More or less a small clone of exposure.co in form of a static generator. For those of you who don't know what exposure.co is, this allows you to tell a story with your pictures.
You can find example usages here:
- http://surleschemins.fr
- http://media.faimaison.net/photos/galerie/
- https://www.thebrownianmovement.org/
- http://outside.browny.pink
- http://such.life
I wanted to learn a bit of advanced css and I wanted to self-host my data instead of using exposure.co.
Installation needs Python, pip and virtualenv
apt-get install python-pip python-virtualenv
Gallery building needs graphicsmagick library
graphicsmagick need to have a version of gcc-5-base in 5.3.1
apt-get install graphicsmagick
- Create a virtualenv, and activate it
virtualenv ve
source ve/bin/activate
- Download and install Prosopopee
pip install prosopopee
The files organisation is quite simple:
- in the root directory of your project you need a settings.yaml file that will contains the title and subtitle of your gallery
- for each gallery you'll need a folder that also contains a settings.yaml file that will describe how to display the content on your gallery
- and you put the pictures of the gallery inside the gallery folder
The root settings.yaml should contains 2 keys : one for the title of your website and one for the subtitle. It should looks like that:
title: My exploration of the outside world
sub_title: it's a scary place, don't go there
It can also optionally contain a menu and global settings.
It is possible to add a menu to your homepage that links to static pages. To do so, add a menu
key to your settings.yaml
, for example:
menu:
- about: "About"
- first_gallery: "My first gallery"
- http://twitter.com: "Twitter"
For example, this could be the content of settings.yaml
in about
folder:
title: "About"
static: true
public: false
sections:
- type: text
text: Some text, HTML <b>is allowed</b>.
You can use the static
option to get a template closer to the one of the
homepage that is better suited for a static page. You'll need to specify
"public: false" if you don't want to list this page on the homepage. On you
case you didn't specified "public: false" you'll need to specify a "cover:"
entry like any other gallery.
NOTE: except the "static: " option to disepear quite soon for a more generic approach to "choose your page style".
Global settings can be set in your root settings.yaml
, under the settings
key.
Currently a gm
settings key allows to customize the default GraphicsMagick's behavior. It looks like :
settings:
gm:
quality: 75
auto-orient: True
strip: True
resize: 50%
The meaning of the currently supported GraphicsMagick's settings is as follows :
quality
allows to customize the compression level of thumbnails (between 0 and 100)auto-orient
change the orientation of pictures so they are upright (based on corresponding EXIF tags if present)strip
removes all profiles and text attributes from the image (good for privacy, slightly reduce file size)resize
can be used to resize the fullsize version of pictures. by default, input image size is preserved
Any GraphicsMagick setting can be customized on a per-image basis (either cover
or image
, see below).
Prosopopée has a support for various themes. As for now, only 2 themes are available:
- the default one called "exposure"
- "material" based on materialcss
To specify the theme, add the "theme" key in your "settings" key or your root settings.yaml. For example:
title: My exploration of the outside world
sub_title: it's a scary place, don't go there
settings:
theme: material
By default Prosopopée use CC-BY-SA for all the content, if you want use a another licence you need add key in root settings.yaml. For example:
licence:
name: WTFPL
url: "http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/"
If you want enable the share content on social network, add key in root settings.yaml. For example: By defaut you can share on facebook, twitter, pinterest, google+.
share: true
url: "http://prosopopee.com/"
This settings.yaml will describe:
- the title, subtitle and cover picture of your gallery that will be used on the homepage
- the tags is optional
- if your gallery is public (if not, it will still be built but won't appear on the homepage)
- the date of your gallery: this will be used on the homepage since galleries are sorted anti chronologically on it
- the list of sections that will contains your gallery. A section will represent either one picture, a group of pictures or text. The different kind of sections will be explained in the next README section.
Here is an example:
title: Gallery title
sub_title: Gallery sub-title
date: 2016-01-15
cover: my_cover_picture.jpg
tags:
- #yolo
- #travel
sections:
- type: full-picture
image: big_picture.jpg
text:
title: Big picture title
sub_title: Some text
date: 2016-01-15
- type: pictures-group
images:
-
- image1.jpg
- image2.jpg
- image3.jpg
-
- image4.jpg
- image5.jpg
- type: text
text: Some text, HTML <b>is allowed</b>.
- type: bordered-picture
image: another_picture.jpg
And here is an example or a private gallery (notice the public
keyword):
title: Gallery title
sub_title: Gallery sub-title
date: 2016-01-15
cover: my_cover_picture.jpg
public: false
sections:
- ...
Images go into the cover
or image
keys.
Each image individual processing settings can be customized to override the default
GraphicsMagick settings defined (or not) in the root settings.yaml
.
This is done by putting the image path into a name
key,
and adding specific processing settings afterwards.
For example, you can replace :
image: image1.jpg
by:
image:
name: image1.jpg
quality: 90
strip: False
auto-orient: False
A gallery is composed of a succession of sections as you can see on this wonderfully totally uninteresting example gallery the gallery is composed of 5 sections:
- a full screen picture with text written on it
- a picture with borders around it
- a group of 5 pictures
- and a fullscreen picture without text on it this time
In your settings.yaml, a section will always have a type
key
that will describe its kind and additional data. Underneath, the
type
key is actually the name of an HTML template and the other
data will be passed to this template.
You can find all the sections templates here: https://github.com/Psycojoker/prosopopee/tree/master/prosopopee/templates/sections
You often have an image
key. You need to give it a path to the
actual file. By convention, those files are put inside your gallery folder but
this is not mandatory.
This displays a full screen picture as shown in the example gallery in the first and last sections. How you should use it:
With text:
- type: full-picture
image: big_picture.jpg
text:
title: Big picture title
sub_title: Some text
date: 2016-01-15
date_end: 2016-01-24 (Optional)
Without text:
- type: full-picture
image: big_picture.jpg
This displays a centered picture that is surrounded by white (the background) as shown in the second position of the example gallery.
How to use it:
- type: bordered-picture
image: another_picture.jpg
This displays a group of zoomable pictures on one or multiple lines as shown on the fourth position (after the text) of the example gallery.
- type: pictures-group
images:
-
- image1.jpg
- image2.jpg
- image3.jpg
-
- image4.jpg
- image5.jpg
The first level -
represent a line of pictures.
The second level -
represent the list of images in this line.
Know bug: the images are left aligned, so if you don't put enough images on a line, you'll have white space on the right.
This displays some centered text as shown on the third position of the example gallery. HTML is allowed inside the text.
How to use it:
- type: text
text: Some text, HTML <b>is allowed</b>.
This displays a h2 title followed by text. HTML is allowed inside of the text. If no title is declared, a separator is added.
How to use it:
- type: paragraph
title: the title
text: Some text, HTML <b>is allowed</b>.
This section is for raw html that will be centered (for example: inlining an OSM iframe).
How to use it:
- type: html
html: <tag>some html stuff</html>
This displays a very large picture with a drag-and-drop possibility on it.
How to use it:
- type: panorama
image: 7.jpg
This section is for describe the author of the story.
- type: author
name: Adrien Beudin
text: Some text
image: IMG_20150725_200941.jpg
twitter: beudbeud (Optional)
facebook: beudbeud (Optional)
website: plop.fr (Optional)
Prosopopée has a support of caption in images, you can use it on bordered-picture and pictures-group.
Exemple on bordered-picture :
- type: bordered-picture
image: another_picture.jpg
text: This is a caption
And on pictures-group
- type: pictures-group
images:
-
- name: image1.jpg
text: This is a caption
- image2.jpg
- image3.jpg
-
- image4.jpg
- image5.jpg
For all section you can define the background.
Exemple for background color
- type: bordered-picture
background: "#555"
image: another_picture.jpg
or you can use picture
- type: text
background: "url(background_picture.jpg)"
text: Some text
For text, html and paragraph section you can define the text color.
Exemple
- type: bordered-picture
color: "#333"
As a recap, here is how the files of the example gallery are organised:
example
├── settings.yaml
└── first_gallery
├── settings.yaml
└── stuff.png
The content of example/settings.yaml
:
title: "Example gallery"
The content of example/first_gallery/settings.yaml
:
title: my first gallery
sub_title: some subtitle
date: 2015-12-08
cover: stuff.png
sections:
- type: full-picture
image: stuff.png
text:
title: Beautiful Title
sub_title: pouet pouet
date: 2015-12-08
- type: bordered-picture
image: stuff.png
- type: text
text: « voici plein de blabla à rajouter et <b>ceci est du gras</b> et encore plein plein plein plein de text car je veux voir comment ça va wrapper car c'est important et il faut pas que j'oublie de mettre des margins en % sinon ça va pas le faire alala là ça devrait aller »
- type: pictures-group
images:
-
- stuff.png
- stuff.png
- stuff.png
-
- stuff.png
- stuff.png
- type: full-picture
image: stuff.png
Note: You need to be in an activated virtualenv.
In a folder containing the root settings.yaml file, simply do
prosopopee
A build
folder will be created in the current directory, containing an
index.html, static files (css & js) and pictures.
- write documentation on how to overwrite the templates
- allow to overwrite static files (for that we need a merge mechanism)
- be mobile responsivepouetpouet (this mean css + resize pictures)
- probably moar sections + allows to add legends on pictures or something like that
- add
--source
&--destination
command line options - add rss/atom
GPLv3+
16:57 <meornithorynque> et tu as besoin d'un nom ?
16:57 <meornithorynque> genre n'importe quoi ?
16:57 <meornithorynque> je propose "Prosopopée"
By chronological order: