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PiGallery 2

PiGallery 2 is a self-hosted directory-first photo gallery website.

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The gallery is a directory first gallery. It renders your read-only directory structure as it is. Supports rich search queries and fully dockerized.

Main features:

Photo viewer

Nice photo viewer with optional information panel that shows all important information about the photo.

Map

PiGallery2 reads the location data of the photos and puts them on a nice map. It by default supports OpenStreetMap and Mapbox, but you can also add you own favourite map provider. The gallery also supports *.gpx file to show your tracked path on the map too. It recognize different type of activities (like: running, flying) from the *.gpx files. The app shows these activities with different color and icon on the map.

Advanced searching

App supports full boolean logic with negation and exact or wildcard search. It also provides handy suggestions with autocomplete.

Match types
person:"John" # exact match
person:(John) # wildcard match
person:John # same as person:(John)
person!:John # negation
Supported keywords
after:2020
before:2021
orientation:portrait
orientation:landscape
max-rating:1
max-rating:5
min-resolution:1
max-resolution:10
min-faces:1
max-faces:10
keyword:"house"
caption:"caption"
directory:"dir name/another dir"
file_name:"img.jpg",
person:"John",
position:"USA" # use city, state, country names
5-km-from:(New York) # photos 5 km from the center of New York
any_text:"apple", # searches for apple everywhere, "any_text:" can be omitted
last-4-days:every-week
last-4-days:every-month
last-4-days:every-year
last-4-days:2-days-ago
last-4-days:2-weeks-ago
last-4-days:2-months-ago
last-4-days:2-years-ago
See all here: search-query-parser.service.ts.

Bool expressions
John and Kate # photos with "John" and "Kate" (any string match)
John Kate # same as "John and Kate"
John or Kate # photos with "John" or "Kate" (any string match)
2-of:(John, Kate, Steve) # lists photos that satisfies at least 2 out of the 3 names (any string match)

Sort order
Add an empty file like .order_[ORDER].pg2conf to a folder to override the default sorting for that folder. It's not recursively applied to subfolders.
Replace [ORDER] in the above shown filename by one of the following values:
descending_name
ascending_name
descending_date
ascending_date
random

Sharing

You can share your photo folders with your friends. The sharing link can be also password protected. Limitations: you cannot share search results.

Video playback

It also supports *.mp4, *.webm, *.ogv and *.ogg files.

Local filters

Rich filter panel, where you can further filter your directory or search results.

Blog

You can add *.md files to your directory and app will show them. You can tag section in the *.md files with <!-- @pg-date <ISO_DATE> -->, like: <!-- @pg-date 2015-06-29 --> to attach them to a date. Then, if you group by date, they will show up at the assigned day.

Logical Albums

You can create logical albums (a.k.a.: Saved search) from any search query. Current limitation: It is not possible to create albums from a manually picked photos.

Faces

PiGallery2 can read face reagions from photo metadata. Current limitation: No ML-based, automatic face detection.

Random link

You can create a link that will serve a random photo from your gallery. You can use this link with 3rd party applications, like with an automatic wallpaper changer gadget.

Rich settings

PiGallery2 has a rich settings page where you can easily set up the gallery. Click here to see all the setting in the live demo.

All features:

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