imgipsum

Dynamic placeholder images in Node. Inspired by Dummy Image, Placehold.it, and the likes.

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Requirements

• Node.js >= 0.10.0
• Express >= 4.0
• Cairo (required by node-canvas)

Installation

Download imgipsum and save it as a dependency.

$ npm install imgipsum --save

Use it as middleware in your Express app.

var express = require('express');
var app     = express();
 
var imgipsum = require('imgipsum');
 
app.use(imgipsum());
 
app.listen(8080);
console.log('Listening on ' + 8080);

Settings

You can enable the middleware passing in optional parameters. The defaults are listed below.

app.use(imgipsum({
  colorBg:     '999',      // Default image background color
  colorFg:     'fff',      // Default image text color
  maxFontSize: 120,        // Max font size
  maxHeight:   1600,       // Max image height
  maxWidth:    1600,       // Max image width
  route:       'imgipsum', // Route endpoint to  respond to
  textPadding: 0.1         // Text padding (left/right) in percentage
}));

Usage

The imgipsum middleware responds to requests at the route /imgipsum. The route parameters, detailed through examples below, are similar to the Dummy Image and Placehold.it services.

The only required parameter is the image dimensions. All parameters following that are optional.

Examples

http://localhost:8080/imgipsum/300

Generates a 300px wide by 300px wide square image with the default gray background and text of "300x200".

http://localhost:8080/imgipsum/300x200

Generates a 300px wide by 200px wide image with the default gray background and text of "300x200".

http://localhost:8080/imgipsum/300x200/225378

Generates a 300x200 image with a background color of #225378 and text of "300x200".

http://localhost:8080/imgipsum/300x200/225378/EB7F00

Generates a 300x200 image with a background color of #225378, foreground (text) color of #EB7F00, and text of "300x200".

http://localhost:8080/imgipsum/300x200?text=hello+world

Generates a 300x200 image with the text "hello world", in default background and foreground colors.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Jico Baligod.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.