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The https://kraken.io https://kraken.io service has an API, and there's a gulp and grunt plugin and a bunch of other stuff here: https://kraken.io/docs/integrat

The https://kraken.io https://kraken.io service has an API, and there's a gulp and grunt plugin and a bunch of other stuff here: https://kraken.io/docs/integration-libraries https://kraken.io/docs/integration-libraries

blowski 5y ago
That looks perfect, except for it being a SaaS product with a minimum monthly spend. Is there a similar pay-as-you-go model, or ideally self-hosted?
- karim79 5y ago
  Good question - not at the moment, but we're evaluating the idea. Perhaps the answer would be to just make the build pipeline tools free for developers to a certain limit.
- aargh_aargh 5y ago
  Wait, why not optipng [1], pngcrush [2] or any other of the handful of locally running lossless PNG optimizers [3]? [1] https://packages.debian.org/unstable/optipng [2] https://packages.debian.org/unstable/pngcrush [3] http://www.olegkikin.com/png_optimizers/
  - blowski 5y ago
    Do they do what the article is recommending? Genuine question, I don't know the answer.
    - TonyTrapp 5y ago
      They all optimize PNGs in different ways. For some files one tool is the best, for others another tool. There are even meta-tools like PNGGauntlet that just brute-force the compression with several of these tools (e.g. pngout and optipng) at the same time. That way, you can be relatively sure that your file will be close to being the smallest possible.
  - sumtechguy 5y ago
    If you are in the windows world I have been using this. https://sourceforge.net/projects/nikkhokkho/files/FileOptimizer/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/nikkhokkho/files/FileOptimi... Which contains all of those and just tries them all. Been meaning to pop it all out and make a bash script of them to automate some of my stuff on a cron job instead of using a GUI.
djxfade 5y ago
Kraken never answers any support requests, and I have experienced outages without any information. I would not rely on them.

blowski 5y ago

That looks perfect, except for it being a SaaS product with a minimum monthly spend. Is there a similar pay-as-you-go model, or ideally self-hosted?

karim79 5y ago
Good question - not at the moment, but we're evaluating the idea. Perhaps the answer would be to just make the build pipeline tools free for developers to a certain limit.
aargh_aargh 5y ago
Wait, why not optipng [1], pngcrush [2] or any other of the handful of locally running lossless PNG optimizers [3]? [1] https://packages.debian.org/unstable/optipng [2] https://packages.debian.org/unstable/pngcrush [3] http://www.olegkikin.com/png_optimizers/
- blowski 5y ago
  Do they do what the article is recommending? Genuine question, I don't know the answer.
  - TonyTrapp 5y ago
    They all optimize PNGs in different ways. For some files one tool is the best, for others another tool. There are even meta-tools like PNGGauntlet that just brute-force the compression with several of these tools (e.g. pngout and optipng) at the same time. That way, you can be relatively sure that your file will be close to being the smallest possible.
- sumtechguy 5y ago
  If you are in the windows world I have been using this. https://sourceforge.net/projects/nikkhokkho/files/FileOptimizer/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/nikkhokkho/files/FileOptimi... Which contains all of those and just tries them all. Been meaning to pop it all out and make a bash script of them to automate some of my stuff on a cron job instead of using a GUI.

djxfade 5y ago

Kraken never answers any support requests, and I have experienced outages without any information. I would not rely on them.