emcconville/wand
The ctypes-based simple ImageMagick binding for Python observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
90/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 78
- 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: 61.0
- age_days: 5451
- days_rel: 69
- days_push: 27
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
1478 stars · 201 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Wand is a ctypes-based Python binding for the ImageMagick MagickWand API, supporting Python 3.8+ and PyPy. It exposes the full MagickWand functionality for image manipulation directly from Python.
Use cases
- resize and convert images in python
- apply image effects with imagemagick from python
- read and write image metadata
- batch process images without shelling out to the imagemagick cli
- generate thumbnails in a python web app
When to choose
- you want full ImageMagick functionality from Python without subprocess calls
- you need PyPy support for image processing
- you want a lightweight binding with no compiled extension
When to avoid
- you need Pillow's pure-Python simplicity and don't want an ImageMagick system dependency
- you need GPU-accelerated image processing
- you want a C-level binding with maximum performance over ctypes
Facets
library · maturity active
image-processing sdk image-processing developer-tools python cross-platform imagemagick ctypes magickwand pypy
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/emcconville/wand · fetched 2026-08-28 · dfc900c4c982
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/wand/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · a836b90f7049
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| emcconville/wand | main | 90 |
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