https://github.com/ayastreb/bandwidth-hero-proxy

:zap: Proxy that compresses images to low-resolution
https://github.com/ayastreb/bandwidth-hero-proxy

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:zap: Proxy that compresses images to low-resolution

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ayastreb/bandwidth-hero-proxy
• Owner: ayastreb
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-05-24T08:48:31.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-10T16:08:42.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-15T07:40:39.132Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: compression, compression-proxy-server, data-compression, data-saving, express, heroku, proxy, sharp
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://bandwidth-hero.com/
• Size: 147 KB
• Stars: 188
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 149
• Open Issues: 30
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Bandwidth Hero Data Compression Service

[![NSP Status](https://nodesecurity.io/orgs/bandwidth-hero/projects/1f035cf0-00f2-43db-9bc0-8e39adb24642/badge)](https://nodesecurity.io/orgs/bandwidth-hero/projects/1f035cf0-00f2-43db-9bc0-8e39adb24642)

This data compression service is used by

[Bandwidth Hero](https://github.com/ayastreb/bandwidth-hero) browser extension. It compresses given

image to low-res [WebP](https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/) or JPEG image. Optionally it also

converts image to greyscale to save even more data.

It downloads original image and transforms it with [Sharp](https://github.com/lovell/sharp) on the

fly without saving images on disk.

This is **NOT** an anonymizing proxy — it downloads images on user's behalf, passing cookies

and user's IP address through to the origin host.

## Deployment

### Heroku

You can deploy this service to Heroku:

[![Deploy](https://www.herokucdn.com/deploy/button.svg)](https://heroku.com/deploy?template=https://github.com/ayastreb/bandwidth-hero-proxy)

[![Deploy to Heroku guide](http://img.youtube.com/vi/y3tkYEXAics/0.jpg)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3tkYEXAics)

### Self-hosted

Data compression service is a Node.js app which you can run on any server that supports Node.js.

Check out

[this guide](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-16-04)

on how to setup Node.js on Ubuntu.

DigitalOcean also provides an

[easy way](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/one-click-apps/node-js/) to setup a server ready to

host Node.js apps.