thumbsup

Turn any folder with photos & videos into a web gallery.

• thumbnails & multiple resolutions for fast previews
• mobile friendly website with customisable themes
• only rebuilds changed files: it's fast!
• uses relative paths so you can deploy the pages anywhere
• works great with Amazon S3 for static hosting

Quick start

Simply point thumbsup to a folder with photos & videos. All nested folders become separate albums.

npm install -g thumbsup
thumbsup --input ./photos --output ./gallery

There are many command line arguments to customise the output. See the website for the full documentation: https://thumbsup.github.io.

Sample gallery

See a sample gallery online at https://thumbsup.github.io/demos/themes/mosaic/

Requirements

Thumbsup requires the following dependencies:

• Node.js: brew install node
• exiftool: brew install exiftool
• GraphicsMagick: brew install graphicsmagick

And optionally:

• FFmpeg to process videos: brew install ffmpeg
• Gifsicle to process animated GIFs: brew install gifsicle
• dcraw to process RAW photos: brew install dcraw
• ImageMagick for HEIC support (needs to be compiled with --with-heic)

You can run thumbsup as a Docker container (thumbsupgallery/thumbsup) which pre-packages all the dependencies above. Read the thumbsup on Docker documentation for more detail.

docker run -v `pwd`:/work thumbsupgallery/thumbsup [...]

Command line arguments

This reflects the CLI for the latest code on master. For the latest published version please refer to the docs on the website.

Usages:
  thumbsup [required] [options]
  thumbsup --config config.json


Required:
  --input   Path to the folder with all photos/videos  [string] [required]
  --output  Output path for the static website  [string] [required]

Input options:
  --scan-mode           How files are indexed  [choices: "full", "partial", "incremental"] [default: "full"]
  --include-photos      Include photos in the gallery  [boolean] [default: true]
  --include-videos      Include videos in the gallery  [boolean] [default: true]
  --include-raw-photos  Include raw photos in the gallery  [boolean] [default: false]
  --include             Glob pattern of files to include  [array]
  --exclude             Glob pattern of files to exclude  [array]

Output options:
  --thumb-size          Pixel size of the square thumbnails  [number] [default: 120]
  --small-size          Pixel height of the small photos  [number] [default: 300]
  --large-size          Pixel height of the fullscreen photos  [number] [default: 1000]
  --photo-quality       Quality of the resized/converted photos  [number] [default: 90]
  --video-quality       Quality of the converted video (percent)  [number] [default: 75]
  --video-bitrate       Bitrate of the converted videos (e.g. 120k)  [string] [default: null]
  --video-format        Video output format  [choices: "mp4", "webm"] [default: "mp4"]
  --video-hwaccel       Use hardware acceleration (requires bitrate)  [choices: "none", "vaapi"] [default: "none"]
  --video-stills        Where the video still frame is taken  [choices: "seek", "middle"] [default: "seek"]
  --video-stills-seek   Number of seconds where the still frame is taken  [number] [default: 1]
  --photo-preview       How lightbox photos are generated  [choices: "resize", "copy", "symlink", "link"] [default: "resize"]
  --video-preview       How lightbox videos are generated  [choices: "resize", "copy", "symlink", "link"] [default: "resize"]
  --photo-download      How downloadable photos are generated  [choices: "resize", "copy", "symlink", "link"] [default: "resize"]
  --video-download      How downloadable videos are generated  [choices: "resize", "copy", "symlink", "link"] [default: "resize"]
  --link-prefix         Path or URL prefix for "linked" photos and videos  [string]
  --cleanup             Remove any output file that's no longer needed  [boolean] [default: false]
  --concurrency         Number of parallel parsing/processing operations  [number] [default: 2]
  --output-structure    File and folder structure for output media  [choices: "folders", "suffix"] [default: "folders"]
  --gm-args             Custom image processing arguments for GraphicsMagick  [array]
  --watermark           Path to a transparent PNG to be overlaid on all images  [string]
  --watermark-position  Position of the watermark  [choices: "Repeat", "Center", "NorthWest", "North", "NorthEast", "West", "East", "SouthWest", "South", "SouthEast"]

