MCHeads

About Caching

MCHeads caches skins for 6 hours
Images are also cached in your browser for 6 hours until a new request to MCHeads is made.

When you changed your skin you can try clearing your browser cache to see the change faster.
MCHeads deletes expired cache every 30 minutes.

About Usernames

We strongly advise you to use UUIDs instead of usernames! UUIDs never change while usernames do.
Looking up players by username has officially been deprecated by Mojang ever since UUIDs were introduced.

Malformed usernames are rejected.

About UUIDs

UUIDs may be any valid Mojang UUID in the blank or dashed format.
Malformed UUIDs are rejected, and all features on MCHeads support UUIDs

CORS

MCHeads supports Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, so you can make AJAX request from other sites!

Attribution

Attribution is not required, but it is encouraged.
If you want to show some support for this (free!) service, place a notice like this somewhere: Thanks to <a href="https://mc-heads.net">MCHeads</a> for providing Minecraft avatars.

HTTP Headers

Responses come with some custom HTTP headers, useful for debugging.
Please note that these headers may be cached by CloudFlare.

• X-Has-Failed: Details about the request status
  • true: The request went well, there were no issues on both sides.
  • false: Either mojang's server are down or the user requested a malfored UUID/username.
• X-Request-ID: The internal ID assigned to this request.
  If you think something is wrong with your request, please contact us and provide this ID.

Support

To contact us about any issue, please send an E-Mail to support@mc-heads.net.