# gographics/imagick

Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

Repository: https://github.com/gographics/imagick
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/imagick
Homepage: https://godoc.org/github.com/gographics/imagick/imagick
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: imagick, magickwand, imagemagick, go, imagemagick-magickwand, golang
Last push: 2026-05-31T22:27:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 79/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 85, release rhythm 59, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4873, "days_push": 94, "days_rel": 197, "gap_med": 82, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1874, forks 185 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:47.209859+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, graphics
- domain: image-processing, developer-tools
- platform: windows, go, cross-platform
- tags: imagemagick, magickwand, cgo, image-manipulation, image-conversion, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- gographics/imagick (main) score 79

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:47.209859+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:14:48.098231+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gographics/imagick (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:47.209859+00:00, sha cce260c8e68e)
  - homepage: https://godoc.org/github.com/gographics/imagick/imagick (fetched 2026-08-29T10:53:44.679918+00:00, sha d59c184cddff)
  - site_page: https://pkg.go.dev/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:53:44.694831+00:00, sha 757852027879)
  - site_page: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/gographics/imagick/imagick (fetched 2026-08-29T10:53:44.691372+00:00, sha c25eddaba3d8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.