[![https://rubygems.org/gems/fastimage](https://img.shields.io/gem/dt/fastimage.svg)](https://rubygems.org/gems/fastimage) [![https://github.com/sdsykes/fastimage/actions/workflows/test.yml](https://github.com/sdsykes/fastimage/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/sdsykes/fastimage/actions/workflows/test.yml) # FastImage **FastImage finds the size or type of an image given its uri by fetching as little as needed** ## The problem Your app needs to find the size or type of an image. This could be for adding width and height attributes to an image tag, for adjusting layouts or overlays to fit an image or any other of dozens of reasons. But the image is not locally stored - it's on another asset server, or in the cloud - at Amazon S3 for example. You don't want to download the entire image to your app server - it could be many tens of kilobytes, or even megabytes just to get this information. For most common image types (GIF, PNG, BMP etc.), the size of the image is simply stored at the start of the file. For JPEG files it's a little bit more complex, but even so you do not need to fetch much of the image to find the size. FastImage does this minimal fetch for image types GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, ICO, CUR, PSD, SVG and WEBP. And it doesn't rely on installing external libraries such as RMagick (which relies on ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick) or ImageScience (which relies on FreeImage). You only need supply the uri, and FastImage will do the rest. ## Features - Reads local (and other) files - anything that is not parseable as a URI will be interpreted as a filename, and - will attempt to open it with `File#open`. - Automatically reads from any object that responds to `:read` - for instance an IO object if that is passed instead of a URI. - Follows up to 4 HTTP redirects to get the image. - Obey the `http_proxy` setting in your environment to route requests via a proxy. You can also pass a `:proxy` argument if you want to specify the proxy address in the call. - Add a timeout to the request which will limit the request time by passing `:timeout => number_of_seconds`. - Returns `nil` if it encounters an error, but you can pass `:raise_on_failure => true` to get an exception. - Provides a reader for the content length header provided in HTTP. This may be useful to assess the file size of an image, but do not rely on it exclusively - it will not be present in chunked responses for instance. - Accepts additional HTTP headers. This can be used to set a user agent or referrer which some servers require. Pass an `:http_header` argument to specify headers, e.g., `:http_header => {'User-Agent' => 'Fake Browser'}`. - Gives you information about the parsed display orientation of an image with Exif data (jpeg or tiff). - Handles [Data URIs](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Data_URLs) correctly. ## Security Take care to sanitise the strings passed to FastImage; it will try to read from whatever is passed. ## Examples ```ruby require 'fastimage' FastImage.size("https://switchstep.com/images/ios.gif") => [196, 283] # width, height FastImage.type("http://switchstep.com/images/ss_logo.png") => :png FastImage.type("/some/local/file.gif") => :gif File.open("/some/local/file.gif", "r") {|io| FastImage.type(io)} => :gif FastImage.size("http://switchstep.com/images/favicon.ico", :raise_on_failure=>true, :timeout=>0.01) => raises FastImage::ImageFetchFailure FastImage.size("http://switchstep.com/images/favicon.ico", :raise_on_failure=>true, :timeout=>2) => [16, 16] FastImage.size("http://switchstep.com/images/faulty.jpg", :raise_on_failure=>true) => raises FastImage::SizeNotFound FastImage.new("http://switchstep.com/images/ss_logo.png").content_length => 4679 FastImage.size("http://switchstep.com/images/ss_logo.png", :http_header => {'User-Agent' => 'Fake Browser'}) => [300, 300] FastImage.new("http://switchstep.com/images/ExifOrientation3.jpg").orientation => 3 FastImage.size("data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==") => [1, 1] ``` ## Installation ### Gem ```sh gem install fastimage ``` ### Bundler Add fastimage to your Gemfile. ```ruby gem 'fastimage' ``` Then you're off - just use `FastImage.size()` and `FastImage.type()` in your code as in the examples. ## Documentation http://sdsykes.github.io/fastimage/rdoc/FastImage.html ## Maintainer FastImage is maintained by Stephen Sykes (`sdsykes). Support this project by using [LibPixel](https://libpixel.com) cloud based image resizing and processing service. ## Benchmark It's way faster than conventional methods (for example the image_size gem) for most types of file when fetching over the wire. ```ruby irb> uri = "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Mardin_1350660_1350692_33_images.jpg" irb> puts Benchmark.measure {open(uri, 'rb') {|fh| p ImageSize.new(fh).size}} [9545, 6623] 0.680000 0.250000 0.930000 ( 7.571887) irb> puts Benchmark.measure {p FastImage.size(uri)} [9545, 6623] 0.010000 0.000000 0.010000 ( 0.090640) ``` The file is fetched in about 7.5 seconds in this test (the number in brackets is the total time taken), but as FastImage doesn't need to fetch the whole thing, it completes in less than 0.1s. You'll see similar excellent results for the other file types, except for TIFF. Unfortunately TIFFs tend to have their metadata towards the end of the file, so it makes little difference to do a minimal fetch. The result shown below is mostly dependent on the exact internet conditions during the test, and little to do with the library used. ```ruby irb> uri = "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Shinbutsureijoushuincho.tiff" irb> puts Benchmark.measure {open(uri, 'rb') {|fh| p ImageSize.new(fh).size}} [1120, 1559] 1.080000 0.370000 1.450000 ( 13.766962) irb> puts Benchmark.measure {p FastImage.size(uri)} [1120, 1559] 3.490000 3.810000 7.300000 ( 11.754315) ``` ## Tests You'll need to bundle, or `gem install fakeweb` and possibly also `gem install test-unit` to be able to run the tests. ```sh ruby test/test.rb ``` ## References - [Pennysmalls - Find jpeg dimensions fast in pure Ruby, no image library needed](http://pennysmalls.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/find-jpeg-dimensions-fast-in-pure-ruby-no-ima/) - [Antti Kupila - Getting JPG dimensions with AS3 without loading the entire file](https://www.anttikupila.com/archive/getting-jpg-dimensions/) - [imagesize gem](https://rubygems.org/gems/imagesize) - [EXIF Reader](https://github.com/remvee/exifr) ## FastImage in other languages - [Python by bmuller](https://github.com/bmuller/fastimage) - [Swift by kaishin](https://github.com/kaishin/ImageScout) - [Go by rubenfonseca](https://github.com/rubenfonseca/fastimage) - [PHP by tommoor](https://github.com/tommoor/fastimage) - [Node.js by ShogunPanda](https://github.com/ShogunPanda/fastimage) - [Objective C by kylehickinson](https://github.com/kylehickinson/FastImage) - [Android by qstumn](https://github.com/qstumn/FastImageSize) - [Flutter by ky1vstar](https://github.com/ky1vstar/fastimage.dart) ## Licence MIT, see file "MIT-LICENSE"