Prosopopee

More or less a small clone of exposure.co in form of a static generator. For those of you who don't know what exposure.co is, this more or less allows you to organise you picture in a way that more or less tell a story.

You can find example usages here:

• http://media.faimaison.net/photos/galerie/
• https://www.thebrownianmovement.org/
• http://outside.browny.pink
• http://such.life

Why?

I wanted to learn a bit of advanced css and I wanted to self-host my data.

Requirements

Installation needs Python, pip and virtualenv

apt-get install python-pip python-virtualenv

Gallery building needs graphicsmagick library

apt-get install graphicsmagick

Installation

1. Create a virtualenv, and activate it

virtualenv ve
source ve/bin/activate

2. Download and install Prosopopee

pip install git+https://github.com/Psycojoker/prosopopee

Files organisation

The files organisation is quite simple:

• in the root directory of your project you need a settings.yaml file that will contains the title and subtitle of your gallery
• for each gallery you'll need a folder that also contains a settings.yaml file that will describe how to display the content on your gallery
• and you put the pictures of the gallery inside the gallery folder

Root settings.yaml

The root settings.yaml should contains 2 keys : one for the title of your website and one for the subtitle. It should looks like that:

title: My exploration of the outside world
sub_title: it's a scary place, don't go there

Menu

It is possible to add a menu to your homepage that links to static pages. To do so, add a menu key to your settings.yaml, for example:

menu:
  - about: "About Me"
  - contact: "Contact"

The first part (about and contact) here are the name of the files (without the .yaml) and the second part are the menu title that will be displayed in the templates. So, here, you'll need to create a about.yaml and a contact.yaml files in the root directory. Their content are similar to galleries (see bellow).

For example, this could be the content of contact.yaml:

title: "Contact"
sections:
  - type: text
    text: Some text, HTML <b>is allowed</b>.

Gallery settings.yaml

This settings.yaml will describe:

• the title, subtitle and cover picture of your gallery that will be used on the homepage
• if your gallery is public (if not, it will still be built but won't appear on the homepage)
• the date of your gallery: this will be used on the homepage since galleries are sorted anti chronologically on it
• the list of sections that will contains your gallery. A section will represent either one picture, a group of pictures or text. The different kind of sections will be explained in the next README section.

Here is an example:

title: Gallery title
sub_title: Gallery sub-title
date: 2016-01-15
cover: my_cover_picture.jpg
sections:
  - type: full-picture
    image: big_picture.jpg
    text:
      title: Big picture title
      sub_title: Some text
      date: 2016-01-15
  - type: pictures-group
    images:
      -
        - image1.jpg
        - image2.jpg
        - image3.jpg
      -
        - image4.jpg
        - image5.jpg
  - type: text
    text: Some text, HTML <b>is allowed</b>.
  - type: bordered-picture
    image: another_picture.jpg

And here is an example or a private gallery (notice the public keyword):

title: Gallery title
sub_title: Gallery sub-title
date: 2016-01-15
cover: my_cover_picture.jpg
public: false
sections:
    - ...

Different kind of sections

A gallery is compose of a succession of sections as you can on this wonderfully totally uninteresting example gallery the gallery is composed of 5 sections:

• a full screen picture with text written on it
• a picture with with borders around it
• a group of 5 pictures
• and a fullscreen picture without text on it this time

In your settings.yaml, a section will always have a type key that will describe its kind and additional data. Underneath, the type key is actually the name of an HTML template and the other data will be passed to this template.

You can find all the sections templates here: https://github.com/Psycojoker/prosopopee/tree/master/prosopopee/templates/sections

You often have an image key. You need to give it a path to the actual file. By convention, those files are put inside your gallery folder but this is not mandatory.

Full Screen picture with OR without text on it

This display a full screen picture as shown in the example gallery in the first and last sections. How you should use it:

With text:

  - type: full-picture
    image: big_picture.jpg
    text:
      title: Big picture title
      sub_title: Some text
      date: 2016-01-15

Without text:

  - type: full-picture
    image: big_picture.jpg

Bordered picture

This display a centered picture that is surrounded by white (the background) as shown in the second position of the example gallery.

How to use it:

  - type: bordered-picture
    image: another_picture.jpg

Group of pictures

This display a group of zoomable pictures on one or multiple lines as shown on the forth position (after the text) of the example gallery.

  - type: pictures-group
    images:
      -
        - image1.jpg
        - image2.jpg
        - image3.jpg
      -
        - image4.jpg
        - image5.jpg

Every sublist (the first level - represent a line).

Know bug: the images are left aligned, so if you don't put enough images on a line, you'll have white space on the right.

Text

This display some centered text as shown on the third position of the example gallery. HTML is allowed inside the text.

How to use it:

  - type: text
    text: Some text, HTML <b>is allowed</b>.

Paragraph

This display a h2 title followed by text. HTML is allowed inside of the text. If not title is declared, a separator is added.

How to use it:

  - type: paragraph
    title: the title
    text: Some text, HTML <b>is allowed</b>.

HTML

This section is for raw html that will be centered (for example: inlining an OSM iframe).

How to use it:

  - type: html
    html: <tag>some html stuff</html>

Panorama

This display a very large pictures with a drag and drop posibility on it.

How to use it:

  - type: panorama
    image: 7.jpg

Example

As a recap, here is how the files of the example gallery are organised:

example
      ├── settings.yaml
      └── first_gallery
          ├── settings.yaml
          └── stuff.png

The content of example/settings.yaml:

title: "Example gallery"

The content of example/first_gallery/settings.yaml:

title: my first gallery
sub_title: some subtitle
date: 2015-12-08
cover: stuff.png
sections:
  - type: full-picture
    image: stuff.png
    text:
      title: Beautiful Title
      sub_title: pouet pouet
      date: 2015-12-08
  - type: bordered-picture
    image: stuff.png
  - type: text
    text: « voici plein de blabla à rajouter et <b>ceci est du gras</b> et encore plein plein plein plein de text car je veux voir comment ça va wrapper car c'est important et il faut pas que j'oublie de mettre des margins en % sinon ça va pas le faire alala là ça devrait aller »
  - type: pictures-group
    images:
      -
        - stuff.png
        - stuff.png
        - stuff.png
      -
        - stuff.png
        - stuff.png
  - type: full-picture
    image: stuff.png

Build the website

Note: You need to be in an activated virtualenv.

In a folder containing the root settings.yaml file, simply do

prosopopee

A build folder will be created in the current directory, containing an index.html, static files (css & js) and pictures.

TODO

• write documentation on how to overwrite the templates
• allow to overwrite static files (for that we need a merge mechanism)
• be mobile responsivepouetpouet (this mean css + resize pictures)
• probably moar sections + allows to add legends on pictures or something like that
• add --source & --destination command line options
• add rss/atom

Licence

GPLv3+

Credit

16:57 <meornithorynque> et tu as besoin d'un nom ?
16:57 <meornithorynque> genre n'importe quoi ?
16:57 <meornithorynque> je propose "Prosopopée"