Bash Shell Script To Bulk Optimize Images With TinyPNG API

This is a bash shell script that will optimize and compresses all JPG, JPEG, and PNG images in a local directory with the TinyPNG API. It will optimize images with these extensions: .png, .PNG, .jpg, .JPG, .jpeg, and .JPEG.

The script will not modify or delete your existing images. It will simply create an optimized copy of all the images in the directory that you specify, and it will place the optimized images in a new directory. The new directory will be named the same as the specified directory, but with the added suffix, “_tiny”. So, if you want to optimize a folder of images named “uploads”, the new folder of optimized images will be named “uploads_tiny”.

The point being that your original folder of images remains intact, with images in their original size. You’ll simply have a new folder of optimized images.

Required: you must have your TinyPNG API key.

NOTE: This script uses the TinyPNG API, and they allow a maximum of 500 images to be optimized per month, unless you have signed up with them to pay for optimizing extra images. Obviously, this script will only optimize the maximum number of images allowed per month by your TinyPNG API key.

1. In the script (the script is below), on line 2, replace YOUR_API_KEY with your own TinyPNG API key. (Keep that key secret!)
2. Copy the script and use any text editor to paste the script into a new file. Save the file with the name tinypng.sh
3. Place the script in the same directory as the directory of images that you want to optimize. So, if the folder that you want to optimize with TinyPNG is called “uploads” and it’s in your “Documents” folder, then you should place the tinypng.sh script in the “Documents” folder.

   It doesn’t matter if other folders or files exist there, they’ll be ignored.

4. To optimize the images, run the script. To run the script, you have to specify the name of the folder of images that you want optimized.

   First, open a terminal and navigate to the directory of the script. In this example, it’s the Documents folder:

   cd Documents 

   Run the script, specifying the name of the folder of images that you want to optimize. In this example, the folder of images is called “uploads”:

   ./tinypng.sh uploads 

   As another example, you could optimize only a sub-directory, like this:

   ./tinypng.sh uploads/subdir 

   If all goes well, you will end up with a new folder named, “uploads_tiny” (or “subdir_tiny” if you used the latter example) which contains all of the images optimized with TinyPNG. When the script is complete, it will give you a summary that tells how many files are in the original folder and how many files are in the new folder. That way, you can be sure that all the images were optimized. The end of the script also tells you the total size of both folders so you can see how much disk space you save by using TinyPNG API to optimize your images.

The Script

#!/bin/bash
TINYAPIKEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

# Make sure source dir is supplied
if [ -z "$1" ]
	then
	echo "Missing argument. Supply the source directory containing the images to be optimized. Usage: ./tiny.sh <source_dir>"
	exit 1
fi

INDIR=$1

# Make sure source dir exists
if [ ! -d "$INDIR" ]; then
	echo ""$INDIR" directory not found. Supply the source directory containing the images to be optimized. Source directory should be relative to location of this script. Usage: ./tiny.sh <source_dir>"
	exit 1
fi

DIRNAME=${INDIR##*/}
OUTDIRNAME="${DIRNAME}_tiny"
OUTDIR="`pwd`/$OUTDIRNAME"

# Make sure output dir does not already exist with files.
# If dir exists but empty, it's ok, we proceed.
if find "$OUTDIRNAME" -mindepth 1 -print -quit | grep -q .; then
	echo "Output directory ($OUTDIRNAME) already exists. Exiting without optimizing images."
	exit 1
fi

# Create output dir if it does not already exist
if [ ! -d "$OUTDIRNAME" ]; then
	echo "Creating output dir "$OUTDIRNAME"..."
	mkdir $OUTDIRNAME	
fi

# Begin optimizing images
echo "Optimizing images..."
cd $INDIR
shopt -s nullglob
for file in *.png *.PNG *.jpg *.JPG *.jpeg *.JPEG
do
	Cfile=`curl https://api.tinify.com/shrink --user api:$TINYAPIKEY --data-binary @"${file}" --dump-header /dev/stdout --silent | grep Location | awk '{print $2 }'`
	Cfile=${Cfile// }
	Cfile=`echo -n "$Cfile"| sed s/.$//`
	curl ${Cfile} -o "${OUTDIR}/${file}" --silent
done

# Gather stats
echo "Gathering stats..."
INDIR_SIZE="$(du -h)"
INDIR_FILE_COUNT="$(ls | wc -l)"
cd $OUTDIR
OUTDIR_SIZE="$(du -h)"
OUTDIR_FILE_COUNT="$(ls | wc -l)"
echo -e "Finished.rnOriginal directory ($INDIR) has $INDIR_FILE_COUNT files; total size $INDIR_SIZErnTinified directory ($OUTDIRNAME) has $OUTDIR_FILE_COUNT files; total size $OUTDIR_SIZE"