ctheft

Color Theft - Retrieve colors from image or site domain in NodeJs

1. Installation

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npm install ctheft

ctheft comes with a executable binary 'csteal', to use it you can install it as global

npm -g install ctheft

2. Usage

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ctheft provides 4 easy to use methods

var ctheft = require('ctheft');

var google = 'google.com'; //site domain
var pngUrl = 'https://www.google.com.au/images/srpr/logo11w.png'; //a PNG image

var showResult = function(result){
	console.log(result);
};

var showErr = function(err){
	console.log(err);
};

//Get RGB colors of a website by domain
ctheft.siteRgb(google, showResult, showErr);

//Get Hex colors of a website by domain
ctheft.siteHex(google, showResult, showErr);

//Get PNG file colors by URL
ctheft.imgRgb(pngUrl, showResult, showErr);

//Get PNG file colors by URL
ctheft.imgHex(pngUrl, showResult, showErr);

3. Binary

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ctheft comes with a executable binary 'csteal'. Running the csteal command with no parameter will show you the following hint

Usage: csteal -s [site domain] -i [image url] -rgb -h

Options:
  -s, --site  Website domain                              
  -i, --img   Image URL                                   
  --rgb       Output color in RGB value ( Hex by default )
  -h, --help  Show usage       

4. Limitation

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• Only support PNG files on accessible URL
• ctheft use website's favicon to get the colors. While this will work most of the time, ctheft won't work as expected if the given website does not have a favicon

5. License

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Free, as it is.