Fussel

Fussel is a static photo gallery generator. It can build a simple static photo gallery site with nothing but a directory full of photos.

Demo Site

Features and Properties:

• No server-side code to worry about once generated
• Builds special "Person" gallery for people found in XMP face tags.
• Adds watermarks
• Mobile friendly
• Automatic dark-mode
• Uses EXIF hints to rotate photos
• Predictable slug-basted urls

Common Use-cases:

• Image Portfolios
• Family Photos
• Sharing Photo Archives
• etc

Screenshots

Demo

Setup

Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• node v18.14.0 LTS
• npm v9.3.1
• yarn 1.22

Install dependencies

• ./setup.sh

Setup Site

Configure

• Copy sample_config.yml to config.yml
• Edit config.yml to your needs (minimal change is to set INPUT_PATH)

Curate photos

The folder you point gallery.input_path at must have subfolders inside it with the folder names as the name of the albums you want in the gallery.

Example

If you have your .env setup with:

gallery:
  input_path: "/home/user/Photos/gallery"

Then that path should look like this:

/home/user/Photos/gallery:
  - Album 1
  - Album 2
    - Sub Album 1
  - Album 3
    - Sub Album 2
  - ...

Generate your site

Run the following script to generate your site into the path you set in gallery.output_path folder.

• ./generate_site.sh

Host your site

Point your web server at gallery.output_path folder or copy/upload the gallery.output_path folder to your web host HTTP root.

Quick setup

After running generate_site.sh

• python -m http.server --directory <output_path> (go to localhost:8000 in browser)

Development setup

• cd fussel/web
• yarn start

Docker

If you don't want to fuss with anything and would like to use docker instead to generate your site...

Usage

Required:

• <input_dir> is the absolute path to top-level photo folder
• <output_dir> is the absolute path to where you want the generated site written to

Note:

• The two -e env variables PGID and PUID tells the container what to set the output folder permissions to once done. Otherwise it is set to root permissions
• For the label-based config to work you must mount /var/run/docker.sock into the container, eg: -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock fussel

Optional: You can provide any value found in the config.yml file in a docker label variable using --label item=value

docker run \
  -e PGID=$(id -g) \
  -e PUID=$(id -u) \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -v <input_path>:/input:ro \
  -v <output_path>:/output \
  --label gallery.input_path="/input" \
  --label gallery.output_path="/output" \
  --label gallery.overwrite=False \
  --label gallery.parallel_tasks=4 \
  --label gallery.albums.recursive=True \
  --label gallery.albums.recursive_name_pattern="{parent_album} > {album}" \
  --label gallery.people.enable=True \
  --label gallery.watermark.enable=True \
  --label gallery.watermark.path="web/src/images/fussel-watermark.png" \
  --label gallery.watermark.size_ratio=0.3 \
  --label site.http_root="/" \
  --label site.title="Fussel Gallery" \
  ghcr.io/cbenning/fussel:latest 

Once complete you can upload the output folder to your webserver, or see what it looks like with python -m http.server --directory <output_path>

FAQ

I get an error 'JavaScript heap out of memory'

Try increasing your Node memory allocation: NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=2048" yarn build

Reference: #25