This tool allow you to produce an html index of a directory containing pictures (png, [jJ][pP][gG], .gif still to be added ), producing an index that you can filter with case insensitive RegEx. The original idea was to make things easier when one of your script output hundreds of plots and you want to inspect them. Note that .txt files are also included to the indexing.
This filter is applied on the picture filename and subdirectory name if any.
You can use the following options:

• -R to specify a file containing a description of the directory. This will produce a link "Folder details" at the right of the header that will toggle the description.
• -r will produce the index recusively and include all subfolders containing picture or .txt file
• NEW -t will produce pre-build filter tags by splitting the filenames on '_'-symbol and taking words appearing at least once but not common to all filenames

A click on a picture will fire a zoom, click again to unzoom.
The command line usage is:

Usage: createshowplots.py [options] -d directory

Options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -d REP, --dir=REP  Picture folder (ending with /)
  -r                 recursive mode
  -t                 add tags by splitting filenames on '_'
  -R README          use a directory description file

the README file is considered to be in the directory specified with -d, so there is no need to specify again the directory for it.
I personnaly added to my bashrc an alias to the python file (allowed to be executed) associated to the "createshowplots" command

Requirements

It's a python tool using some bash commands. This require python with the following libraries:

• commands
• re
• os
• sys
• optparse

For the filter page to fully work, you'll need an internet connection (for your browser to load the jquery).

Working Demo

You can find a working DEMO here that was produced with the command:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ createshowplots -R README -t -r -d picturestest/
	

The file "README" is located in the picturestest folder and contain the description of the folder.
The output in the terminal is

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ createshowplots -R README -t -r -d picturestest/
	index.html created in picturestest/
	Including the following folder(s):
		picturestest/
		picturestest/subdirectory
	

Notice the "Folder details" in the header to toggle the details.

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