Fussel

Fussel is a static photo gallery generator. It can build a simple static photo gallery site with nothing but a directory full of photos.

Features and Properties:

• Absolutely no server-side code to worry about once deployed
• Builds special "Person" gallery for people found in XMP face tags.
• Adds watermarks
• Mobile friendly
• Automatic dark-mode

Screenshots

Demo

Setup

Requirements

• Python 3
• Node + Yarn

Install dependencies

Site Generator

• pip install -r requirements.txt

Node Frontend

• cd web
• yarn install
• cd ../

Setup Site

Configure

• Copy .env.example to .env
• Edit .env to your needs (minimal change is to set INPUT_PATH)

Curate photos

The folder you point INPUT_PATH at, must have albums in subfolders inside it with the folder names as the name of the albums you want in the gallery. Any further-nested folders will be ignored.

Example

If you have your .env setup with: INPUT_PATH = /home/user/Photos/gallery

Then that path should look like this:

/home/user/Photos/gallery:
  - Album 1
  - Album 2
  - Album 3
  - ...

Generate your site

Run the following script to generate your site into web/build folder.

• ./generate_site.sh

Host your site

Point your web server at web/build or copy/upload the web/build folder to your web host HTTP root.

Quick setup

After running generate_site.sh

• python -m http.server --directory web/build (go to localhost:8000 in browser)

Development setup

• cd web
• yarn start

Docker

If you don't want to fuss with anything and would like to use docker instead to generate your site...

Usage

Required:

• /my-input-folder is the absolute path to top-level photo folder
• /my-output-folder is the absolute path to where you want the generated site written to

Note: The two -e env variables PGID and PUID tells the container what to set the output folder permissions to once done. Otherwise it is set to root permissions

docker run \
    -e PGID=$(id -g) \
    -e PUID=$(id -u) \
    -v /my-input-folder:/input:ro \
    -v /my-output-folder:/fussel/web/build \
	cbenning/fussel:latest

Optional: You can provide any value found in the .env.sample file in a docker env variable using -e MYVAR=THING

docker run \
    -e PGID=$(id -g) \
    -e PUID=$(id -u) \
    -v /my-input-folder:/input:ro \
    -v /my-output-folder:/fussel/web/build \
    -e HTTP_ROOT=/my/alternate/path \
    -e WATERMARK_ENABLE=false \
    cbenning/fussel:latest

Once complete you can upload the output folder to your webserver, or see what it looks like with python -m http.server --directory /my-output-folder