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antimatter15/jsgif

Save a HTML5 Canvas to GIF and Animations. A port of as3gif GIFPlayer to JS observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/antimatter15/jsgif · homepage · JavaScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

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: n/a
  • age_days: 5886
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1200
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1106 stars · 137 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A pure JavaScript library that encodes HTML5 canvas content (single frames or animations) into GIF images, ported from the ActionScript as3gif GIFEncoder. It runs entirely client-side using LZW encoding and NeuQuant color quantization.

Use cases

  • export html5 canvas animation as gif
  • create animated gif in browser from canvas frames
  • save canvas drawing as gif image
  • record canvas animation client-side without server
  • convert canvas image data to gif in javascript

When to choose

  • you need client-side GIF generation from canvas with no server dependency
  • you want a small dependency-free JavaScript GIF encoder
  • you're capturing canvas animations frame by frame in the browser

When to avoid

  • you need modern maintained tooling or active support
  • you need GIF decoding rather than encoding
  • you need high-performance or WebP/video output formats

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

image-processing graphics graphics web-development frontend browser gif-encoder canvas animation html5-canvas lzw client-side javascript nodejs

5 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
antimatter15/jsgifmain32

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="antimatter15/jsgif")

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