Image Proxy Server

Image proxy server will take an image and resize it to two specific sizes: 160x237 and 320x474.

Usage

URL should have the size and the URL that you want to resize. For example:

/image/160x237/http%3A%2F%2Fallon.it%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F02%2Fgatt.jpg

Example for SC:

http://domain.com/sc/375x175/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sc.com%2Fsg%2Fassets%2Fpws%2Fimages%2Fbanner%2F1580x350_sme_banking.jpg http://192.168.2.11/sc/375x175/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sc.com%2Fsg%2Fassets%2Fpws%2Fimages%2Fbanner%2F1580x350_sme_banking.jpg

http://52.76.132.44/sc/375x175/<country>/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sc.com%2Fsg%2Fassets%2Fpws%2Fimages%2Fbanner%2F1580x350_sme_banking.jpg

Don't forget to URL encode the path to the source image.

Images

The source path:

https://scsearchimages.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/lk/search/images/lk_08_ml_top_banner-375x175.jpg

The SC path:

https://www.sc.com/lk/search/images/lk_08_ml_top_banner-375x175.jpg

Dependancies

This requires GraphicsMagick with the JPG library. For Mac, follow this and download version 9a. Probably the same for *nix.

Refs:

http://ext.raneous.net/post/40106080462/building-graphicsmagick-on-osx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20220899/graphicsmagick-no-decode-delegate-for-this-image-format

http://justinbozonier.posthaven.com/creating-an-image-proxy-server-in-nodejs

Notes

Originally used an AMI that's in the US West (N. California) region. AMI ID: ImageProxy (ami-3c85ad79). Source here.

Smart Crop Option

Starting with the intent engine, we needed a way to intelligently crop images from DBpedia. We're using SmartCrop, actually the adapter module for Node.

Need to install ImageMagik.

Turns out it's not so great with athletes, it's focusing on tennis racquets and legs.. :l