Author: Jess (Page 1 of 10)

….that uses lanczos resampling to serve optimized cached photos.

Find this project on GitHub here: jesssullivan/FastPhotoAPI

Interact with this API graphically here (hosted on koyeb via Docker): https://api.birdphoto.website/

Structure:

This application adopts the factory pattern; `flask run` instantiates the built-in development server by executing `create_app()` at the root of the `app/` package, while `python application.py` creates a new production application, served by waitress.

git clone https://github.com/Jesssullivan/FastPhotoAPI && cd FastPhotoAPI
python3.12 -m venv fast_photo_venv
source fast_photo_venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Structure:

├── app
├── __init__.py # create and serve development application
└── main
├── config
│ │ └── config.cfg # set directories, max image dimensions, etc
│ ├── fullsize
│ │ └── routes.py # Blueprint routing for serving verbatim image files
│ ├── __init__.py # `create_app()` entrypoint
│ ├── resampled
│ │ ├── model.py # Image resampling methods
│ │ └── routes.py # Blueprint routing for `/image/`
│ └── static
│ └── routes.py # Blueprint routing for `/static/`
├── application.py # create and serve production application w/ waitress
├── cache # resampled images are dynamically generated adn stored here
├── Dockerfile # currently deployed at Koyeb
├── pictures # full res pictures go here
├── README.md # you are here
├── static
│ └── style.css # index styling
└── templates
├── index.html
└── upload.html

Build:

Locally:

# dev WSGI:
flask run # 0.0.0.0:5000

# waitress WSGI:
flask run # 0.0.0.0:8000

Production via Docker:

## build production docker image:
# docker build -t <srv>.

## serve production docker image locally:
docker run -d -p 8000:8000 <srv>:latest

## stop local image:
# docker ps
# docker stop

## push image to a container registery:
# docker push <srv>

Basic Usage:
– Fetch a resampled & cached image `/image/<yourimage>`
– Fetch the original, unmodified image `/full/<yourimage>`