Static web photo gallery generator wanted

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 01:18:34PM +0000, Matthew Crews wrote:
> On 8/13/18 5:47 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> > I'm looking for a simple, efficient way to generate an HTML gallery
> > from a hierarchy of jpeg images.
> > 
> > I.e. I have a directory ~/pictures which contains quite a deep
> > hierarchy of sub-directories oranising my pictures organised as I
> > want them.  It's quite big, something like 30 thousand images which
> > total something over 50Gb.
> > 
> > I want a way to generate a web gallery with much smaller iamage files  
> > (e.g.  maximum image size something like 1024x1024) in a hierarchy
> > with simple HTML (or whatever) to make it navigable with a web
> > browser.  This is 'all on one system', not for export to the WWW, it
> > will just be displayed using the apache server on the same system.   
> > 
> > I also want to be able to select just a few images and generate a
> > gallery which will be possible to export to a web server.  This is for
> > 
> > showing people a few pictures by sending them a link in an E-Mail.
> > 
> *snip*
> > 
> > So, any ideas for a relacement?
> > 
> 
> This sounds like a job for a bash shell script! Alas I'm not a very good
> bash coder (someone else can help?), but it sounds like you would want
> to do this:
> 
Yes, I write quite a lot of bash scripts, some of this would be easy...


> 1. Generate a list of files in a directory (possibly including all
> subdirectories)

Yes, easy enough to navigate a directory hierarchy (easier using
Python IMHO).


> 2. If images are > a certain image size, make a copy and scale the copy
> down to < 1024x1024 in resolution

Yes, also quite do-able.


> 3. Generate HTML code that displays the desired images.
> 
That's the killer!  :-)

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Chris Green