JavaScript library that can create animated GIFs from media streams, videos, or images
gifshot uses the following technologies:
-
The webRTC
getUserMedia()API to get permission to use a user's webcam and manipulate theCameraStreamMedia object -
The HTML5
FilesystemAPIs to handle the temporary blob URL creation -
The HTML5
videoelement to stream the blob URL -
The
canvasAPI to create a dynamic image from an HTML5 video, or images -
Web workersto process the GIF frames -
Typed Arraysto handle binary image data -
Base 64 encodingto create a base 64 encoded image string
- Animated GIF from Webcam :
- Firefox 17+, Chrome 21+, Opera 18+, Blackberry Browser 10+, Opera Mobile 12+, Chrome For Android 35+, Firefox for Android 29+
- Animated GIF from Existing Video :
- All modern browsers (IE10+)
- Animated GIF from Existing Images :
- All modern browsers (IE10+)
- Include
gifshoton your HTML page (gifshot.jscan be found in thebuilddirectory)
<script src='gifshot.js'></script>- Start using the JavaScript API to create your animated GIFs
// By default, a user's webcam is used to create the animated GIF
gifshot.createGIF({}, function(obj) {
if(!obj.error) {
var image = obj.image,
animatedImage = document.createElement('img');
animatedImage.src = image;
document.body.appendChild(animatedImage);
}
});- git clone this repo:
git clone https://git.corp.yahoo.com/sports/gifshot.git - Install Node.js
- Install all local dependencies:
npm install - Start up the included node.js preview server:
npm run preview - Go to
localhost:8001to try out gifshot
Creates an animated GIF from either a webcam stream, an existing video (e.g. mp4), or existing images
Note: If you wish to use the default options, you can just pass a callback function as the only argument
Another Note: An object is passed back to the callback function with helpful data
gifshot.createGIF({}, function(obj) {
// callback object properties
// --------------------------
// image - Base 64 image
// cameraStream - The webRTC MediaStream object
// error - Boolean that determines if an error occurred
// errorCode - Helpful error label
// errorMsg - Helpful error message
// savedRenderingContexts - An array of canvas image data (will only be set if the saveRenderingContexts option was used)
});Takes a snap shot (not animated) image from a webcam stream or existing video
Note: If you wish to use the default options, you can just pass a callback function as the only argument
Another Note: An object is passed back to the callback function with helpful data
gifshot.takeSnapShot({}, function(obj) {
// callback object properties
// --------------------------
// image - Base 64 image
// error - Boolean that determines if an error occurred
// errorCode - Helpful error label
// errorMsg - Helpful error message
// savedRenderingContexts - An array of canvas image data (will only be set if the saveRenderingContexts option was used)
});Turns off the user's webcam (by default, the user's webcam is turned off)
Note: This is helpful when you use the keepCameraOn option
gifshot.stopVideoStreaming();If the current browser supports all of the gifshot animated GIF options
gifshot.isSupported();If the current browser supports creating animated GIFs from a webcam video stream
gifshot.isWebCamGIFSupported();If the current browser supports creating animated GIFs from an existing HTML video (e.g. mp4, ogg, ogv, webm)
Note: You can pass in an array of codec extensions to specifically check if the current browser supports at least one of them
gifshot.isExistingVideoGIFSupported(['mp4', 'ogg']);If the current browser supports creating animated GIFs from existing images (e.g. jpeg, png, gif)
gifshot.isExistingImagesGIFSupported();Web Cam
gifshot.createGIF(function(obj) {
if(!obj.error) {
var image = obj.image,
animatedImage = document.createElement('img');
animatedImage.src = image;
document.body.appendChild(animatedImage);
}
});HTML5 Video
gifshot.createGIF({
'video': ['example.mp4', 'example.ogv']
},function(obj) {
if(!obj.error) {
var image = obj.image,
animatedImage = document.createElement('img');
animatedImage.src = image;
document.body.appendChild(animatedImage);
}
});Images
gifshot.createGIF({
'images': ['http://i.imgur.com/2OO33vX.jpg', 'http://i.imgur.com/qOwVaSN.png', 'http://i.imgur.com/Vo5mFZJ.gif']
},function(obj) {
if(!obj.error) {
var image = obj.image,
animatedImage = document.createElement('img');
animatedImage.src = image;
document.body.appendChild(animatedImage);
}
});Snap Shot
gifshot.takeSnapShot(function(obj) {
if(!obj.error) {
var image = obj.image,
animatedImage = document.createElement('img');
animatedImage.src = image;
document.body.appendChild(animatedImage);
}
});// Desired width of the image
'gifWidth': 200,
// Desired height of the image
'gifHeight': 200,
// If this option is used, then a GIF will be created using these images
// e.g. ['http://i.imgur.com/2OO33vX.jpg', 'http://i.imgur.com/qOwVaSN.png', 'http://i.imgur.com/Vo5mFZJ.gif'],
// Note: Make sure these image resources are CORS enabled to prevent any cross-origin JavaScript errors
// Note: You may also pass a NodeList of existing image elements on the page
'images': [],
// If this option is used, then a gif will be created using the appropriate video
// HTML5 video that you would like to create your animated GIF from
// Note: Browser support for certain video codecs is checked, and the appropriate video is selected
// Note: You may also pass a NodeList of existing video elements on the page
// e.g. 'video': ['example.mp4', 'example.ogv'],
'video': null,
// You can pass an existing video element to use for the webcam GIF creation process,
// and this video element will not be hidden (useful when used with the keepCameraOn option)
// Pro tip: Set the height and width of the video element to the same values as your future GIF
// Another Pro Tip: If you use this option, the video will not be paused, the object url not revoked, and
// the video will not be removed from the DOM. You will need to handle this yourself.
