Gathering detailed insights and metrics for pngquant-bin
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for pngquant-bin
pngquant bin-wrapper that makes it seamlessly available as a local dependency
Installations
npm install pngquant-binDeveloper Guide
BETA
Typescript
No
Module System
ESM
Min. Node Version
>=18
Node Version
20.12.2
NPM Version
10.6.0
Score
78.8
Supply Chain
73.7
Quality
70.1
Maintenance
50
Vulnerability
80.9
License
Releases
8
Languages
1
JavaScript
JavaScript (100%)
Developer
Download Statistics
Total Downloads
0
Last Day
0
Last Week
0
Last Month
0
Last Year
0
GitHub Statistics
NOASSERTION License
117 Stars
178 Commits
93 Forks
10 Watchers
3 Branches
12 Contributors
Updated on May 02, 2025
Maintainers
6
Package Meta Information
Latest Version
9.0.0
Package Id
pngquant-bin@9.0.0
Unpacked Size
108.32 kB
Size
85.60 kB
File Count
8
NPM Version
10.6.0
Node Version
20.12.2
Published on
May 05, 2024
Total Downloads
Cumulative downloads
Total Downloads
NaN
Last Day
0%
NaN
Compared to previous day
Last Week
0%
NaN
Compared to previous week
Last Month
0%
NaN
Compared to previous month
Last Year
0%
NaN
Compared to previous year
Weekly Downloads
Monthly Downloads
Yearly Downloads
Dependencies
3
Dev Dependencies
5
pngquant-bin 
pngquantis a PNG compressor that significantly reduces file sizes by converting images to a more efficient 8-bit PNG format
You probably want imagemin-pngquant instead.
Install
1npm install pngquant-bin
Make sure you have the correct version of libimagequant.
1# via Homebrew for macOS 2brew install libimagequant 3 4# via apt-get for Debian distributions 5sudo apt-get install libimagequant-dev
Usage
1import {execFile} from 'node:child_process'; 2import pngquant from 'pngquant-bin'; 3 4execFile(pngquant, ['-o', 'output.png', 'input.png'], error => { 5 console.log('Image minified!'); 6});
CLI
1npm install --global pngquant-bin
1pngquant --help
Updating pre-compiled binaries
The Linux binaries are statically linked so they should work on all Linux distributions. To recompile them:
sudo apt-get install libpng-dev./configure CFLAGS=-static && make && cp pngquant pngquant-64- Repeat the above commands, but in a 32-bin docker container started with: docker run -ti -v
pwd:/source i386/debian:9.3 bash
No vulnerabilities found.
Reason
no dangerous workflow patterns detected
Reason
0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Reason
license file detected
Details
- Info: project has a license file: license:0
- Warn: project license file does not contain an FSF or OSI license.
Reason
binaries present in source code
Details
- Warn: binary detected: vendor/freebsd/x64/pngquant:1
- Warn: binary detected: vendor/linux/x64/pngquant:1
- Warn: binary detected: vendor/linux/x86/pngquant:1
- Warn: binary detected: vendor/macos/pngquant:1
- Warn: binary detected: vendor/win/pngquant.exe:1
Reason
Found 3/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
Reason
0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
Reason
detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
Details
- Warn: no topLevel permission defined: .github/workflows/test.yml:1
- Info: no jobLevel write permissions found
Reason
no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
Reason
dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
Details
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/test.yml:19: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/imagemin/pngquant-bin/test.yml/main?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/test.yml:24: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/imagemin/pngquant-bin/test.yml/main?enable=pin
- Warn: npmCommand not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/test.yml:28
- Info: 0 out of 2 GitHub-owned GitHubAction dependencies pinned
- Info: 0 out of 1 npmCommand dependencies pinned
Reason
security policy file not detected
Details
- Warn: no security policy file detected
- Warn: no security file to analyze
- Warn: no security file to analyze
- Warn: no security file to analyze
Reason
project is not fuzzed
Details
- Warn: no fuzzer integrations found
Reason
branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
Details
- Warn: branch protection not enabled for branch 'main'
Reason
SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
Details
- Warn: 0 commits out of 10 are checked with a SAST tool
Score
3
/10
Last Scanned on 2025-07-07
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