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.

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">

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

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

Need Steve? Use "char" as the username:

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

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.

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