# Crafatar [](https://travis-ci.org/crafatar/crafatar/) [](https://coveralls.io/r/crafatar/crafatar) [](https://codeclimate.com/github/crafatar/crafatar)
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Crafatar serves Minecraft avatars based on the skin for use in external applications.
Inspired by Gravatar (hence the name) and Minotar.
Image manipulation is done by [lwip](https://github.com/EyalAr/lwip). 3D renders are created with [node-canvas](https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas) / [cairo](http://cairographics.org/).
# Contributions welcome!
There are usually a few [open issues](https://github.com/crafatar/crafatar/issues).
We welcome any opinions or advice in discussions as well as pull requests.
Issues tagged with [](https://github.com/crafatar/crafatar/labels/help%20wanted) show where we could especially need your help!
# Examples
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## Usage / Documentation
Please [visit the website](https://crafatar.com) for details.
## Contact
* You can [follow](https://twitter.com/crafatar) us on twitter
* Open an [issue](https://github.com/crafatar/crafatar/issues/) on GitHub
# Installation
Have a look at [crafatar/setup](https://github.com/crafatar/setup) to see how we set things up at Crafatar.
For more info about local setup, Heroku, or Dokku please see [Installation](https://github.com/crafatar/crafatar/wiki/Installation) on the wiki.
## Tests
```shell
npm test
```
If you want to debug failing tests:
```shell
# show logs during tests
env VERBOSE_TEST=true npm test
```
It can be helpful to monitor redis commands to debug caching errors:
```shell
redis-cli monitor
```