OG Image Generator CLI Tool

Description

Create an OG image for an article on your website with this CLI tool.

Note: The code is pretty messy and needs to be refactored.

Pre-requisites

• Go 1.18
• Background Image - 1200 X 630 pixels
• Icon Image - 48 X 48 pixels

Usage

Make sure that you have the Background Image (file named background.png) and Icon Image (file names icon.png) in the same directory as the executable.

Run the following command:

go run . --title="<TITLE HERE>" --description="<DESCRIPTION HERE>" --minutes=7 --author="<AUTHOR NAME HERE>" --website="<WEBSITE URL HERE>" --output="<OUTPUT FILE NAME/PATH HERE>"

Or you can build the executable and run it:

go build .
./og-generator --title="<TITLE HERE>" --description="<DESCRIPTION HERE>" --minutes=7 --author="<AUTHOR NAME HERE>" --website="<WEBSITE URL HERE>" --output="<OUTPUT FILE NAME/PATH HERE>"

Example

Run

./og-generator --title="Differences Between SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS" --description="In this article, I will be going through the three big services used to deploy software applications and their required components. I will also briefly explain the differences between them and which method you should use to deploy your own software application." --minutes=7 --author="Hazem Hadi" --website="https://hazemhadi.com"

Output:

Credits

Heavily relies on the below referenced article: https://pace.dev/blog/2020/03/02/dynamically-generate-social-images-in-golang-by-mat-ryer.html