`soim`: Social image generator CLI

In my last post on Social Image generation, I talked about how I built a site which can be used to automate social image generation. Well, I just built a CLI for it! Introducing soim.

SiddharthShyniben / soim

Social Image generator

`soim`

Name: `soim`: Social image generator CLI
Rating: 1.3 (3065 reviews)
Author: siddharthshyniben

This image was made by running soim -t "This is some sample output of <b><code>soim</code></b>" -T "social, images, generator" -i "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AnandChowdhary/undrawcdn/master/illustrations/images.svg" -c "Made by @SiddharthShyniben" -p "cover.png"

soim is a CLI tool for generating social images. Given data, soim uses Puppeteer to screenshot a page.

soim can also be used as a library. The exported generateImage function takes an object as options, and the options are the same as the CLI options.

Install

# locally
~$ npm i soim

# globally (for CLI)
~$ npm i -g soim
~$ soim -t ...

CLI options

-t, --text: The main text.
-T, --tags: Comma separated list of tags, shown at the top of the image
-p, --path: The place to write the image
-l, --link: Custom link where the social image template lives. Useful if you want to design a custom template. See…

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It's a small CLI tool to generate social images. Just run soim --text Something --caption something ... and get an image!

It uses puppeteer under the hood to generate images. I'll write a post on it someday.

Hope you like it!