# emcconville/wand

The ctypes-based simple ImageMagick binding for Python

Repository: https://github.com/emcconville/wand
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wand
Homepage: http://docs.wand-py.org/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: wand, python, ctypes, imagemagick
Last push: 2026-08-06T13:45:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 90/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 78, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5451, "days_push": 27, "days_rel": 69, "gap_med": 61.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- 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 1478, forks 201 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:50.551681+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, sdk
- domain: image-processing, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: imagemagick, ctypes, magickwand, pypy

## Member repositories
- emcconville/wand (main) score 90

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:50.551681+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 2026-08-30T04:34:21.309798+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/emcconville/wand (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:50.551681+00:00, sha dfc900c4c982)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/wand/json (fetched 2026-08-29T11:41:54.497704+00:00, sha a836b90f7049)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.