instantgallery.py

instantgallery.py takes a directory containing photos and turns it into a shiny photo gallery made for the web. ALl you have to do is to enter a single command line. To publish the gallery, just upload the output directory to any webserver. It's plain HTML, CSS and Javascript and it thus works regardless of your webserver.

instantgallery.py can handle and display EXIF information and is able to try rotating portrait format photos automatically (by using their EXIF rotate information combined with their aspect ratio).

By default the photos are ordered by their timestamp but you can specify a flag to have them sorted alphabetically. In the first case the script tries to read their EXIF "OriginalDate" field first and uses Unix' mtime() if this failes.

For an example of a gallery created with this software see below.

instantgallery.py supports EXIF information including GPS (shown using OpenStreetMap), subdirectories, intro texts and generating a ZIP archive of the pictures for download.

instantgallery.py is able to generate galleries in other languages than English, but currently only German is supported. If you add another language I would be glad to get an email or just fork the project on GitHub and send me a pull request.

Bugs

Please create an issue at GitHub. If you don't have and don't want to have a GitHub account, send me an email.

Example

$ tree /tmp/demo
    /tmp/demo
    ├── GPS demo
    │   ├── Paris1.JPG
    │   ├── Paris2.JPG
    │   ├── Paris3.JPG
    │   ├── Paris4.JPG
    │   └── Paris5.JPG
    ├── INTRO
    ├── London1.JPG
    ├── London2.JPG
    ├── London3.JPG
    ├── London4.JPG
    ├── London5.JPG
    ├── Oslo1.JPG
    ├── Oslo2.JPG
    ├── Oslo3.JPG
    ├── Oslo4.JPG
    ├── Oslo5.JPG
    ├── Rom1.JPG
    ├── Rom2.JPG
    ├── Rom3.JPG
    ├── Rom4.JPG
    └── Rom5.JPG

 1 directory, 21 files

$ ./instantgallery.py /tmp/demo /tmp/capitals --title "Capitals" -i -z

Result: http://www.raphaelmichel.de/bilder/demo/

Authors

• Raphael Michel
• Graham (github.com/4gra)

License

The software is free and open source software and published unter the terms of the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Raphael Michel and contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The default font is 'Ubuntu' which is Copyright 2010, 2011 Canonical Ltd. To remove it, just remove the first 6 lines from both .css files and remove the file 'static/Ubuntu.woff'. The font is licensed under the Ubuntu Font Licence, Version 1.0. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-licence

Requirements

• Python 2.7 (Debian/Ubuntu: python2.7)
• Python Imaging Library (PIL) (Debian/Ubuntu: python-imaging)
• ImageMagick's convert (Debian/Ubuntu: imagemagick)

Optional, for more cool features:

• SlimIt ($ [sudo] easy_install-2.7 slimit)
• CSSmin ($ [sudo] easy_install-2.7 cssmin)
• Django-HTMLmin ($ [sudo] easy_install-2.7 django-htmlmin)

Usage

usage: instantgallery.py [-h] [--title TITLE] [--language LNG] [--no-date]
                         [--no-sort] [--no-rotate] [--no-exif] [--no-gps]
                         [--web-resolution WxH] [--zip] [--sub N]
                         [--filenames] [--intro] [--no-promoting] 
                         [--zipnames SCHEMA] [--workers WORKERS] [-y] [-s]
                         [--version]
                         INPUT OUTPUT

Builds a beautiful web gallery. Now.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version, -v         show program's version number and exit

Basic settings:
  INPUT                 This is directory with pictures for the gallery.
  OUTPUT                This is where the gallery should be created.
  --title TITLE, -t TITLE
                        Name the gallery
  --language LNG, -l LNG
                        Sets the language to be used in output files.
                        Available languages: en de

Image processing:
  --no-date, -d         Prevents instantgallery.py from showing the date and
                        time of the picutres on the index page.
  --no-sort, -c         Do not try to sort the pictures chronologically. (We
                        try first to use EXIF as source for the timestamps,
                        then mtime().)
  --no-rotate, -r       Don't try to automatically rotate pictures.
  --no-exif, -e         Don't output details from EXIF data
  --no-gps, -g          Don't display GPS data (does only make sense if EXIF
                        is displayed).
  --web-resolution WxH, -w WxH
                        Specify maximal resolution for pictures shown online
                        (default: 1920x1080)

Additional settings:
  --zip, -z             Create a zip file with all the images and make it
                        available for download.
  --sub N, -S N         Subdirectory entering depth (0 for staying in the
                        original directory).
  --filenames, -f       Display filenames in image details.
  --intro, -i           Use text file INTRO in the picture directories to
                        display on the index page.
  --no-promoting        Do not include a link to instantgallery.py's website
                        in the footer of the gallery's overview.
  --zipnames SCHEMA     Gallery name for the filenames in the zip file

Runtime options:
  --workers WORKERS, -W WORKERS
                        Number of parallel image processing workers to spawn.
  -y                    Say yes to everything.
  -s                    Skips the generation of thumbnails and similar things.
                        THIS EXISTS FOR DEBUGGING. Use this only if you're
                        aware of what you're doing.