# shdwfruit/convkit

> CLI tool for converting files across 34 formats (video, audio, images, documents) via ffmpeg, ImageMagick, LibreOffice, pandoc and Typst, running fully offline.

- Magnitude: 0.7 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 19 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-12, 20:23–22:45 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-08-29 · Last push: 2026-10-12
- GitHub: https://github.com/shdwfruit/convkit · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/shdwfruit/convkit

## Useful for

- Convert a video to GIF or MP4 with one command without hand-tuning ffmpeg
- Compress a video under a size limit for uploads or attachments via --max-size
- Merge several images into one PDF or convert Markdown to PDF

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-12 (UTC), 20:23–22:45: 19 → 19 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- The repository is 44 days old and already has 19 stars.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Convkit – A command line tool for converting images/video/docs offline” — 8 points, 5 days ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @dorucioclea (314 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2
- Issues and pull requests: 25
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 2 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v0.5.1 (2026-10-12)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-13 … 2026-10-12: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 7, 1, 1, 1, 0

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Convkit – A command line tool for converting images/video/docs offline — 8 points, 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996408

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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