Lib.rs

Picsum Downloader

Use Case

Basically every project where you might need some kind of placeholder images whether to upload while testing or for basically anything else. You need a bunch of images of different sizes, probably of different resolutions. Well, there is a very cool application called https://picsum.photos which does exactly that. This tool just helps you download those images to your local computer and you can test stuff locally.

Installation

Go to the release page and download the executable as per your operating system/cpu architecture. For now, please build from source. Github actions need to be updated for linux and macos builds.

Build from source

To build from source, you must have rustc and cargo available on your machine. If you don't have it installed, check Rustup Docs to get started.

Then, follow the steps below:

• git clone https://github.com/aashan10/picsum.git
• cd picsum && cargo build -r

After that, you'll have a release binary inside <project-dir>/target/release/picsum (<project-dir>/target/release/picsum.exe on windows).

On unix based systems, you can move the generated binary to /usr/local/bin or set up appropriate PATH environment variable in order to run the picsum command.

Usage

picsum --help
Usage: picsum [<arg> <value>]
  --count <number>        Number of images to download
                              default: 50
  --width <number>        Width of image to be downloaded
                              default: 1920
  --height <number>       Height of image to be downloaded
                              default: 1080
  --dir <directory>       Directory to be used to save downloaded files
                              default: ~/Downloads
  --threads <number>      Allowed number of threads to be used for parallel downloads
                              default: 4
  --help                  Display this help message

Disclaimer

The downloaded images are not covered by copyright as they are generated by an external service. This is merely a tool for gathering the contents which is already available on the internet. The author is not legally bound to any of the images downloaded via this tool.