Album options:
  --albums-from            How files are grouped into albums  [array] [default: ["%path"]]
  --sort-albums-by         How to sort albums  [choices: "title", "start-date", "end-date"] [default: "start-date"]
  --sort-albums-direction  Album sorting direction  [choices: "asc", "desc"] [default: "asc"]
  --sort-media-by          How to sort photos and videos  [choices: "filename", "date"] [default: "date"]
  --sort-media-direction   Media sorting direction  [choices: "asc", "desc"] [default: "asc"]
  --home-album-name        Name of the top-level album  [string] [default: "Home"]
  --album-page-size        Max number of files displayed on a page  [number] [default: null]
  --album-zip-files        Create a ZIP file per album  [boolean] [default: false]
  --include-keywords       Keywords to include in %keywords  [array]
  --exclude-keywords       Keywords to exclude from %keywords  [array]
  --include-people         Names to include in %people  [array]
  --exclude-people         Names to exclude from %people  [array]
  --album-previews         How previews are selected  [choices: "first", "spread", "random"] [default: "first"]

Website options:
  --index                 Filename of the home page  [string] [default: "index.html"]
  --albums-output-folder  Output subfolder for HTML albums (default: website root)  [string] [default: "."]
  --theme                 Name of a built-in gallery theme  [choices: "classic", "cards", "mosaic", "flow"] [default: "classic"]
  --theme-path            Path to a custom theme  [string]
  --theme-style           Path to a custom LESS/CSS file for additional styles  [string]
  --theme-settings        Path to a JSON file with theme settings  [string]
  --title                 Website title  [string] [default: "Photo album"]
  --footer                Text or HTML footer  [string] [default: null]
  --google-analytics      Code for Google Analytics tracking  [string]
  --embed-exif            Embed the exif metadata for each image into the gallery page  [boolean] [default: false]
  --locale                Locale for regional settings like dates  [string] [default: "en"]
  --seo-location          Location where the site will be hosted. If provided, sitemap.xml and robots.txt will be created.  [string] [default: null]

Misc options:
  --config         JSON config file (one key per argument)  [string]
  --database-file  Path to the database file  [string]
  --log-file       Path to the log file  [string]
  --log            Print a detailed text log  [choices: "default", "info", "debug", "trace"] [default: "default"]
  --dry-run        Update the index, but don't create the media files / website  [boolean] [default: false]

Deprecated:
  --original-photos       Copy and allow download of full-size photos  [boolean]
  --original-videos       Copy and allow download of full-size videos  [boolean]
  --albums-date-format    How albums are named in <date> mode [moment.js pattern]
  --css                   Path to a custom provided CSS/LESS file for styling  [string]
  --download-photos       Target of the photo download links  [choices: "large", "copy", "symlink", "link"]
  --download-videos       Target of the video download links  [choices: "large", "copy", "symlink", "link"]
  --download-link-prefix  Path or URL prefix for linked downloads  [string]
  --usage-stats           Enable anonymous usage statistics  [boolean] [default: false]

Options:
  --version  Show version number  [boolean]
  --help     Show help  [boolean]


 The optional JSON config should contain a single object with one key
 per argument, not including the leading "--". For example:
 { "sort-albums-by": "start-date" }

Contributing

We welcome all issues and pull requests!

If you are facing any issues or getting crashes, please try the following options to help troubleshoot:

thumbsup [options] --log debug
# [16:04:56] media/thumbs/photo-1446822622709-e1c7ad6e82d52.jpg [started]
# [16:04:57] media/thumbs/photo-1446822622709-e1c7ad6e82d52.jpg [completed]

thumbsup [options] --log trace
# [16:04:56] media/thumbs/photo-1446822622709-e1c7ad6e82d52.jpg [started]
# gm "identify" "-ping" "-format" "%[EXIF:Orientation]" [...]
# gm "convert" "-quality" "90" "-resize" "x400>" "+profile" [...]
# [16:04:57] media/thumbs/photo-1446822622709-e1c7ad6e82d52.jpg [completed]

If you want to contribute some code, please check out the contributing guidelines for an overview of the design and a run-through of the different automated/manual tests.

Disclaimer

While a lot of effort is put into testing Thumbsup (over 400 automated tests), the software is provided as-is under the MIT license. The authors cannot be held responsible for any unintended behaviours.

We recommend running Thumbsup with the least appropriate privilege, such as giving read-only access to the source images. The Docker setup detailed in the documentation follows this advice.