mkimage-server

On-demand image resize server based on 'express'

Installation & running

1: assuming you have proper node 0.8.x installed

2: user that runs the server is 'mkimage'

3: set desired settings in config directory

# install imagemagick
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends build-essential imagemagick

# clone the repo
git clone git://github.com/Boxee/mkimage-server.git

# install node dependencies
cd mkimage-server && npm install

# create `cache_dir`
mkdir -p /mnt/cache/mkimage-server
chown mkimage.mkimage /mnt/cache/mkimage-server

# run it (in production)
NODE_ENV=production bin/mkimage

Basic usage

• url - the url of remote image to be converted (and cached)
• w - width of resized image
• h - height of resized image
• q - quality of resized image (default is 92)

the url parameter must be encoded, otherwise unexpected behaviour may occur.

• the url http://www.google.com/images/icons/product/apps-128.png
• becomes http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Fproduct%2Fapps-128.png

Examples

# resize an image with keeping ratio (width)
http://example.com/resize?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Fproduct%2Fapps-128.png&w=200

# resize an image with keeping ratio (height)
http://example.com/resize?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Fproduct%2Fapps-128.png&h=200

# resize an image to given size without keeping the ratio
http://example.com/stretch?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Fproduct%2Fapps-128.png&w=200&h=200

# crop an image from the CENTER (height is optional),
# very basic crop for now, will add more options in future
http://example.com/crop?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Fproduct%2Fapps-128.png&w=200

# return image with same size as original (just cache it)
http://example.com/cache?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Fproduct%2Fapps-128.png

Old API (@lieldulev)

# resize an image with keeping ratio (width)
http://example.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Fproduct%2Fapps-128.png&width=240

# resize an image with keeping ratio (height)
http://example.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Fproduct%2Fapps-128.png&height=240

# resize an image to given size without keeping the ratio
http://example.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Fproduct%2Fapps-128.png&width=240&height=240

# return image with same size as original
http://example.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Fproduct%2Fapps-128.png

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