Manipulate WebP images in Python

Question

I'm looking for something like PIL (Python Imaging Library), which sadly doesn't support WebP images.

I'd like to be able to do resizes and crops. Or at least convert to JPEG and then I can work it with PIL.

The development version of PIL supports WebP (https://bitbucket.org/effbot/pil-2009-raclette) — cgohlke, Jul 29 '11 at 17:39
Cool, thanks. I looked for and couldn't find a roadmap, do you know if there is one? — Francisco Passos, Aug 01 '11 at 11:14
For PIL you need the latest (2011-06-28) code from bitbucket, libwebp0 and libwebp-dev. I had problems with libwebp2 (ubuntu ppa packages). — Seppo Erviälä, Feb 18 '12 at 21:35

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 29 '12 at 02:01

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I was able to walk through the test file to see how they were doing it.

answered Feb 29 '12 at 02:01

xamox

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I should note that now Pillow (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/), fork of PIL supports webp out of the box. – xamox Nov 07 '13 at 15:47
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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 29 '11 at 17:28

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Also, Google provides an encoder and decoder for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

answered Jul 29 '11 at 17:28

unutbu

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Thanks for the tip unutbu. In this specific situation I have the pictures in memory and would prefer not to materialize them into files to call imagemagick's tools. If I were coding in C++ I might be able to hook directly into imagemagick's code though. The decoder provides an API at least, still C++, but in the end I can try to wrap it. – Francisco Passos Aug 01 '11 at 11:05
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As a matter of fact, version 6.6.8-5 is the first to support WebP images (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php) – Oct Jun 29 '12 at 14:39

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