How to generate jpg thumbnails and browsable html pages from command line?

Question

I am searching for a simple command line tool that takes a bunch of jpg files as input, copies them to some destination and generates some browsable html for it (including index page, preview thumbnails etc.), such that I can upload the results to some static webserver and people can conveniently browse them.

Answer 1

andcoz's answer provided me with a good search term, i.e. just using

$ apt-cache search gallery

results in some packages matching the above criteria, e.g.

• bins
• igal2 - Nice looking film reel effect in gallery by default, scaling of original images is not the default (see --bigy), homepage and man page are missing some usage examples
• jigl
• lazygal - Themes are easy to change/adjust, instead of next/previous links small thumbnails (at the left/right), small/medium scaled views by default, --original creates links to the original files
• llgal
• photon - Optional slideshow feature via javascript, some scaling and link to original image available
• webmagick

(Under Ubuntu 10.04)

Answer 2

Once upon a time, I used BB Gallery. It is very simple and easy to customize (if you know a little of perl).

Answer 3

You can hack a solution together with Dropbox.

Install Dropbox CLI.

Then copy files to a public gallery which presents the images in a minimally styled format.

Optionally, you could use this bash upload script.

DropboxCLI has an option to copy the gallery URL

copygallery - Copies the gallery url to the clipboard

so that you can then share that link...

Answer 4

For creating thumbnails from a bunch of JPGs, my first thought is to use Netpbm. Netpbm is a toolkit for converting images from one format to the other. Once you've banged together a script using Netpbm, you'd have to pull in some other scripting for the creation of the HTML gallery, and the copying and uploading process. Good luck!