Avatar Star

A simple AWS lambda function built with Serverless SDK that pulls a user's avatar from twitter or substack and returns it as a dataURL.

Setup

• Clone the repo
• Copy the env.example.json, add your Twitter Bearer Token, and rename to env.offline.json
  • Configure any port/server settings as desired
• Copy env.example.json to env.dev.json and add your Twitter Bearer Token

Configuration

In serverless.yml

• provider:environment:checkByDate - Time in milliseconds until an avatar should be updated again
• provider.environment:imageWidth - Pixel width of avatar to be served

Usage

A successful response for either /twitter or /substack will return a URL to the file stored on S3 in a resopnse of the sort:

{
    "url:"s3.amazonaws.com/avatar-star.twitter/..."
}

• For local testing
  • Run npm run local-server
  • Access localhost:3000/twitter/{id} where {id} is any twitter ID or localhost:3000/substack/{id} where {id} is any substack ID
• To deploy to AWS
  • Run npm run deploy