Fetch avatar URLs from each website

[jayvdb]

Most of the websites have some sort of avatar which can be obtained and included in the results for 'Taken' names.

This will help to see whether a username has a consistent avatar across various platforms, which can be used as a proxy to guess that they are taken by the same person.

[manu-chroma]

meta property="og:image" contains image url at a lot of times. check that out

[jayvdb]

Should we make this a backend only task to begin with?
Then you can think about the UI a bit, and then create another task to do the UI?

[manu-chroma]

Yes, that's what I had in mind.
Backend will start passing avatar links and then we can figure out the frontend part

[nalinbhardwaj]

Is there a reason to rely on metadata only? Why not add proper image fetching for valid usernames as link templates to websites.yml(and use it)
Ex. FB provides images at https://graph.facebook.com/{userid}/picture?type=square , so we just fetch from that(without relying on og:image.

[manu-chroma]

@nalinbhardwaj they're not available for all websites, but yes if we can get them, they're a better option to handle image fetch.

Apart from this, in case of fb, we'll have to extract userid from the profile source anyways to use this url.

[manu-chroma]

Might be helpful: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/optimize-with-cards/overview/summary