Sharing a collection of images with third parties with a URL link

[madmak]

Hello to all contributors. I looked at the project and I really liked it. I want to use it, but I'm missing something that I couldn't find. Is it possible to share a collection of images?

[xemle]

Hi @madmak

I'm happy, that you like HomeGallery.

Regarding sharing there are currently 2 possibilities

• Create a user so the whole gallery can be viewed password protected or
• Export a subset by a query as static web gallery. You can use random prefix for it so the public can not guess the URL and users access the files without a password

Users are currently not limited to a subset of the gallery since it was a design decision to reduce the complexity of this spare time project.

Further download of original files was previous requested but not yet implemented since I do not have a personal need for it.

For both PRs are welcome and I can assist for implementation questions.

[madmak]

Hi @xemle Thank you very much for your quick response and attention. Now let's check if I understood your suggestion correctly. Do you suggest I run a second instance of the gallery but with a unique URL so that it can only be seen by its owners?

[madmak]

Oh! I understand. You suggest using a command line tool to generate a static website with images. Again, many thanks for the quick reply.

[xemle]

Correct. My usecase is to offer family members of a larger event a static export gallery. I set a random prefix so that user can access them easily without any hassle e.g. by https://example.com/coeWd8eDh4BS where coeWd8eDh4BS is the --base-path argument value of the export command.

Or you implement this feature that users can be limited to a subset of the gallery by a query expression ;-)

[xemle]

Have you also checked other open source self hosted galleries? Maybe they are also worth for an evaluation. Dont get me wrong, I am happy when you stay but I am also not sorry if some other software fits your need better.