An API endpoint to fetch the profile pic of a user OR organization based on the username alone

[Booligoosh]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I want to get an avatar URL based on a dev.to username. Since a username can be either for an organization or a user, there is currently no way to do this.

For user profile pics, I can get the profile pic by requesting https://dev.to/api/users/by_username?url=<username>. However, there is no corresponding endpoint for organizations at the moment (see #9212).

But even if this endpoint did exist, there would still be no way to get the profile pic from username alone, unless you made two requests, one to the organization endpoint and one to the the user endpoint, and then checked which returned a response.

Describe the solution you'd like
Some endpoint along the lines of /api/profile_pic/by_username?url=<username> that works with both organization and user usernames.

It could also be an endpoint like /api/profile_info/by_username?url=<username> which returns basic profile info fields shared across users and organizations such as name, profile pic and location (this would be the preferred functionality).

Describe alternatives you've considered
At the moment, I'm just fetching /api/users/by_username?url=<username> and if a 404 is returned, I just display a fallback image.

Note that you can get organization profile pics at the moment if you have the URL of a post, since the articles endpoint returns the organization info as well as user info, but that only works if you know one of the organization's article URLs.

Additional context

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[rhymes]

I think we should add a /profile-pictures/{username} endpoint to the API to solve this

[diogoosorio]

Seems simple enough, I can pick this one up! 👍

[fdocr]

Thank you @diogoosorio I just assigned the issue to you

[ankiiitraj]

Hello, I'm new here, this seems an easy task for me to get started. Let me know if I can work on it! 😃

[rhymes]

@ankiiitraj, thanks for offering, @diogoosorio already claimed this PR but you're welcome to choose any other issue :) You can take a lok at the rest of the hacktoberfest pool or those tagged with difficulty: easy as well

Thank you!