bashalbum

Simple HTML album generator written in bash. Good addition to BashBlog, maybe?

Features

generates image sprite and appropriate HTML/CSS markup for files in a folder
contains a simple javascript gallery viewer
each image can have descriptions in several languages
integrates to bashblog used in same directory

Installation

install ImageMagic or GraphicsMagick
make a directory for your albums, say, ~/www/photos/
copy album.js to that folder

Configuration

Edit balb.sh:

change bb to point to bashblog.sh, or leave empty if you're not using bashblog
change langs to the list of languages you're going to use, or leave empty if you're going to write comments in one language only. Note that the first language is the fallback language, i.e. when no other language matches user's preferred language, first one is selected. Also note that this option is taken into account only when generating html file for the first time. On further updates, comments section is preserved intact. To change this behavior, delete comments section and run balb again - it will recreate the comments section

Usage

make a subdirectory for an album, say, ~/www/photos/2014-summer-trip
(optional) set timestamp of the directory to the date of the trip (will be copied to generated file)
copy photos into the folder
cd to parent directory and run balb.sh, passing a folder name without trailing slash as a first parameter, for example:

cd ~/www/photos/ && ./balb.sh 2014-summer-trip

It will generate an 2014-summer-trip.html file with a gallery of all images located in 2014-summer-trip folder, and 2014-summer-trip.jpg for all their previews (used in 2014-summer-trip.html page)

Editing

If you're using bashblog, then add edit argument for balb.sh, like this:

./balb.sh edit 2014-summer-trip

It will call bb.sh, which will use your $EDITOR to edit the file. With future versions of bashblog, you'll be able to rename file and folder this way.

Things you can edit: