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▐ A curated list of awesome GIF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF) resources.

A list of tools, scripts, libraries, examples & other resources related to the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF).

Contents


- General Tools (#general-tools)
- Utilities (#utilities)
- Libraries (#libraries)
- **ActionScript** (#actionscript)
- **C++** (#c)                    
- **C#** (#c-sharp)               
- **Haxe** (#haxe)                
- **Java** (#java)                
- **JavaScript** (#javascript)    
- **PHP** (#php)                  
- **Objective-C** (#objective-c)  
- **Swift** (#swift)              
- GUI (#gui)
- Hosting (#hosting)
- Online Tools (#online-tools)
- Community (#community)
- Scripts (#scripts)
- **Frames to GIF** (#frames-to-gif)                                                  
- **GIF to frames** (#gif-to-frames)                                                  
- **High quality GIF** (#high-quality-gif)                                            
- **Optimize GIF** (#optimize-gif)                                                    
- **Lossy GIF Compressor** (#lossy-gif-compressor)                                    
- **Making GIF from video** (#making-gif-from-video)                                  
- **Cinemagraphs** (#cinemagraphs)                                                    
- **Perfect loop** (#perfect-loop)                                                    
- **YouTube video to GIF** (#youtube-video-to-gif)                                    
- **Grabbing each frame of an HTML5 canvas** (#grabbing-each-frame-of-an-html5-canvas)
- Miscellaneous (#miscellaneous)

General Tools

- FFmpeg (https://www.ffmpeg.org)
- ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php)
- GraphicsMagick (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/) - GraphicsMagick is usually faster than ImageMagick.
- MoviePy (https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/) - Python module for video editing.

Utilities

- Gifgen (https://github.com/lukechilds/gifgen) - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
- Gifify (https://github.com/jclem/gifify) - Convert screen recording into GIF.
- Gifs (https://github.com/jglovier/gifs) - Storage place for GIFs.
- Gifshot (https://github.com/yahoo/gifshot) - Create animated GIFs from media by Yahoo. (demo (http://yahoo.github.io/gifshot/))
- Gifsockets (https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets) - Real Time communication library using Animated GIFs as a transport.
- X-gif (https://github.com/geelen/x-gif) - A web component for flexible GIF playback.
- GifW00t (https://github.com/yaronn/GifW00t) - JavaScript web recorder.
- gif-machine (https://github.com/lelandbatey/gif-machine) - GIF creation from YouTube videos.
- gifstreaming (https://github.com/jbochi/gifstreaming) - Live video streaming server.
- Screengif (https://github.com/dergachev/screengif) - Create animated GIF screencasts.
- vnc-over-gif (https://github.com/sidorares/vnc-over-gif) - Serves screen updates as animated GIF over http.
- gifdeck (https://github.com/jaipandya/gifdeck) - Convert your SlideShares into animated GIFs.
- Gifbot (https://github.com/schuyler/gifbot) - GIF search for Slack.
- Gif-camera (https://github.com/FuzzyWobble/GIF-Camera) - Create animated GIFs using webcam.
- Gifline (https://github.com/zehfernandes/gifline) - Chrome extension to put GIFs in your emails.
- Gifdrop (https://github.com/markjaquith/gifdrop) - Create a repository for your collection of GIF images.
- Gh-gif (https://github.com/node-gh/gh-gif) - NodeGH plugin for commenting on pull requests/issues using GIF reactions.
- Tty2gif (https://github.com/z24/tty2gif) - Record scripts and their outputs into both binary and GIF formats.
- Giftoppr (https://github.com/desktoppr/giftoppr) - Sync your favourite GIFs with Dropbox.
- Gifit (https://github.com/Fauntleroy/GIFit) - Chrome extension to make a GIF from a YouTube video.
- Ccapture.js (https://github.com/spite/ccapture.js) - Capture animations created with HTML5 canvas.
- Kap (https://getkap.co/) - Beautiful open-source app to capture your screen and export to GIF.
- Gifit (the other one) (https://github.com/rotblauer/gifit) - Get a search resulting giphy GIF in markdown in stdout, ala $ gifit kittens.
- gifski (https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski) - High-quality GIF encoder based on libimagequant.
- Gifcurry (https://github.com/lettier/gifcurry) - Open-source, Haskell-built editor for GIF makers.

Libraries

ActionScript

- Flash Animated GIF Library (https://github.com/theturtle32/Flash-Animated-GIF-Library) - AS3 library for playing Animated GIFs in Flash.

C++

- Node-gif (https://github.com/pkrumins/node-gif) - C++ library to make GIF.
- Gif-h (https://github.com/charlietangora/gif-h) - C++ one-header library for the creation of animated GIFs.
- msf_gif (https://github.com/notnullnotvoid/msf_gif) - C/C++ single-header library for creating animated GIFs.



- dot-screencap (https://github.com/Speiser/dot-screencap) - A simple libary to record your screen and save it as animated GIF.
- WpfAnimatedGif (https://github.com/XamlAnimatedGif/WpfAnimatedGif) - A simple library to display animated GIF images in WPF.
- XamlAnimatedGif (https://github.com/XamlAnimatedGif/XamlAnimatedGif) - A simple library to display animated GIF images in XAML apps (WPF, WinRT, Windows Phone).
- AnimatedGif (https://github.com/mrousavy/AnimatedGif) - A high performance .NET library for reading and creating animated GIFs.

Haxe

- Gif (https://github.com/snowkit/gif) - Haxe GIF encoder.

Java

- Android-gif-drawable (https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable) - Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
- gifanimateddrawable (https://github.com/Hipmob/gifanimateddrawable) - Use an animated GIF as an Android Drawable.
- GifView (https://github.com/RoiSoleil/GifView) - Android library to deal with GIF.
- Gif Movie View (https://github.com/sbakhtiarov/gif-movie-view) - Android View widget for displaying GIF animations.
- GifImageView (https://github.com/felipecsl/GifImageView) - Android ImageView that handles animated GIF images.
- Gif-animation (https://github.com/extrapixel/gif-animation) - Processing library to play and export GIF.
- Android-gif-encoder (https://github.com/nbadal/android-gif-encoder) - Animated GIF encoder for Android.
- GIFDroid (https://github.com/curtislarson/GIFDroid) - Android video to GIF converter.
- Android-GifStitch (https://github.com/CaptPhunkosis/Android-GifStitch) - Create and share animated GIFs.

JavaScript

- Gif.js (https://github.com/jnordberg/gif.js) - Create GIF from the DOM.
- Omggif (https://github.com/deanm/omggif) - GIF 89a encoder and decoder.
- Animated_GIF (https://github.com/sole/Animated_GIF) - JavaScript library for creating animated GIFs.
- Gifffer (https://github.com/krasimir/gifffer) - JavaScript library that prevents the autoplaying of the animated GIFs.
- Gifplayer (https://github.com/rubentd/gifplayer) - JQuery plugin to play and stop animated GIFs.
- Jsgif (https://github.com/shachaf/jsgif) - JavaScript GIF parser and player.
- node-gify (https://github.com/tj/node-gify) - JavaScript convert videos to GIFs using ffmpeg and gifsicle.
- Gifencoder (https://github.com/eugeneware/gifencoder) - Server side animated GIF generation for Node.js.
- Gif-video (https://github.com/hughsk/gif-video) - JavaScript Convert a GIF image into an HTML5-ready video.
- Gif-player (https://github.com/apankrat/gif-player) - On-demand GIF loader/player in JavaScript.
- GifgifLab-face (https://github.com/Viral-MediaLab/gifgifLab-face) - Facial-emotion detectors.
- node-youtube (https://github.com/javascipt/node-youtube) - YouTube to snapshots and GIFs.

PHP

- GifCreator (https://github.com/Sybio/GifCreator) - PHP class that creates animated GIF from multiple images.
- Spacer.gif (https://github.com/msng/spacer.gif) - PHP script offering spacer.gif 1x1.
- GifFrameExtractor (https://github.com/Sybio/GifFrameExtractor) - PHP class that separates all the frames of an animated GIF.

Objective-C

- UIimage from GIF (https://github.com/mayoff/uiimage-from-animated-gif) - UIImage category that loads animated GIFs.
- GIFRefreshControl (https://github.com/cyndibaby905/GIFRefreshControl) - "Twitter music" and "Yahoo! Weather" like pull-to-refresh control.
- UIImageView-PlayGIF (https://github.com/yfme/UIImageView-PlayGIF) - UIImageView category/subclass for playing GIF.
- FLAnimatedImage (https://github.com/Flipboard/FLAnimatedImage) - GIF engine for iOS by FlipBoard.
- Animated-GIF-iPhone (https://github.com/arturogutierrez/Animated-GIF-iPhone) - Support for Animated GIF on iOS.
- UzysAnimatedGifPullToRefresh (https://github.com/uzysjung/UzysAnimatedGifPullToRefresh) - PullToRefresh using animated GIF to any scrollView.
- SvGifView (https://github.com/smileEvday/SvGifView) - iOS load and display GIF.
- GifHUD (https://github.com/cemolcay/GiFHUD) - iOS progress hud for displaying only animated GIF images.
- Video-Background GIF (https://github.com/ElvinJin/Video-Background-GIF) - iOS Video Background GIF.
- AnimatedGifExample (https://github.com/kasatani/AnimatedGifExample) - iOS animated and transparent GIFs.

Swift

- SwiftyGif (https://github.com/kirualex/SwiftyGif) - High performance & easy to use Gif engine.
- Gifu (https://github.com/kaishin/gifu) - Animated GIF support for iOS in Swift.

GUI

- Glyph (http://www.glyph.video/) - Tool for generating seamlessly looping GIFs and cinemagraphs from videos.
- Qgifer (https://sourceforge.net/projects/qgifer/)
- GifPro (https://github.com/unixpickle/GifPro) - GIF encoder for Mac.

Hosting

- Gfycat (https://gfycat.com) - Maximum GIF/video length: 15 seconds.  Maximum file upload is 300Mb.
- Imgur (https://imgur.com) - Maximum file upload is 50MB.

Online Tools

- Vid2gif (https://imgur.com/vidgif) - Video to GIF by imgur.
- EzGif (https://ezgif.com/) - Online GIF maker and image editor.
- Giflr (https://giflr.com/) - A web app for making or remixing animated GIFs.

Community

- Giphy.com (https://giphy.com)
- /r/educationalgifs (https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/)

Scripts

Frames to GIF

FFmpeg
ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg animated.gif

Imagemagick
convert   -delay 20   -loop 0   frames*.png   animated.gif
Bash script (frames2gif.sh) for GraphicsMagick, ImageMagick, FFmpeg
#!/bin/bash                                                                                                                   
if ** $# -ne 5 ** ; then                                                                                                      
    echo "please provide the moviename and directory where to store the frames"                                               
    echo "./frames2gif.sh **directory**  **movie.mp4**  **filename.gif**  **gm|im|ffmpeg**  **png|jpg** "                     
    exit 1                                                                                                                    
fi                                                                                                                            
    if ** "png" == "$5" ** ; then                                                                                             
        suffix="png"                                                                                                          
    else                                                                                                                      
        suffix="jpg"                                                                                                          
    fi                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                              
    CONVERT=$(which convert)                                                                                                  
    GM=$(which gm)                                                                                                            
    FFMPEG=$(which ffmpeg)                                                                                                    
    FFPROBE=$(which ffprobe)                                                                                                  
    FPS=$($FFPROBE -show_streams -select_streams v -i "$2"  2>/dev/null | grep "r_frame_rate" | cut -d'=' -f2 | cut -d'/' -f1)
    echo "FPS: ${FPS}"                                                                                                        
if ** "im" == "$4" ** ; then # use imagemagick                                                                                
    FPS=$(echo "1 / ${FPS} * 100" |bc -l)                                                                                     
    $CONVERT "$1/*.${suffix}"  -delay ${FPS} -loop 0 "$3"                                                                     
elif ** "gm" == "$4" ** ; then # use graphicsmagick                                                                           
    FPS=$(echo "1 / ${FPS} * 100" |bc -l)                                                                                     
    $GM convert "$1/*.${suffix}"  -delay ${FPS} -loop 0 "$3"                                                                  
else # use crappy gif-algorithm from ffmpeg                                                                                   
    $FFMPEG -f image2 -framerate ${FPS} -i "$1/%08d.${suffix}" "$3"                                                           
fi                                                                                                                            
From DeepDreamVideo (https://github.com/graphific/DeepDreamVideo), source (https://github.com/graphific/DeepDreamVideo/blob/master/frames2gif.sh)


GIF to frames

ffmpeg -i video.mpg image%d.jpg             
convert -coalesce animated.gif image%05d.png

High quality GIF

with ffmpeg / based on this article (http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html)

- Generate a palette :

#!/bin/sh                                                   
start_time=30                                               
duration=3                                                  
ffmpeg -y -ss $start_time -t $duration -i input.avi \       
-vf fps=10,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen palette.png
- Output the GIF using the palette :

#!/bin/sh                                                                        
start_time=30                                                                    
duration=3                                                                       
ffmpeg -ss $start_time -t $duration -i input.avi -i palette.png -filter_complex \
"fps=10,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos**x** ;**x** **1:v** paletteuse" output.gif    

Optimize GIF

convert -layers Optimize output.gif output_optimized.gif

Lossy GIF Compressor

./gifsicle -O3 --lossy=80 -o lossy-compressed.gif input.gif
                                                           
Lossy Gif (https://kornel.ski/lossygif)


Making GIF from video

from moviepy.editor import *         
                                     
clip = (VideoFileClip("input.avi")   
        .subclip((4,00.00),(5,00.00))
        .resize(0.3))                
clip.write_gif("output.gif")         
                                     

article (http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/01/23/making-animated-gifs-from-video-files-with-python/#converting-a-video-excerpt-into-a-gif)

Cinemagraphs

Freezing a region

from moviepy.editor import *                                        
                                                                    
clip = (VideoFileClip("input.avi")                                  
        .subclip((4,00.00),(5,00.00))                               
        .resize(0.3)                                                
        .fx(vfx.freeze_region, outside_region=(170, 230, 380, 320)))
clip.write_gif("output.gif", fps=15)                                

article (http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/01/23/making-animated-gifs-from-video-files-with-python/#freezing-a-region)

ffmpeg \                                                                                                                         
-ss ${starttime} -t ${duration} -i ${vidfile}                         `# body of loop` \                                         
-ss TODO ${starttime} MINUS ${duration} -t ${fadetime} -i ${vidfile}  `# lead-in for crossfade` \                                
-loop 1 -i ${stillfile}                                               `# masked still image` \                                   
-filter_complex "                                                                                                                
  **0:v** setpts=PTS-STARTPTS**vid** ;                                      `# speed adjustment - not needed here, so noop`      
  color=white,scale=3840x2160,fade=in:st=0:d=${fadetime}**alpha** ;      `# crossfade alpha, double length ahead of speed change`
  **1:v** **alpha** alphamerge**am** ;                                         `# apply alpha to lead-in`                        
  **am** setpts=PTS+(${duration}-${fadetime})/TB**layer2** ;                  `# speed adjustment and offset for lead-in`        
  **vid** **layer2** overlay**oo** ;                                           `# overlay for crossfade`                         
  **oo** **2:v** overlay=shortest=1**out1** ;                                  `# overlay still image`                           
  **out1** crop=w=${cropfactor}*iw:h=${cropfactor}*ih:y=${yoffset}*ih,scale=${outputwidth}:-1, `# crop and scale`                
  eq=gamma=${gamma}:contrast=${contrast}:saturation=${saturation},unsharp                   `# final adjustments`                
" -an output.mp4                                                                                                                 

Perfect Loop

import moviepy.editor as mp                                              
from moviepy.video.tools.cuts import FramesMatches                       
                                                                         
clip = mp.VideoFileClip("input.avi").resize(0.3)                         
scenes = FramesMatches.from_clip(clip, 10, 3)                            
                                                                         
selected_scenes = scenes.select_scenes(2, 1, 4, 0.5)                     
selected_scenes.write_gifs(clip.resize(width=450), "./outputs_directory")
                                                                         
article (http://zulko.github.io/blog/2015/02/01/extracting-perfectly-looping-gifs-from-videos-with-python-and-moviepy/)

YouTube video to GIF

- Download it via youtube-dl and then convert it.

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2XpsaLqXc8

Youtube-dl (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/)

Grabbing each frame of an HTML5 Canvas

Using PhantomJS (https://phantomjs.org).

Example with this canvas (http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=0).

var webPage = require('webpage');                                                             
var fs = require('fs');                                                                       
var page = webPage.create();                                                                  
                                                                                              
var NB_FRAME = 100;                                                                           
var current = 0;                                                                              
                                                                                              
page.open('http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=0',                            
function(status) {                                                                            
  if (status === "success") {                                                                 
      var current = 0;                                                                        
      var grabber = setInterval(function () {                                                 
          var frame = page.evaluate(function() {                                              
           return document.getElementById('mycanvas').toDataURL("image/png").split(",")**1** ;
          });                                                                                 
          fs.write("./frame-" + current + ".png",atob(frame), 'wb');                          
      if (++current === NB_FRAME) {                                                           
         window.clearInterval(grabber);                                                       
         phantom.exit(0);                                                                     
      }                                                                                       
    }, 1000);                                                                                 
  }                                                                                           
});                                                                                           

Miscellaneous

- Why is the GIF I created so slow? (https://superuser.com/questions/569924/why-is-the-gif-i-created-so-slow/569967) - Using ImageMagick to solve problems concerning GIF speed.

Use

The best ways to use this list are:

- By browing the contents (#contents).
- By using  to search the contents

Credits

By Craig Davison (https://davison.io) and contributors.

Based on a recovered list (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/issues/872) by Ismail Baaj (https://ismailbaaj.fr).

gif Github: https://github.com/davisonio/awesome-gif