# imaginary

HTTP service written in Go that resizes, crops and converts images with libvips.

STUB. This software has no release or pre-release in four years, or its project site no longer shows it, so it is not part of the register, not counted and not indexed. It will be checked again.

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/imaginary/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: Tomas Aparicio
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2015
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: media
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: go get

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2020-08-12

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 6091
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 52
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h2non/imaginary/master/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/releases/tag/v1.2.4 (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/releases/tag/v1.2.4 (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary/tree/0.1.0-rc.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

imaginary is an HTTP service that performs image operations on the requests it receives: resize, crop, rotate, watermark, format conversion and more, as listed in the [README](https://github.com/h2non/imaginary). It calls libvips through a Go binding. The README gives install routes for the Go source with `go get`, the official Docker image with a Compose example, which bundles libvips, and deployments to Fly.io, Cloud Foundry and Google Cloud Run. Images can arrive in the POST body, from a local directory mounted into the container, or from a remote URL when the server starts with the URL source flag. Optional controls are an API key, URL signatures, a request throttle and CORS support. Tomas Aparicio is named as the original author and maintainer.

## Worth knowing

The newest tagged release is older than the default branch, which has commits after it. The source install needs libvips installed separately, and the README offers a preinstall script for that. The Docker image is the route that needs no separate libvips setup.

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