I'll just post this here as I'm not sure anyone still reads the developer forums...
It's great that the player images are still going to available in the long term,
but as the API is closing we could use an alternative way to access them as I've been wondering here
You may know that some of my games use those directly, and hopefully people will come up with other uses of avatars later!
I'd just like to have players type their glitch names when logging into the game, instead of asking them to upload their avatar manually or other weird work around
So, here are some possible ways I thought developers could get an access (in a coolness order):
- With a custom url quite similar to the one currently in use
glitch.com/profiles/TSID/archive/?look=last&sheet=base
And it would return the url of the "base" sprite sheet (we just need one as they all have almost the same url)
One problem for now is that the avatar pages are private, any reason this is not open to everyone?
- You could export a text file with the names of every glitch player, their tsid, and one sprite sheet url
And developers would just use a local copy to find out where to get stuff
- With a list of all the players TSIDs
Then I'll just process them through the API while it's still there to build a list myself
I know this may be some additional work for TS, but if the avatar are still there, better make good use of them ;)
(Also if you ever have the chance while in there, this can be a cool thing to have as well)