces.

You'll then need to either edit the source to listen on the port you want, or use something like nginx as a reverse proxy.

Thanks

Big thanks to lukegb for porting this script from PHP to Go!