simple_placeholder_images

A bash script to fetch placeholder images of the dimensions you specify.

Contents

1. About
2. License
3. Prerequisites
4. How to use

1. About

I found spaceholder to fetch random public domain images, but it required npm, which seemed overkill for something this simple.

I originally intended this to create "fake" album covers instead of a stock background, but I realize that this could be used as the base for something like Buffer's Pablo service with a little ImgMagick help.

This script can use four different services:

• lorempixel
• Lorem Picsum
• Placeimg
• Unsplash Source

2. License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. For the full license, see LICENSE.

3. Prerequisites

• curl - Can be found in the curl package on major Linux distributions.
• wget (for photosum) - Can be found in the wget package on major Linux distributions.

4. How to use

Usage is imgholder.sh with the following optional arguments

• -x [#] X resolution of the resulting image (default 512)
• -y [#] Y resolution of the resulting image (default 512)
• -p [placeimg|lorempixel|picsum|unsplash] Source of image (default unsplash)
• -o [path/filename] Complete path of output, defaults to output.jpg
• -c [category] Category of image (placeimg and lorempixel only)

Download an image that is 1024x1024, from unsplash
imgholder.sh -p unsplash -x 1024 -y 1024

Download an image from placeimg that is of the nature category that's 512x512
imgholder -p placeimg -c nature