gif effects CLI. single binary, no dependencies. linux, osx, windows. #1 workplace productivity booster. #yeetgif #eggplant #golang
yeetgif
Composable GIF effects CLI, with reasonable defaults. Made for custom Slack/Discord emoji :)

go get
- Alternative 2: just download the binary
- Alternative 3: docker
- Conventions & tips
- roll
- wobble
- pulse
- zoom
- shake
- woke
- fried
- hue
- tint
- resize
- crop
- optimize
- compose
- crowd
- erase
- chop
- text
- emoji
- rain
- cat
- meta
Get it
Alternative 1: go get
go get -u github.com/sgreben/yeetgif/cmd/gif
Alternative 2: just download the binary
Either from the releases page, or from the shell:
# Linux
curl -L https://github.com/sgreben/yeetgif/releases/download/1.23.6/gif1.23.6linuxx8664.tar.gz | tar xz
OS X
curl -L https://github.com/sgreben/yeetgif/releases/download/1.23.6/gif1.23.6osxx8664.tar.gz | tar xz
Windows
curl -LO https://github.com/sgreben/yeetgif/releases/download/1.23.6/gif1.23.6windowsx8664.zip
unzip gif1.23.6windowsx8664.zip
NOTE: To use the optimize command, you'll also need the giflossy fork of gifsicle installed:
brew install giflossy
You'll likely also want to have the binary in your $PATH. You can achieve this by adding this to your .bashrc (or .zshrc, ...):
export PATH=<directory-containing-the-gif-binary>:$PATH
Alternative 3: docker
docker pull quay.io/sergey_grebenshchikov/yeetgif
docker tag quay.io/sergey_grebenshchikov/yeetgif gif # (optional)
Use it
<doc/yeet.png gif fried | gif wobble >doc/yeet.gif
gif emoji aubergine | gif wobble >doc/eggplant_wobble.gif
Hall of Fame
Post a GIF made using yeetgif with either the
#yeetgifTwitter hashtag- and/or the
#yeetgifGiphy hashtag - and/or the
#yeetgifImgur hashtag
No entries yet. Be the first :)
Usage
Usage: gif [OPTIONS] COMMAND [arg...]
Options: -n Duplicate a single input image this many times (default 30) -q, --quiet Disable all log output (stderr) -p, --pad Pad images (default true) --write-meta Write command line options into output GIF metadata (default true) -r, --raw Raw (lossless, not GIF) image output, for re-piping to yeetgif -d, --delay-ms Frame delay in milliseconds (default [25]) Commands: roll (☭ ͜ʖ ☭) wobble 🍆( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)🍆 pulse ( ͡◉ ͜ʖ ͡◉) zoom (⌐▀͡ ̯ʖ▀) shake ˵(˵ ͡⚆ ͜ʖ ͡⚆˵)˵ woke 💯 W O K E F L A R E S ( ͡ 🅱️ ͜ʖ ͡ 🅱️ ) 💯 fried fr͍͈i̗̟̲̻e͕̗d̬ m̷͔͊e̶̪̿m̷̙̈́é̵̤s̷̺͒ hue ( ͡☆ ͜ʖ ͡☆) tint 🎨༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ resize (° ͜ʖ°)¯\( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉)/¯ crop ┬┴┬┴┤ ͜ʖ ͡°) optimize 👌( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )👌 compose (ノ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ノ*:・゚✧ crowd (⟃ ͜ʖ ⟄) ͜ʖ ͡°)( ° ͜ʖ( ° ͜ʖ °) erase ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ chop ✂️( ͡°Ĺ̯ ͡° )🔪 text 🅰️乁(˵ ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉˵)┌🅱️ emoji ╰( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*🤔 rain 。°。°( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °)°。°。° scan ( ͡ ⿳ ͜ʖ ͡ ⿳ ) noise ·͙̩̩͙˚̩̥̩̥( ͡▓▒ ͜ʖ ͡█░ )̩̩͙:͙ cat /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\ meta (🧠 ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)┌ Run 'gif COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.
Conventions & tips
- To find out how a given example was made, try running
gif meta showon it (e.g.<yeet.gif gif meta show -pwill print the shell pipe of gif effects used to createyeet.gif). - Use the
--raw(-r) option for intermediate pipe steps -- this is faster than re-encoding as GIF every time. Also it's lossless. - Options with bracketed default values (e.g.
--noiseoffried) can take comma-separated values - the points will be spread over the animation length, with intermediate values linearly interpolated. - To figure out what a parameter does, try out some values around its default value, as well as much larger/smaller ones.
- To reduce GIF size, try specifying a smaller number of duplicates for static images (e.g.
gif -n 20),gif optimize, and dropping framesgif chop drop every <N>.
roll


