# picfit

Go server that resizes and manipulates images on request, acting as a proxy in front of the storage that holds the originals.


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

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/thoas/picfit
- docs: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/README.rst

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Florent Messa
- 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: make build (from a git clone)

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-21

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 2343
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 27
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/thoas/picfit (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/README.rst (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/README.rst (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/thoas/picfit (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/README.rst (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/README.rst (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/README.rst (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/README.rst (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/thoas/picfit/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/thoas/picfit/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/thoas/picfit/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/thoas/picfit/tags (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/thoas/picfit (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/thoas/picfit/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

picfit is a Go server that resizes and manipulates images on request. It acts as a proxy on a storage engine, serves the results ideally behind an HTTP cache such as varnish, and works with several storage backends and key/value stores for the keys of generated images. It is built from source with make, or with a Docker-based build that produces a binary, and run as a server process configured with a JSON file.

## Worth knowing

The build needs the libvips image library. Requests can be required to carry an HMAC-SHA1 signature made with a secret key, which a configuration option turns on.

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