itsthatguy/avatars-api-middleware

API Site is gone?

davidwparker opened this issue · 17 comments

davidwparker commented

http://avatars.adorable.io/
no longer exists.

Is the only way to use via self-hosting now?

willcrisis commented

+1 on this. I was using it on a project, and got surprised this afternoon when all my avatars stopped working.

As a workaround, I created a Firebase Functions version that can be self-hosted "for free" while we get some responses about what happened to it. This is the repo: https://github.com/willcrisis/adorable-avatars-cloud-functions

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ValentinVignal commented

Hello, is there any news about this ? I am using your API in several projects too

rylnd commented

Hey everyone,

I'm no longer a contributor on the project so I don't have any insight into the situation, but I felt the need to chime in and say 🙏 THANK YOU 🙏 to everyone for jumping in and building these solutions. It's really awesome and heartwarming to see people rally like this ❤️ .

Speaking historically: the avatars services was built to be a self-hosted dev tool, and the http://api.adorable.io/ instance was only ever intended to drive the demo page. But it was there, and public, and free, and so people started using it! We tried our best over the years to keep it up and performant, but the amount of traffic (and costs) kept rising, and I assume that trend has continued.

So, I love seeing these ad hoc solutions as (IMO) it's getting back to the original intention of the project! But if there are things that we (the community) can do to make this more distributable/deployable, I think that would benefit everyone.

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trptcolin commented

Sorry for the sudden outage, and many thanks to those who have posted workarounds and alternative hosting!

This outage boils down to an issue of an expired credit card with Heroku, where it's hosted, and the Heroku account getting suspended due to unpaid bills.

In getting ready to update the CC, and considering the price tag (we're now at ~$280/month), I think this is a good seam for us to go ahead and shut down the free hosted API.

I know that it's annoying to have a dependency start failing on you like this with no warning, and I'm sorry for that. Unfortunately I think there's no great way to provide an advance warning here, since there are no accounts or anything - but I'm sure there are decent solutions we could brainstorm in hindsight.

In any case, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I think your best option will be to self-host, or to point at an alternative hosted domain.

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aldrio commented

Docker image for self hosters https://hub.docker.com/r/aldrio/adorable-avatars

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FlorianKoerner commented

Very sad to see that the API is currently not available. I liked your avatar style.

I am the maintainer of DiceBear Avatars and can suggest this as an alternative as well.

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ianhobbs commented

Thanks @gfauchart I guess we will need to do the same to maintain the service.... Its so good!!

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dariocoroneldev commented

ther is no more site?

viking2917 commented

I've hosted the project on this domain: https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/

it's the same API as before, feel free to use it!
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/myseed
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/120/myseed
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/face/eyes2/nose2/mouth1/ff0000/120
https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/list

Hi @gfauchart Thanks for hosting at https://api.hello-avatar.com/adorables/. Have been using for awhile now successfully, it seems to have stopped working recently, I get "ERROR: Failed to contact the origin".

Is that intentional? Thank you!

gfauchart commented

Hello @viking2917 ,
Sorry, the bill was getting too high and I ran out of AWS credit :(
some links are still working because the CDN is still up with some cached links, but I had to turn off the webserver

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viking2917 commented

Hello @viking2917 ,
Sorry, the bill was getting too high and I ran out of AWS credit :(
some links are still working because the CDN is still up with some cached links, but I had to turn off the webserver

@gfauchart makes sense. Thanks for hosting for a time!

AlphaWong commented

Docker image for self hosters https://hub.docker.com/r/aldrio/adorable-avatars

I add Heroku support based on ur code

https://github.com/AlphaWong/adorable-avatars

So we should be able to generate identicon for fun after deployed to Heroku

M4GNV5 commented

We are currently hosting the service at https://adorable-avatars.broken.services/

https://adorable-avatars.broken.services/myseed
https://adorable-avatars.broken.services/120/myseed
https://adorable-avatars.broken.services/face/eyes2/nose2/mouth1/ff0000/120
https://adorable-avatars.broken.services/list

Its running on a Hetzner root server (no unexpected AWS/Heroku bills). Its mainly for our in-house projects and some personal projects, feel free to use it. As long as the server is mostly idling i will keep it running, but if it drains too much ressources it might become broken (as the domain name suggests lol)

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FlorianKoerner commented

I like the domain name. 😄

polettix commented

Not sure whose this site is: http://adorableavatars.com/