sigal 0.5.0

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.

• 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 currently compatible only with Python 2.

Links :

• Latest documentation on the website

• Source, issues and pull requests on Github

• Releases on PyPI

Themes & Demo

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

• colorbox demo

• galleria demo

Changelog

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.