/imageme

Tiny image gallery server.

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

imageMee

imageMee is a tiny image gallery server. Started as a fork of imageMe, but then heavily modified. It doesn't write anything to the filesystem (as imageMe does).

Usage

Just run

python3 imagemee.py

to start a local server listing images in/below the current directory. Your default browser will start a new tab at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Requires PIL.

Chrome, xdg-open, custom MIME type

This section setups a custom URI scheme that starts imageMee when e.g. imagemee:/home/user/photos link is clicked. This was tested under Debian with XFCE, but should work under other standard desktop environments as well (GNOME, KDE, LXDE).

  1. Create a imagemee.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/. Here's mine

    [Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=imageMee
GenericName=Image Gallery Server
TryExec=python3
Exec=python3 /path/to/imagemee/imagemee.py %U
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Categories=Network;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/imagemee;

  2. Update the applications database

    $ update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications

  3. Set the default application for opening URIs of this mimetype.

    $ xdg-mime default imagemee.desktop x-scheme-handler/imagemee

Chrome will now use xdg-open to open imagemee:path links (will ask first time). One can now add a bookmark for easy access to imageMee.