sigal 0.8.0

Simple static gallery generator

Sigal is yet another simple static gallery generator. It’s written in Python and it allows to build a static gallery of images with the following features:

• Process directories recursively.

• Generate HTML pages using jinja2 templates.

• Relative links for a portable output.

• Support themes, videos, EXIF tags, zip download.

• Parallel processing.

• MIT licensed.

The idea behind Sigal is to ease the use of the javascript librairies like galleria. These librairies do a great job to display the images, Sigal does what is missing: resize images, create thumbnails, generate html pages.

Sigal is compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.3.

Links :

• Latest documentation on the website

• Source, issues and pull requests on Github

• Releases on PyPI

• #sigal on Freenode, or with the webchat interface.

• Mailing list at Librelist (Archives).

Themes & Demo

Sigal comes with two themes, based on the colorbox and galleria Javascript libraries:

• colorbox demo

• galleria demo

Changelog

Version 0.8.0

Released on 2014-08-30.

• Add a setting and a cli option to specify the gallery title (title and --title) (ref #91).

• Add a mailing list at Librelist (sigal at librelist.com).

• Add an option to specify the port to use for the serve command.

• Replace argh with click.

• Don’t overwrite existing config file (with the init command).

• Don’t fail if there are no pictures.

• Use plain css to simplify theme customizing (no more sass).

• Upgrade colorbox 1.5.13

• Upgrade galleria 1.4.2

• Use HTML5 output for Markdown.

• Allow to read additional data for images from markdown files.

• Use case insensitive check for file extensions (fix #99).

• Add a plugin system with blinker, and make plugins for copyright and adjust.

• Mention the irc channel on freenode and add travis notifications.

• Avoid failure if GPS tags contain zero values (fix #96).

• Remove output file when the ffmpeg process has been interrupted (ref #90).

• Fix thumbnail urls to always use slashes (ref #81).

Version 0.7

Released on 2014-05-10.

• Refactor the way to store album and media informations. Albums, images and videos are now represented by objects, and these objects are directly available in the templates. The following template variables have been renamed:

  • albums => album.albums

  • breadcrumb => album.breadcrumb

  • description => album.description

  • index_url => album.index_url

  • medias => album.medias

  • title => album.title

  • media.file => media.filename

  • media.thumb => media.thumbnail

  • zip_gallery => album.zip

• New settings to define the sort order for albums and medias: albums_sort_reverse, medias_sort_attr, medias_sort_reverse [#2].

• New setting (autorotate_images) to disable autorotation of images, and warn about the incompatibility between autorotation and EXIF copy [#72].

• New settings to filter directories and files with pattern matching (ignore_directories and ignore_files) [#63].

• New setting to customize the column width of the colorbox theme (colorbox_column_size).

• New setting to choose the media format used for ZIP archives (zip_media_format).

• Update galleria to 1.3.5 and add the history plugin [#93].

• Skip image instead of failing when the image is corrupted [#69].

• Better handling of album urls (quoting special caracters).

Version 0.6.0

Released on 2014-01-25.

• Add support for Python 3.3.

• Parallel processing (new command-line option -n|--ncpu, uses all cores by default).

• Adding keyboard shortcuts for the galleria theme [#32, #39].

• Include symlinked directories in the source directory.

• New setting to use symbolic links for original files (orig_link) [#36].

• New setting for the video size (video_size) [#35].

• Add a colored formatter for verbose and debug modes.

• webm_options is now a list with ffmpeg options, to allow better flexibility and compatibility with avconv.

• New setting to copy files from the source directory to the destination (files_to_copy).

Bugfixes:

• Avoid issues with corrupted exif data.

• Fix exif data not read from .JPEG files [#58].

• Fix whitespace issues with video filenames [#54].

Version 0.5.1

Released on 2013-09-23.

• Fix error in calculating the degrees from exif data.

Version 0.5.0

Released on 2013-09-06.

• Add support for videos. Videos are encoded to webm (see the webm_options setting).

• Check jinja2’s version for lstrip_blocks (only for Jinja 2.7+).

• Add option to zip galleries. See the zip_gallery setting.

• Add support for EXIF tags and GPS coordinates. EXIF tags are added to the media context (for themes). The copy_exif_data setting allow to choose if the exif data from the original image is copied to the resized image.

• Correct themes design with long directory names.

• Add the possibility to adjust images after resizing (with the Adjust processor from Pilkit). See the adjust_options setting.

• Add the possibility to disable image resizing.

Version 0.4.1

Released on 2013-07-19.

• Fix a bug with unicode paths and filenames.

• Update colorbox to 1.4.26

• Add links to the original images.

Version 0.4.0

Released on 2013-06-12.

• Add a setting to disable the writing of HTML files.

• Use Pilkit.

• Remove multiprocessing.

• Add new settings for the source and destination directories.

• All meta-data are available in the templates.

• Galleria theme is now responsive

• Add a setting to choose the pilkit processor used to resize the images.

Version 0.3.3

Released on 2013-03-20.

• Catch exception when PIL fails to read the exif metadata.

Version 0.3.2

Released on 2013-03-14.

• Bugfix for PNG files which don’t have exif metadata.

• Move unit tests to py.test.

• Fix images path in colorbox theme.

• Group package meta in a module.

Version 0.3.1

Released on 2013-03-11.

• Fix the path of the sample config file (which was not included in the previous release).

Version 0.3

Released on 2013-03-04.

• Fix packaging issues.

• New setting index_in_url to optionally add index.html to the URLs.

• New setting links to specify a list of links.

• Use EXIF info to fix orientation.

• Replace the jpg_quality setting with a dict of options.

• Manage directories with only sub-directories and add some checks.

• Change the command-line interface to use sub-commands: init, build and serve.

• Parallel processing.

Version 0.2

Released on 2012-12-20.

• Improve the bundled themes (update galleria, new colorbox theme).

• Improve the CLI (new arguments, nicer output).

• Change the licence to MIT.

• Change the description file to a markdown syntax file.

• Change the settings file to a python file, and add more settings.

Version 0.1

Released on 2012-05-13.

First public release.