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Wanna make your GitHub README pop? I built a massive, customizable icon API!
▲ 4 r/coolgithubprojects

Wanna make your GitHub README pop? I built a massive, customizable icon API!

I was tired of boring, static SVGs and slow loading times on GitHub profiles, so I spent the time to build my own massive Icon API.

It’s designed to make your README look incredibly clean with zero effort. It's fully embeddable and dynamically adjustable purely via URL parameters - just change the URL string and the icon updates instantly.

The stats:

  • 6k+ unique tech brand icons
  • 13k+ total SVGs (comes in 4 distinct visual variants per icon)
  • Extremely lightweight and fast

If you want to ditch the slow, outdated services and make your GitHub profile look premium, give it a try.

Docs/API: https://icons.germondai.com
Repo: https://github.com/germondai/icons

(If you are interested to self-hosting: ghcr.io/germondai/icons:latest)

u/Germond_ — 3 days ago
▲ 19 r/synology

Tired of FlareSolverr breaking your *arr stack downloads? Here’s a faster drop-in replacement for your Synology!

If you're running Prowlarr or Jackett on your Synology to fetch stuff for Sonarr/Radarr, you've probably run into the endless loop of indexers failing because of Cloudflare blocks. The usual fix is FlareSolverr, but let's be honest, it's slow (15-18s per solve), constantly breaks, and eats a ton of RAM on a NAS.

I got tired of babysitting it on my own homelab, so I built TRAWL as a drop-in replacement. You literally just swap the FlareSolverr URL in your *arr stack to the new TRAWL container, and it just works.

Why it's better for a NAS:

  • Faster: Solves Cloudflare in 4-15s (uses Camoufox to trigger CF's fast-path)
  • Saves CPU/RAM: It hooks into Redis. The first request to a domain takes a few seconds, but repeat requests return in ~500ms without spinning up a browser at all
  • Actually solves captchas: Handles Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha out of the box

Synology Setup Note: If you're using the Synology Container Manager on some older hardware, I highly recommend using the :baseline Docker image tag instead of :latest. It includes specific fixes for older Synology kernels so you won't hit any of those weird module resolution errors.

Website: https://trawl.germondai.com
Docs: https://docs.trawl.germondai.com
GitHub: https://github.com/germondai/trawl
Docker image: ghcr.io/germondai/trawl:baseline

Happy to answer any questions if anyone wants to migrate their setup!

u/Germond_ — 3 days ago
▲ 1 r/github

Replace skillicons.dev in your READMEs - 6,150 icons including everything released in the last 2 years

skillicons.dev has been basically unmaintained for a while now. Missing bun, drizzle, hono, cursor, windsurf, claude, turso, neon, convex, htmx - you know the list. The GitHub issues have been sitting unanswered for months.

Found a free replacement: icons.germondai.com

Same one img tag. 18x more icons. Sub-100ms responses.

![icons](https://icons.germondai.com/icons?i=typescript,react,bun,tailwindcss,docker&theme=dark)

Per-icon control (variant, color, background, radius per icon, all in one URL):

![icons](https://icons.germondai.com/icons?i=typescript:original:3178c6,react:mono:61dafb,bun:plain:fbf0d9&theme=slate&size=56)

6,150 icons. MIT licensed. Free to use.

GitHub: https://github.com/germondai/icons (a star means a lot)

u/Germond_ — 3 days ago
▲ 14 r/elfhosted

I built a FlareSolverr replacement that's 3× faster and actually solves captchas!

Been running FlareSolverr for a long time for my *arr stack and got tired of the 11-18s solve times and constant breakage. Built TRAWL as a drop-in replacement!

Key differences:

  • Cloudflare solves in 4-15s (vs 11-18s) - uses a fresh Camoufox Firefox context which triggers CF's fast-path evaluation
  • Cached repeat requests return in ~500ms via Redis - after the first solve, the same domain is instant
  • Actually solves in-page captchas: Turnstile (shadow DOM click), reCAPTCHA v2 (free Google STT audio), hCaptcha (auto-pass), GeeTest v4
  • 4-tier execution: plain HTTP → cached session → live browser solve → residential proxy. You pay the full browser cost only when you have to
  • Custom headers support - pass Authorization, Referer, Origin through all 4 tiers including browser
  • FlareSolverr v2 compatible - change one URL in Prowlarr/Jackett, nothing else

Website: https://trawl.germondai.com
Docs: https://docs.trawl.germondai.com
GitHub: https://github.com/germondai/trawl

Happy to answer questions. Still early but it's been running stable on my homelab and no issues so far.

reddit.com
u/Germond_ — 5 days ago
▲ 13 r/radarr

I built a FlareSolverr replacement that's 3× faster and actually solves captchas!

Been running FlareSolverr for a long time for my *arr stack and got tired of the 11-18s solve times and constant breakage. Built TRAWL as a drop-in replacement!

Key differences:

  • Cloudflare solves in 4-15s (vs 11-18s) - uses a fresh Camoufox Firefox context which triggers CF's fast-path evaluation
  • Cached repeat requests return in ~500ms via Redis - after the first solve, the same domain is instant
  • Actually solves in-page captchas: Turnstile (shadow DOM click), reCAPTCHA v2 (free Google STT audio), hCaptcha (auto-pass), GeeTest v4
  • 4-tier execution: plain HTTP → cached session → live browser solve → residential proxy. You pay the full browser cost only when you have to
  • Custom headers support - pass Authorization, Referer, Origin through all 4 tiers including browser
  • FlareSolverr v2 compatible - change one URL in Prowlarr/Jackett, nothing else

Website: https://trawl.germondai.com
Docs: https://docs.trawl.germondai.com
GitHub: https://github.com/germondai/trawl

Happy to answer questions. Still early but it's been running stable on my homelab and no issues so far.

reddit.com
u/Germond_ — 5 days ago
▲ 112 r/Softwarr+6 crossposts

TRAWL: Self-hosted scraping engine — bypasses any JS challenge & captcha: Cloudflare, Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, GeeTest. FlareSolverr & Byparr alternative and drop-in replacement for your *arr stack.

github.com
u/Germond_ — 6 days ago
▲ 230 r/Servarr+3 crossposts

I built a FlareSolverr replacement that's 3× faster and actually solves captchas!

Been running FlareSolverr for a long time for my *arr stack and got tired of the 11-18s solve times and constant breakage. Built TRAWL as a drop-in replacement!

Key differences:

  • Cloudflare solves in 4-15s (vs 11-18s) - uses a fresh Camoufox Firefox context which triggers CF's fast-path evaluation
  • Cached repeat requests return in ~500ms via Redis - after the first solve, the same domain is instant
  • Actually solves in-page captchas: Turnstile (shadow DOM click), reCAPTCHA v2 (free Google STT audio), hCaptcha (auto-pass), GeeTest v4
  • 4-tier execution: plain HTTP → cached session → live browser solve → residential proxy. You pay the full browser cost only when you have to
  • Custom headers support - pass Authorization, Referer, Origin through all 4 tiers including browser
  • FlareSolverr v2 compatible - change one URL in Prowlarr/Jackett, nothing else

Website: https://trawl.germondai.com
Docs: https://docs.trawl.germondai.com
GitHub: https://github.com/germondai/trawl

Happy to answer questions. Still early but it's been running stable on my homelab and no issues so far.

reddit.com
u/Germond_ — 3 days ago