Open Bases Icons

• Preview the icons
• Use the API
• Create your own API

These fun, beautiful sets of images can be used as placeholders for generated PDFs and other content used by the openbases! The idea is to provide them in a separate repository so the primary repos don't need to each serve the files. The author of most of these icons is Freepick, and each folder coincides with a particular icon collection on the site. Specific links and attributions are contained within. Thank you Freepik for this invaluable resource to make science a little more fun!

Open Bases Icons API

Python API

For a quick python wrapper to use the API, see openbases-python.

Command Line API

There is a simple API served by the repository to make it easy for you to programmatically get an icon! If you look at the base, you can see there is an endpoint for text, and for json:

$ curl https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/
{
  "icons": {
    "text": "https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/icons.txt",
    "json": "https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/icons.json",
    "svg": "https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/svg.json"
   }
}

If you then parse each endpoint, you get the expected format! Each serves a list of icons, and that's it. Here is a list of files (icons.txt):

$ curl https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/icons.txt
https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/openjournals/joss-logo.png
https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/openjournals/jose-logo.png
https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/tuxlets/zwartepiettux2.svg.png
https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/tuxlets/yellowtux2.svg.png
https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/tuxlets/wizzardtux2.svg.png
https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/tuxlets/wintertux2.svg.png
...
https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/office-set/clipboard-icon.png
https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/office-set/briefcase-bag-icon.png
https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/office-set/archive-folders-icon.png

And here is the equivalent for icons.json:

curl https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/icons.json

["https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/flaticon/in-the-zoo/penguin.png",
"https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/openjournals/joss-logo.png",
"https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/openjournals/jose-logo.png",
"https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/tuxlets/zwartepiettux2.svg.png",
"https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/tuxlets/yellowtux2.svg.png",
...
"https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/office-set/color-catalog-icon.png",
"https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/office-set/clipboard-icon.png",
"https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/office-set/briefcase-bag-icon.png",
"https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/iconarchive/office-set/archive-folders-icon.png",
"https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/ic/flaticon/in-the-zoo/penguin.png"]

If you then parse each endpoint, you get the expected format! Each serves a list of icons, and that's it. Here is a list of files (icons.txt):

Random Selection

Bash

To select an icon using bash:

OPENBASES_ICONS=(`curl https://openbases.github.io/openbases-icons/icons.txt`)
OPENBASES_ICON=${OPENBASES_ICONS[$RANDOM % ${#OPENBASES_ICONS[@]} ]}
echo "${OPENBASES_ICON}"
wget ${OPENBASES_ICON} -O myicon.png

Create Your Own Icon API

You simply need to:

1. Fork this repository, and then put icons (svg and png supported) in subfolders of ic. E
2. Edit the _config.yml to be specific for your Github repository and site.
3. Push to Github, and turn on Github Pages to deploy from master.

If you have any more questions, please open an issue to ask!