botling

Robot avatars from any string.

Give botling a user id and it draws the same robot every time, on any machine, with nothing stored. Type anything to meet yours.

    Below 40px it switches to a simpler version of the same robot.

    Cells
    Palette
    Holiday palette
    Background grid

    Meet a few more

    Use it

    Install

    npm install botling

    Draw one

    import { botling, botlingDataUri } from 'botling';

// An SVG string, to inline
const svg = botling(user.id);

// A data: URI, for an img src or CSS url()
const src = botlingDataUri(user.id, { size: 40 });

    Good to know

    • Same seed, same robot. Nothing to store; the robot is computed from the string.
    • Seed with an opaque id, like a database id, not an email: anyone can draw the robot for a guessed email and compare.
    • No dependencies, no requests. It returns SVG, so it works in the browser, on the server and on the edge, under a strict CSP.
    • Picker-ready. SHAPES, PALETTES and traits() are exported, so people can choose their own look.

    Every option, in the README