A simple and efficient command-line tool for image compression. It supports common image formats and provides easy-to-use quality control.

• Simple command-line interface
• Supports common image formats (JPG, JPEG, PNG)
• Automatic file size optimization (targets around 1MB)
• Quality control from 1-100
• Preserves original aspect ratio
• Automatically generates output filename with timestamp

Install imgzip using Homebrew:

brew tap owo-network/brew
brew update
brew install imgzip --cask

Basic syntax:

imgzip [filename] [quality]

• filename: Path to the image file you want to compress
• quality: Optional. Compression quality (1-100). Default is 80

Examples:

# Compress with default quality (80)
imgzip photo.jpg

# Compress with specific quality
imgzip photo.jpg 60

# Compress PNG file
imgzip screenshot.png 70

Output will be saved in the current directory with format: originalname_compressed_HHMMSS.ext

Example output:

Compression complete!
Original size: 2048 KB
Compressed size: 512 KB
Compression ratio: 25.00%
Output file: photo_compressed_153042.jpg

Requirements:

• Go 1.20 or higher
• Dependencies: github.com/disintegration/imaging

git clone https://github.com/missuo/imgzip.git
cd imgzip
go build

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

Vincent Yang

• Telegram: @missuo
• GitHub: @missuo

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check issues page.

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