Create Animated GIFs with GifShot JavaScript Library

Posted · Category: MIT License, Video

GifShot is a JavaScript library that can create animated GIFs from media streams, videos, or images. The client-side nature of the library makes it extremely portable and easy to integrate into almost any website.

Leverages cutting edge browser APIs including WebRTC, FileSystem, Video, Canvas, Web Workers, Typed Arrays, and Base 64 Encoding to support over 20 options. By harnessing the power of web workers, you get fast GIF creation that doesn’t block the UI. An image quantization algorithm is also used to reduce the number of colors required to represent the image.