gographics/imagick
Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
79/100
- Activity 85
- Release rhythm 59
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 82
- age_days: 4873
- days_rel: 197
- days_push: 94
- n_releases_24m: 4
Adoption not part of the score
1874 stars · 185 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Go bindings to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API, enabling image manipulation from Go via CGO. It supports ImageMagick 6 and 7 through separate version branches (v1/v2/v3).
Use cases
- resize and convert images in a Go program
- generate thumbnails for uploaded images
- apply ImageMagick filters and effects from Go
- batch process images without shelling out to the convert CLI
- composite and draw on images programmatically in Go
When to choose
- you need ImageMagick's full feature set from Go code
- you want to avoid spawning external ImageMagick CLI processes
- you need fine-grained control over image operations via the MagickWand API
When to avoid
- you want a pure-Go image library with no C dependencies
- your deployment environment cannot install ImageMagick development libraries
- you only need basic operations covered by Go's standard image package
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
image-processing graphics image-processing developer-tools windows go cross-platform imagemagick magickwand cgo image-manipulation image-conversion linux macos
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/gographics/imagick · fetched 2026-08-28 · cce260c8e68e
- homepage: https://godoc.org/github.com/gographics/imagick/imagick · fetched 2026-08-29 · d59c184cddff
- site_page: https://pkg.go.dev/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 757852027879
- site_page: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/gographics/imagick/imagick · fetched 2026-08-29 · c25eddaba3d8
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| gographics/imagick | main | 79 |
For agents
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