Usage: gif roll [OPTIONS]
(☭ ͜ʖ ☭) Options: -r, --revolutions (default 1) -s, --scale (default 1) -p, --phase (default 0) -c, --crop-scale (default 1)
wobble


Usage: gif wobble [OPTIONS] [CUSTOM]
🍆( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)🍆 Arguments: CUSTOM comma-separated angles (°), e.g. 0,10,0,60,0 (default []) Options: -f, --frequency (default 1) -a, --amplitude (default 20) -p, --phase (default 0) -t, --type one of [sine snap saw sticky] (default sine) --custom (deprecated) (default [])
pulse


Usage: gif pulse [OPTIONS] [ZOOMLEVELSCSV]
( ͡◉ ͜ʖ ͡◉) Arguments: ZOOMLEVELSCSV (default []) Options: -0, --from (default 0.9) -1, --to (default 1) -f, --frequency (default 1) -p, --phase (default 0)
zoom


Usage: gif zoom [OPTIONS] [ZOOMLEVELSCSV]
(⌐▀͡ ̯ʖ▀) Arguments: ZOOMLEVELSCSV e.g. 1.0,1.5 to zoom from 100% to 150% (default [])
shake


Usage: gif shake [OPTIONS]
˵(˵ ͡⚆ ͜ʖ ͡⚆˵)˵ Options: -f, --frequency (default [1]) -a, --amplitude (default [7]) -r, --random 🌀 (default [0.75])
woke


Usage: gif woke [OPTIONS] POINTS
💯 W O K E F L A R E S ( ͡ 🅱️ ͜ʖ ͡ 🅱️ ) 💯 Arguments: POINTS flare locations, JSON, e.g. "[[123,456],[-100,23]]" (default &[]) Options: -c, --clip clip flares to image alpha (default true) -t, --type (default full) -s, --scale (default 0.9) -u, --hue (default 0.8) -l, --lightness (default 1) -a, --alpha (default 0.8) -p, --alpha-pow (default 2) --alpha-threshold (default 0.15) -r, --random 🌀 (default 0.5)
fried


Usage: gif fried [OPTIONS]
fr͍͈i̗̟̲̻e͕̗d̬ m̷͔͊e̶̪̿m̷̙̈́é̵̤s̷̺͒ Options: --clip (default true) -w, --walk 🌀 (default 10) -i, --iterations (default 1) -a 🅰️ (default [0.33]) -b 🅱️ (default [0.2]) -c 🆑 (default [0.9]) -n, --noise 🌀️ (default [1]) --noise1 🌀️ (default [0.02]) --noise2 🌀️ (default [0.5]) --noise3 🌀 (default [0.1]) -j, --jpeg [0,100] (default [84]) -u, --saturation (default [3]) -o, --contrast (default [6]) -t, --tint tint (default [0.4])
hue


Usage: gif hue [OPTIONS] [HUEOFFSETSCSV]
( ͡☆ ͜ʖ ͡☆) Arguments: HUEOFFSETSCSV (default []) Options: -f, --frequency (default 1) -a, --amplitude (default 0.1) -x (default [1]) -y (default [1]) -m, --mode one of [mul add sub pow sin] (default add)
tint


Usage: gif tint [OPTIONS] [TINTHUECSV]
🎨༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ Arguments: TINTHUECSV (default []) Options: -f, --frequency (default 1) -a, --amplitude (default 0.95) -x (default [1]) -y (default [1]) -m, --mode one of [mul add sub pow sin] (default add) -c, --center (default 0.8608454902138696)
resize
Usage: gif resize [OPTIONS]
(° ͜ʖ°)¯\( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉)/¯ Options: -s, --scale (default 1) -x, --width width (pixels) (default 0) -y, --height height (pixels) (default 0)
crop
Usage: gif crop [OPTIONS]
┬┴┬┴┤ ͜ʖ ͡°) Options: -t, --threshold (default 0)
optimize
Usage: gif optimize [OPTIONS]
👌( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )👌 Options: --kb target file size (KB) (default 128) -n, --no-resize don't resize the image -x, --width target width (pixels) (default 0) -y, --height target height (pixels) (default 0)
compose



Usage: gif compose [OPTIONS] INPUT
(ノ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ノ*:・゚✧ Arguments: INPUT Options: -x (default [0]) -y (default [0]) -z, --z-order one of [under over] (default over) -p, --position one of [center left right top bottom abs] (default center) -s, --scale (default [1])
crowd


