88x31 sized GIFs

Chris Lomont

Dec 2022

Here is a collection of 7304 88x31 gifs that used to be common sized for banner ads and links on the early web. There are also 656 gif that a around this size.

Example:

I removed all that were binary exact files. I have not (yet?) removed ones that are actually the same image frames.

I have not hand checked to remove any NSFW images, even in the example screen shot.

Notes

I scraped several websites and obtained some github images. These are listed in scraper.py, a Python tool that scrapes websites and saves all images (renaming as needed).

Then cleaner.py cleans the files through a few steps. Read the code if you're interested.

Excellent gif explorer site http://www.matthewflickinger.com/lab/whatsinagif/gif_explorer.asp

Steps for code

1. Make venv: python -m venv venv
2. Activate venv (on windows, venv\Scripts\activate)
3. Install requirements: pip install -r requrements.txt
4. get images
   1. Scraping: python scraper.py
   2. git checkout the git repos listed in scraper.py
5. clean images: python cleaner.py PNG, JPG, and other files converted to gifs, sizes checked, basic checking done
6. Result images in cleaned and some subdirectories. images.html and offsize.html are all the images (too many to view in Chrome)