Hard choice

There are lots of photo gallery generators. But the main problem is to find someting simple and able to automagically crawl directories, find photos and generate thumbnails and the gallery itself.

I needed something with a bit of eye-candy (not too much though), without database and I didn't need the possibility to comment or anything else than viewing many photos.

After lots of tests, I've accidently found Sigal and I was happy.

Sigal ftw!

Sigal is a Python module which allows to generate a static photo gallery.
It's able to generate photo and video thumbnails, work ok and is really easy to use:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install sigal
sigal init
vim sigal.conf.py
sigal build

There is also a sigal serve command which allows you to quickly try out offline your photo gallery.

The project is available on github.
Sigal's website