Compress images before upload

[igeligel]

Description

Caring about file size on internet pages it might be a good idea to compress images lossless when uploading them to Wikimedia Commons. As described on this Google site: https://web.dev/use-imagemin-to-compress-images it is fine to compress images losslessly.

Current State

Images are not uploaded compressed.

Expected State

Images should be uploaded compressed. This can be achieved with imagemin (https://github.com/imagemin/) for example. I do not know if there is a Python solution/wrapper which could be applied here.

The process would be:

1. Selection of files
2. Retrieve files from Google Drive
3. Compressing of images
4. Upload to Wikimedia Commons

[abbasidaniyal]

I would like to take this issue up. Should I try to strip the metadata or compress the image itself?

[NdibeRaymond]

Hello, I am an outreachy aspirant and I would love to take up this task @tonythomas01

[abbasidaniyal]

@tonythomas01 I was planning to use picopt package. It is similar to imagemin. Or else, I can use Pillow to reduce the quality of the image. Which approach should I take?