Comments on: How to Convert Images to WebP Format in Linux

By: Zakhar

Zakhar — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:37:31 +0000

All files are in a folder. # for f in ./*.png; do cwebp -q 80 $f -o ${f:0:`expr length "$f"`-3}webp; done

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:38:51 +0000

In reply to User.

@User

Many thanks for sharing this, we shall check it out.

By: User

User — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:37:09 +0000

Thanks, here is an attempt to automate the conversion for all images in a dir - https://github.com/slrslr/Miscellaneous-bash-scripts/blob/master/convertimagestowebp It would be good if they allow "cwebp -q 80 *" or "cwebp -q 80 ./ -o webps/" - similar.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 04 May 2020 16:49:09 +0000

In reply to Bicyu.

@Bicyu

Many thanks for sharing. We are grateful. We will check out kolourpaint.

By: Bicyu

Bicyu — Sat, 02 May 2020 06:31:31 +0000

Hello, obviously a lot of thought and time has gone into this post- and I know it is a little old now [2020] Thanks for that.

However, for those who want a quick and not so dirty Ubuntu solution, find kolourpaint in the Ubuntu software folder, install it and select your image of choice.

Open with kolourpaint and select “save as”.

In the file drop-down select jpeg or png if you want to go FROM webp format.

Bingo! Job has done, easy, quick, no command line.

Works t’other way round too if you want to convert your png etc files to webp.

Maybe kolourpaint is also available for other Linux distros as well or your existing paint, image app might even do the same?

I hope this helps some people.
Bicyu.