fgallery

fgallery is a file-system based gallery. It's composed of three parts:

• bash scripts
• backend API
• user interface

Dependencies

• imagemagick
• ffmpeg/avconv
• nodejs
• npm

Components

bash scripts

There are two bash scripts that generate the thumbnails for media files. One is called images-thumbnail and the other one is videos-thumbnail. They're nothing but wrappers around convert (imagemagick) and ffmpeg respectively.

backend API

It exposes the gallery.

user interface

It is the gallery itself.

Why

I needed a gallery for family/vacation pictures and videos and I didn't find anything that I liked.

At first I thought of generating the missing thumbnails on-demand, but I realized that it was too expensive. So I decided, given that I will not upload new contents very often, that I could generate the thumbnails every n hours by calling two bash scripts.

It's not amazing but it works.

Demo

A demo is available here.

Authentication

Authentication is activated by default. You can however turn it off by editing config.js and setting authentication.enabled to false.

Users are stored in user.json.

You can create a new user easily by executing scripts/createUser.sh. It will return a JSON that you can add manually to users.json (I know: boooooring. I might improve it in the future.)

$  bash ./scripts/createUser.sh test testpassword

Please notice that the command itself is prefixed by a space. This way it will not be logged to bash history and your password will be safe.