# rsms/node-imagemagick

Imagemagick module for NodeJS — NEW MAINTAINER: @yourdeveloper

Repository: https://github.com/rsms/node-imagemagick
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/node-imagemagick
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2020-10-14T19:22:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5960, "days_push": 2149, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1820, forks 331 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:40.822080+00:00)

## What it is
An abandoned Node.js wrapper module around the ImageMagick command-line tools, providing APIs for identify, metadata reading, convert, and resize operations. It requires ImageMagick CLI tools to be installed and has been superseded by maintained forks and the gm module.

## Use cases
- resize images in node.js
- read exif metadata from jpeg files
- get image dimensions and format
- convert images via imagemagick from node
- batch resize photos in a node script

## When to choose
- you need a thin, simple wrapper over ImageMagick CLI in a legacy Node.js codebase
- you only need basic identify/resize/convert functionality and accept no maintenance

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - use gm or @yourdeveloper/node-imagemagick instead
- you need a maintained library with security fixes
- you want native image processing without ImageMagick CLI installed

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: image-processing
- domain: image-processing, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: imagemagick, wrapper, deprecated, exif, image-resizing, nodejs

## Member repositories
- rsms/node-imagemagick (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:40.822080+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 2026-08-30T03:19:59.874968+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rsms/node-imagemagick (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:40.822080+00:00, sha 91882ab476b3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.