'webcamVideoElement': null,
// Whether or not you would like the user's camera to stay on after the GIF is created
// Note: The cameraStream Media object is passed back to you in the createGIF() callback function
'keepCameraOn': false,
// Expects a cameraStream Media object
// Note: Passing an existing camera stream will allow you to create another GIF and/or snapshot without
// asking for the user's permission to access the camera again if you are not using SSL
'cameraStream': null,
// The amount of time (in seconds) to wait between each frame capture of a video
'interval': 0.1,
// The number of frames to use to create the animated GIF
// Note: Each frame is captured every 100 milleseconds of a video
'numFrames': 10,
// The text that covers the animated GIF
'text': '',
// The font weight of the text that covers the animated GIF
'fontWeight': 'normal',
// The font size of the text that covers the animated GIF
'fontSize': '16px',
// The minimum font size of the text that covers the animated GIF
// Note: This option is only applied if the text being applied is cut off
'minFontSize': '10px',
// Whether or not the animated GIF text will be resized to fit within the GIF container
'resizeFont': false,
// The font family of the text that covers the animated GIF
'fontFamily': 'sans-serif',
// The font color of the text that covers the animated GIF
'fontColor': '#ffffff',
// The horizontal text alignment of the text that covers the animated GIF
'textAlign': 'center',
// The vertical text alignment of the text that covers the animated GIF
'textBaseline': 'bottom',
// The X (horizontal) Coordinate of the text that covers the animated GIF (only use this if the default textAlign and textBaseline options don't work for you)
'textXCoordinate': null,
// The Y (vertical) Coordinate of the text that covers the animated GIF (only use this if the default textAlign and textBaseline options don't work for you)
'textYCoordinate': null,
// Callback function that provides the current progress of the current image
'progressCallback': function(captureProgress) {},
// Callback function that is called when the current image is completed
'completeCallback': function() {},
// how many pixels to skip when creating the palette. Default is 10. Less is better, but slower.
// Note: By adjusting the sample interval, you can either produce extremely high-quality images slowly, or produce good images in reasonable times.
// With a sampleInterval of 1, the entire image is used in the learning phase, while with an interval of 10,
// a pseudo-random subset of 1/10 of the pixels are used in the learning phase. A sampling factor of 10 gives a
// substantial speed-up, with a small quality penalty.
'sampleInterval': 10,
// how many web workers to use to process the animated GIF frames. Default is 2.
'numWorkers': 2,
// Whether or not you would like to save all of the canvas image binary data from your created GIF
// Note: This is particularly useful for when you want to re-use a GIF to add text to later
'saveRenderingContexts': false,
// Expects an array of canvas image data
// Note: If you set the saveRenderingContexts option to true, then you get the savedRenderingContexts
// in the createGIF callback function
'savedRenderingContexts': []We provide a gulp custom-build task, that allows you to remove certain dependencies that you may not need. Pass in the custom build name that you would like (it default to webcam):
gulp custom-build --webcam
Note: For custom builds, you need to clone this repo locally. Also, the unminified and minified custom build files will be in the build/custom directory of the local gifshot repo.
###Possible build options:
webcam - The webcam-to-GIF functionality of gifshot (the existing image/video logic is removed)
image - The image-to-GIF functionality of gifshot (the existing webcam/video logic is removed)
video - The HTML5 video-to-GIF functionality of gifshot (the existing webcam/image logic is removed)
Please send all PR's to the dev branch.
If your PR is a code change:
- Install all node.js dev dependencies:
npm install - Update the appropriate module inside of the
src/modulesdirectory. - Install gulp.js globally:
sudo npm install gulp -g - Concatenate, Lint, Test, and Minify gifshot with Gulp:
gulp - Verify that the minified output file has been updated in
build/gifshot.jsandbuild/gifshot.min.jsand that no unit tests are failing. - Send the PR!
Note: There is a gulp watch task set up that will automatically build, test, and minify gifshot whenever a module inside of the src/modules directory is changed. We recommend using it.
gifshot would not have been possible without the help/inspiration of the following libraries/awesome people:
###Used
- An image quantization algorithm to reduce the number of colors required to represent the image (thus decreasing the file size). This script was ported from C into Java by Kevin Weiner and then to ActionScript 3 by Thibault Imbert, and to JavaScript by antimatter15, and fixed, patched and revised by sole.
- Copyright (c) Anthony Dekker 1994 - MIT License
- Encodes a GIF into the GIF89 spec
- Copyright (c) Dean McNamee, 2013 - MIT License
###Inspiration
- A module wrapping WebRTC's getUserMedia
- Uses web workers and encoding/decoding algorithms to produce a Base 64 data URI image
- Jen Fong-Adwent's (aka Edna Piranha) Meatspace Chat
