mcskindl

mcskindl is a Minecraft: Java Edition player skin downloader written in bash.

Requirements

• bash (tested with 5.2.x)
• curl for fetching (if HTTPS works then it should work). Set the MCSKINDL_USE_WGET environment variable to yes if you prefer using wget
• jq for processing JSON data (core)
• base64 for decoding Base64 data (should be included with coreutils or busybox or any other implementations that supports it)
• sed (for substituting some HTTP URLs to HTTPS, remove any calls of sed if you don't want this behavior.

Warning

The CGI script mode is NOT intended for production use due to performance and security issues.

TODO

• Detect if the input is a valid UUID otherwise it is a Username.

Credits

• https://minecraft.wiki/w/Mojang_API: Documentation
• shellcheck
• https://github.com/matejak/argbash

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NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG OR MICROSOFT.