Emin -- a simple builder of static Web galleries

emin makes static Web pages for presenting lots of imagey things: photos, PDFs, graphs with thumbnails as well as links to the image/doc file proper.

It's primarily intended for making Web photo galleries for the sorts of people who don't want to install some PHP+MySQL+Node.js monstrosity just to put their photos online. On the assumption that many people will want to tweak their gallery's appearance, the output is customisable using the Cheetah templating engine.

Supported image formats are JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PDF and EPS, with the latter three being converted to PNG for Web display. Image resizing, renaming and thumbnailing is supported, as is building a zip file to download the whole set. Large image sets can be split over several pages.

Changes

• 0.7.0, Aug 2026: gallery building from multiple files and (recursed) dirs.
• 0.6.0, Aug 2026: template and JS from local pkg data, split CSS, add --cdn.
• 0.5.0, Aug 2026: update templating to CT3 due to PyPI issues.
• 0.4.0, Aug 2026: update to new TOML-based Python packaging and Py3.
• 0.3.4, Apr 2013: add one-page and --exclude options.
• 0.3.3, May 2011: declare new Cheetah and PIL dependencies.
• 0.3.2, May 2011: first noted version, after several since 2008.