imageio
Read/write images and video in all major formats with scientific data support.
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How imageio is used
imageio is a dependency in 6 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 186 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Pillow (238 projects). Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (93.5%), Pillow (89.2%), pandas (88.7%).
imageio popularity over time
Gid Score 58: downloads 85, use in agent projects 60, GitHub stars 21, downloads trend 55 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with imageio
| NumPy | 93.5% of imageio projects · 16.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Pillow | 89.2% of imageio projects · 23.3× more than average |
| pandas | 88.7% of imageio projects · 20.6× more than average |
| Matplotlib | 86.0% of imageio projects · 32.0× more than average |
| Click | 84.9% of imageio projects · 34.0× more than average |
| Jinja2 | 83.3% of imageio projects · 38.3× more than average |
| NetworkX | 82.3% of imageio projects · 82.4× more than average |
| attrs | 81.7% of imageio projects · 118.0× more than average |
From all 186 projects in our scan that use imageio, including the dependency samples.
How imageio is funded
Install
| Package | pip install imageio |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (186) |
| Example projects | Paper2Poster/Paper2Poster, rsanshierli/EasyBert, filliptm/ComfyUI_Fill-Nodes, instavm/open-skills, YuhangChen1/Paper2All |
Alternatives to imageio
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside imageio are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pillow pypi Python imaging library for image processing, manipulation and conversion. |
82 | 238 (14.7%) | 137M | 13.9K | MIT-CMU |
| OpenCV Python pypi Python bindings for OpenCV computer vision library for image/video processing. |
65 | 45 (2.8%) | 8M | 5,429 | Apache-2.0 |
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