tornado-gallery

Image gallery and rating server.

tornado-gallery serves a specified directory structure containing images / galleries to modern web browsers.

Current Features:

• Images are resized or served from cache on the fly to minimize bandwidth usage.
• Image ratings are displayed and stored back in image xmp section.
• Asynchronous request handling, resizing of images in multiple processes.
• Preloading of next and previous image in browser.

Technical Information

The backend is based on tornado web framwork from facebook/friendfeed. Pillow is used for image editing while python-xmp-toolkit is employed to read/write metadata. Polymer is used for the frontend.

Basic Installation

• Make sure that exempi library used by python-xmp-toolkit is installed (e.g. via brew or apt). Further bower (and nodejs) is requiered to fetch the frontend.
• Create a python virtualenv and install (dev-)requirements.txt
• Create wrapper script via python setup.py develop or start app.py in tgallery package.
• bower install fetches frontend dependencies
• Navigate to http://localhost:1234/

... or use the Dockerfile to create a docker image.

Running as docker container

Pull image via docker pull martinhoefling/tornado-gallery, then start container

docker run -ti -v /home/martin/Pictures:/gallery martinhoefling/tornado-gallery

ToDo / missing features:

• Image Cache Cleanup
• Authentication