mcskindl

mcskindl is a Minecraft: Java Edition player skin downloader in bash(1)

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

Requirements

• bash (tested with 5.2.x, POSIX shell version might be available later)
• curl for fetching (if HTTPS works then it should work). Set environment variable MCSKINDL_USE_WGET to yes if you prefer using wget
• jq for processing JSON data (important)
• base64 for decoding Base64 data (should be included with coreutils or busybox any other implementations that supports decoding)
• 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

Thanks to this wiki.vg page for providing documentations, https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck for helping me to catch potential bugs, and also https://github.com/matejak/argbash/ for generating the code to handle command line arguments!