thumbor/thumbor
thumbor is an open-source photo thumbnail service by globo.com observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
90/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 74
- Longevity 100
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: 34
- age_days: 5649
- days_rel: 95
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 4
Adoption not part of the score
10514 stars · 866 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Thumbor is an open-source, on-demand image thumbnailing service written in Python. It crops, resizes, flips, and applies filters to images via URL, using face and feature detection for smart cropping, with pluggable loaders/storages and WebP support.
Use cases
- generate image thumbnails on demand for a website
- smart crop images around detected faces
- serve webp images to reduce page weight
- resize and transform images via URL parameters
- self-host an image resizing service
- apply image filters like blur, grayscale, and contrast on the fly
When to choose
- you need a dedicated, self-hosted image resizing service with URL-based transforms
- smart cropping that preserves faces and focal points matters
- you want pluggable storage/loaders (file, HTTP, Redis, MongoDB) and custom filters
- you serve many image sizes and want WebP optimization for performance
When to avoid
- you only need simple one-off image processing in a script - use Pillow or ImageMagick instead
- you want a fully managed service rather than self-hosting
- your stack is not Python-friendly or you need a CDN-native image pipeline
Facets
service · maturity active
image-processing http-server web-framework computer-vision image-processing web-development media computer-vision python self-hosted cross-platform thumbnails on-demand-resizing face-detection smart-cropping webp image-filters extensible-loaders self-hosted-imaging web-server docker
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor · fetched 2026-08-28 · 39a97d252f8d
- homepage: http://thumbor.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9f04bac4148e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| thumbor/thumbor | main | 90 |
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