compress-pics

A command-line tool that uses the tinyPNG API to compress images. It simplifies the process of batch compressing images with tinyPNG in any directory of your project.

Of course, you need to apply a tinyPNG API Key first, it's free and convenient.

• Install
• Usage
• Additional information
  • What if it show an error while compressing?
• Contribution

Install

npm i compress-pics -D

or

yarn add compress-pics -D

or

pnpm i compress-pics -D

Usage

In your package.json file, add the following script:

{
  "scripts": {
    "compress-pics": "compress-pics"
  }
}

Then run in your project directory:

npm run compress-pics

or

yarn compress-pics

Then, you will see the following prompt:

   ____                                                ____   _
  / ___| ___   _ __ ___   _ __   _ __  ___  ___  ___  |  _ \ (_)  ___  ___
 | |    / _ \ | '_ ` _ \ | '_ \ | '__|/ _ \/ __|/ __| | |_) || | / __|/ __|
 | |___| (_) || | | | | || |_) || |  |  __/\__ \\__ \ |  __/ | || (__ \__ \
  \____|\___/ |_| |_| |_|| .__/ |_|   \___||___/|___/ |_|    |_| \___||___/
                         |_|

? Select your images directory: (Use arrow keys or type to search)
❯ ./
  assets
  bin
  dist
  src

After selecting the image directory, you will see the following prompt:

? Select your images directory: assets
Your images directory is: assets
┌────────────────────────────┬───────┬──────────┬─────────────┐
│                            │ Count │ Size(MB) │ Size(Bytes) │
├────────────────────────────┼───────┼──────────┼─────────────┤
│ canBeCompressedPicFiles    │ 2     │ 0.19     │ 202319      │
├────────────────────────────┼───────┼──────────┼─────────────┤
│ cannotBeCompressedPicFiles │ 0     │ 0.00     │ 0           │
└────────────────────────────┴───────┴──────────┴─────────────┘
Notice: Gif and svg files cannot be compressed.
Total size(MB): 0.19MB
Total size(Bytes): 202319
? Please input a valid tinypng api key to continue ( You can find it at https://tinify.com/dashboard/api ):

After entering the tinyPNG API Key, the compression will start automatically.

? Please input a valid tinypng api key to continue ( You can find it at https://tinify.com/dashboard/api ):  YOUR_API_KEY_HERE
processing:  1 / 2 assets/continue.png
processing:  2 / 2 assets/logo.png
  _____  _         _       _                _
 |  ___|(_) _ __  (_) ___ | |__    ___   __| |
 | |_   | || '_ \ | |/ __|| '_ \  / _ \ / _` |
 |  _|  | || | | || |\__ \| | | ||  __/| (_| |
 |_|    |_||_| |_||_||___/|_| |_| \___| \__,_|

┌────────────────────────────┬───────┬──────────┬─────────────┐
│                            │ Count │ Size(MB) │ Size(Bytes) │
├────────────────────────────┼───────┼──────────┼─────────────┤
│ canBeCompressedPicFiles    │ 2     │ 0.06     │ 59916       │
├────────────────────────────┼───────┼──────────┼─────────────┤
│ cannotBeCompressedPicFiles │ 0     │ 0.00     │ 0           │
└────────────────────────────┴───────┴──────────┴─────────────┘
Notice: Gif and svg files cannot be compressed.
Total size(MB): 0.06MB
Total size(Bytes): 59916
================================================================================
The total size has decreased by 70.39% after compression.

Additional information

What if it show an error while compressing?

Most of the time, it's because you have exceeded the monthly limit of tinyPNG. You can use another API Key to continue. Like below:

processing:  72 / 123 src/images/payWays/master.png
processing:  73 / 123 src/images/payWays/p30_promo_banner_en.png
The error message is: Your monthly limit has been exceeded. (HTTP 429/TooManyRequests)
? Please input a valid tinypng api key to continue ( You can find at https://tinify.com/dashboard/api ):  YOUR_ANOTHER_API_KEY_HERE
processing:  73 / 123 src/images/payWays/p30_promo_banner_en.png
processing:  74 / 123 src/images/payWays/p30_promo_banner_zh.png

Contribution

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to open an issue or pull request.

Enjoy it! 😄

Have a nice day!