github.com/honza/gallery

ansel

Ansel is a self-hosted, zero-configuration image gallery application. With Ansel, you can showcase your photographs online without having to worry about who owns your work and how it can be used by third parties.

Ansel is written almost entirely in Clojure and is distributed as an uberjar. All you need to do is download the file and run it. Ansel handles resizing, exif data collection, captions, albums and much more. All of your data is internally stored as JSON and can be easily used by other applications. Ansel comes with a default set of templates and stylesheets and can be easily extended customized.

Users can also create accounts to post comments and likes. This feature is intended for family photo galleries.

Demo

You can see a demo here.

What already works

• Image upload
• Exif data collection
• User creation and authentication
• Album creation
• Thumbnails
• Likes
• Custom templates
• Logged in users can comment

Planned

• Email subscription to updates
• Captions
• JSON import/export
• Android app to provide intent
• Sharing to Facebook

Developing

Make sure that you have Leiningen installed.

Clone the repository:

$ git clone [e-mail]:honza/ansel.git

Download JavaScript assets with npm and bower:

$ lein npm install bower   # if bower is not already installed
$ lein bower install

Run the server with code reloading:

$ lein ring server

Note that running the server this way disables the background saving.

Run the server including background saving. This is the same as running the uberjar:

$ lein run

Releases

You can download prebuilt jar files from the release page.

Making an uberjar

This is easy with leiningen:

$ lein uberjar

License

BSD, short and sweet

Contributions

All contributions are welcome and appreciated. Feel free to open an issue if you have a question.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to @gotoplanb for the name.

Changelog

0.3.0 - (2014-02-03)

• Upgrade dependencies
• Switch to Jordan from cemerick/friend
• Fix saving of new users (use a ref instead of an atom)
• Add commenting
• Add creation datetime to photos, albums and comments
• Code clean up

0.2.0 - (2014-01-08)

• Pagination
• Photo liking
• Refactor

0.1.2 - (2013-11-21)

• Don't run init code when ns is loaded
• Redirect properly after album form submission
• Add albums page
• First cli arg is now a port number
• Add album covers
• Upload requires admin authorization
• Fix session key deletion
• Add more things to the template context