gifsicle

gifsicle-bin

gifsicle manipulates GIF image files in many different ways. Depending on command line options, it can merge several GIFs into a GIF animation; explode an animation into its component frames; change individual frames in an animation; turn interlacing on and off; add transparency and much more.

You probably want imagemin-gifsicle instead.

Install

$ npm install gifsicle

Usage

import {execFile} from 'node:child_process';
import gifsicle from 'gifsicle';

execFile(gifsicle, ['-o', 'output.gif', 'input.gif'], error => {
	console.log('Image minified!');
});

CLI

$ npm install --global gifsicle

$ gifsicle --help

Similar packages

Other packages similar to gifsicle

gifencoder

The gifencoder package is used for creating GIFs from a series of images or canvas frames. Unlike gifsicle, which focuses on optimizing and editing existing GIFs, gifencoder is more suited for generating new GIFs programmatically.

gif-frames

The gif-frames package allows you to extract frames from a GIF as images. While gifsicle can also extract frames, gif-frames provides more control over the extraction process, such as selecting specific frames or ranges.

sharp

The sharp package is a high-performance image processing library that supports multiple image formats, including GIF. It can resize, crop, and manipulate images, but it is more general-purpose compared to gifsicle, which is specialized for GIFs.