pyCrusher

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Crusher (Wikipedia):

Crushers may be used to reduce the size, or change the form, of waste materials so they can be more easily disposed of or recycled…”

Much like an actual crusher, pyCrusher copies your precious little images and turns them into absolute trash (for fun!)

Install instructions

Pipx

pipx install pycrusher

Uv

uv tool install pycrusher

Pip

pip install pycrusher

Download manually (Linux/MacOS)

git clone https://github.com/jonesmartins/pycrusher
cd pycrusher
python setup.py install

Usage

Type in the command line:

pycrusher <image_file> <flags and parameters>

As default, the program saves your output in a special directory called ‘compressions’ located at path/to/somewhere, so if you use pyCrusher multiple times in path/to/somewhere, you can check your compressed images without mixing it up between your other files.
Every time you save a new file in ‘compressions’, your output file will be saved with your input name followed by the compression settings. You can still use the -o/—output flag and name it however you want.

Default name: compression/<image-name>_i<iterations>e<extra><r><p><c>[colors].<extension>

Options

usage: pycrusher [-h] [-i ITERATIONS] [-e EXTRA] [-c [COLORS ...]] [-o OUTPUT] [-r] [-p] file
positional arguments:
  file                  Name of image to compress
options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i ITERATIONS, --iterations ITERATIONS
                        Number of compression iterations
  -e EXTRA, --extra EXTRA
                        Number of nested iterations
  -c [COLORS ...], --colors [COLORS ...]
                        Color changes
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Name of output file.
  -r, --reverse         Reverses compression iterations.
  -p, --preprocess      Adds color enhancement BEFORE compression.