An image thumbnail generation system that is built on Clojure and Compojure.
- Provides an image broker actor that fetches the requested image, resizes it, caches it to a Facebook Haystack-style cache and returns the cached version on subsequent requests
- Scalable
- Capable of handling large amounts of image traffic
Clone the repository
$ git clone https://github.com/niktheblak/imagestash.git
Start the service with Leiningen:
$ lein ring server-headless
After this the service exposes a web API at http://localhost:8080/resize. The API takes the following parameters:
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| source | String | x | URL of the source image |
| size | Integer | x | Desired size of the image |
| format | String | Desired image format (jpeg, png or gif) |
For example:
http://localhost:8080/resize?source=https://channelcloud-a.akamaihd.net/mobilevideopanel_2c9314d9aa5f4c4a_364x618_29ada748cb59b5dd.JPEG&size=800