fastgallery

Fast static photo and video gallery generator

• Super fast (written in Go and C, concurrent, uses fastest image/video libraries, 4-8 times faster than others)
• Both photo and video support
• Deals with any file formats (including HEIC and HEVC)
• Only updates changed files, runs incrementally
• If aborted, can continue from where it stopped and clean-up unfinished files
• Will delete removed source files from gallery
• Uses relative paths (safe for using in subdirectory or S3)
• Minimal bloat (vanilla JS frontend, minimal CSS)

Examples

Please see https://www.melisma.net/fastgallery-examples/

Dependencies

MacOS

For dependencies, use Homebrew to install:

brew install vips ffmpeg

Ubuntu Linux

For Ubuntu 18.04 bionic or 20.04 focal, first add my PPA for latest libvips with HEIF support:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tonimelisma/ppa

Then install libvips42 for images and optionally ffmpeg (if you need video support):

apt-get install libvips42 ffmpeg

Install

1. Download the latest release
2. Run make build
3. Copy bin/fastgallery to /usr/local/bin

Usage

fastgallery ~/Dropbox/Pictures /var/www/html/gallery

Roadmap

For the prioritised roadmap, please see https://github.com/tonimelisma/fastgallery/projects/1

Third party libraries

• govips, lightning fast image processing and resizing library in Go/C
• Feather icons, simple and beautiful
• Primer CSS, Github's in-house design system