Usage: gif crowd [OPTIONS]
(⟃ ͜ʖ ⟄) ͜ʖ ͡°)( ° ͜ʖ( ° ͜ʖ °) Options: -n crowd size (default 3) --flip 🌀 flip (default true) -x 🌀 x (default 0.5) -y 🌀 y (default 0.25) -s, --scale 🌀 [0.0,1.0] (default 0.25) -r, --rotate 🌀 [0.0,1.0] (default 0.1) -a, --alpha 🌀 [0.0,1.0] (default 0) -o, --offset 🌀 [0.0,1.0] (default 1)
erase


Usage: gif erase [OPTIONS]
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ Options: -x, --sample-x (default 3) -y, --sample-y (default 3) -t, --tolerance (default 0.2) -u (default 1) -s (default 0.5) -l (default 1)
chop
Usage: gif chop COMMAND [arg...]
✂️( ͡°Ĺ̯ ͡° )🔪 Commands: shuffle dup, duplicate drop rev, reverse Run 'gif chop COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.
text

woke | text | fried
Usage: gif text [OPTIONS] [TEXT]
🅰️乁(˵ ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉˵)┌🅱️ Arguments: TEXT (default "#yeetgif") Options: -a, --background-alpha (default 0.7) -s, --font-size (default 18.5) -y, --text-y (default 0.3) -p, --background-padding (default 3)
emoji
emoji | compose <(emoji) | compose <(emoji) | wobble | fried
Usage: gif emoji [OPTIONS] EMOJI...
╰( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*🤔 Arguments: EMOJI one or more glob expressions Options: -e, --exact match the query exactly -p, --pipe overlay the emoji over input images (instead of just creating one) -l, --list-only just list matches -s, --size (default [128]) -a, --pipe-alpha (default [1])
rain

emoji | rain

emoji | roll | rain <(emoji) <(emoji)

emoji | pulse | rain <(emoji) | compose | fried
Usage: gif rain [OPTIONS] [INPUT...] [OPTIONS]
。°。°( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °)°。°。° Arguments: INPUT Options: -d, --density (default 0.75) -b, --bounciness (default [0.3]) -g, --gravity (default 900) -s, --size (default 400) -a, --bounds-alpha-threshold (default 0.0625) -v, --initial-linear-velocity (default 300) -l, --animation-length-factor (default 1) -x, --static-x (default 0.5) -y, --static-y (default 0.5) --wrap-max-overlap (default 48) --wrap-max-overlap-frames (default 24) --initial-angular-velocity (default 2) --bounds-points (default 16)
cat
Usage: gif cat [INPUT...]
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\ Arguments: INPUT <filename>
meta
$ <doc/yeet.gif gif meta show
[2018-10-05T13:08:57+02:00] gif fried [2018-10-05T13:08:58+02:00] gif wobble [2018-10-05T13:08:58+02:00] gif crop [2018-10-05T13:08:58+02:00] gif optimize -x 0
$ <doc/yeet.gif gif meta show -p
gif fried | gif wobble | gif crop | gif optimize -x 0
$ <doc/yeet.gif gif meta show --raw
{"appName":"gif","timestamp":"2018-10-05T13:08:57+02:00","args":["fried"],"version":"1.0.0-244bcd73467a0979cb872f0e90ba8a69d4764410"} {"appName":"gif","timestamp":"2018-10-05T13:08:58+02:00","args":["wobble"],"version":"1.0.0-244bcd73467a0979cb872f0e90ba8a69d4764410"} {"appName":"gif","timestamp":"2018-10-05T13:08:58+02:00","args":["crop"],"version":"1.0.0-244bcd73467a0979cb872f0e90ba8a69d4764410"} {"appName":"gif","timestamp":"2018-10-05T13:08:58+02:00","args":["optimize","-x","0"],"version":"1.0.0-244bcd73467a0979cb872f0e90ba8a69d4764410"}
Usage: gif meta COMMAND [arg...]
(🧠 ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)┌ Commands: show show 🧠 add add 🧠 clear remove 🧠 Run 'gif meta COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.
Licensing
yeetgifitself & any original code: MIT License- Modified copy of
github.com/disintegration/imaging: MIT License - Modified copy of
github.com/fogleman/gg: MIT License - Roboto Regular TrueType Font: Apache License 2.0
- Twemoji by Twitter: CC BY 4.0
- Modified portion of
github.com/ByteArena/box2dby ByteArena (Go port)/Erin Catto (C++ original): MIT License