❗ Work in Progress ❗

Pix

Pix is an image server able to apply image transformations (resize, crop, filters, nude detection and so on).

How it works

Pix is a server designed to be an image repository. First you upload any picture, then you can request it using its unique identifier. You can apply transformations by providing a set of parameters in the URLs and voilà Pix give you exactly what you want.

Options

• support for BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG ✔️
• resize ✔️
• crop ✔️
• smart crop ✔️
• flip vertical / horizontal ✔️
• extension conversion ✔️
• command to delete cached images ✔️
• cache images ✔️
• nude detection
• JPEG interlace
• properly handle animated GIF
• custom URLs: create virtual hosts and associate a set of rules, like: /user-pictures/file1.jpge

URLs

Verb	Path	Description
POST	/	Upload images
GET	/{image_name}.{extension}?option1=value1...&optionN=valueN	Retrieve images and optionally apply effects and transformations

Libraries

Here is the list of third-party libraries used in this project. A big thank you for each author for their time and great work! ❤️

• bild: image manipulation
• mux: URL router
• godotenv: .env file reader for Go
• smartcrop: good image crops
• ksuid: K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs