imagenie

imagenie is a simple web app for RESTful image hosting intended for learning and study

Try this

Warning: before starting, go get some kitten JPEGs and make sure the CouchDB server is listening on localhost:5984

# start app
coffee images.coffee
# create an album named 'kittens' with thumbnails 120 pixels tall/wide
curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"thumb" : {"max_height" : 120, "max_width" : 120}}' http://localhost:8000/kittens
# post a picture to the album
curl -i -H 'Content-Type: image/jpeg' --data-binary @/path/to/kitten/picture.jpg http://localhost:8000/kittens
# -> {"ok":true,"id":"2280dd0d2ecd3ebf091bea9d7d005d49"}
# get your picture back (metadata will be striped out)
curl -o /tmp/kitten.jpg http://localhost:8000/kittens/2280dd0d2ecd3ebf091bea9d7d005d49
# get the thumbnail
curl -o /tmp/kitten-thumb.jpg http://localhost:8000/kittens/thumb/2280dd0d2ecd3ebf091bea9d7d005d49
# get some image metadata in JSON format
curl -H 'Accept: application/json' http://localhost:8000/kittens/2280dd0d2ecd3ebf091bea9d7d005d49

'thumb' is an arbitrary size identifier, you can specify as many as you want like profile, reduced, email, etc.

Tech

Technologies used in this project (in no particular order)

• Node.js
• Express.js
• CoffeeScript
• Imagemagick and node-imagemagick for node integration
• CouchDB and nanocouch for node integration

License

Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE for details)