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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator

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2021-10-15

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A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a custom conversion is sometimes requested for an image to be set as webp.

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You could download one of the many native apps from the Mac App Store to do this for you - but why not create your own script and run it with a simple right-click directly inside Finder? Let’s do just that!

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Basic requirements

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Important!: As of this time of writing, the official libwebp package release is libwebp-1.2.1-mac-10.15. If this has been updated since then, change the command below to match that of the proper release version.

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  1. First you will need to download the libwebp package to your Downloads folder: developers.google.com/speed/webp/download -
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Creating our custom Automator script

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  1. Open the macOS Automator from the Applications folder

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  2. Select Quick Option from the first prompt

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  3. Set “Workflow receives current” to image files

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  4. Set the label “in” to Finder

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  5. From the left pane, select “Library > Utilities”

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  6. From the presented choices in the next pane, drag and drop Run Shell Script into the far right pane

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  7. Set the area “Pass input” to as arguments

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  8. Enter the following code below as your script and type ⌘-S to save (name it something like “Convert to webp”)

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for f in "$@"
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For visual reference, it should look something like this:

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And when right-clicking an image file in the Finder window, it should now give you the option to convert:

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Making edits to your script

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If you ever have the need to edit this script (for example, changing the default 85 quality parameter), you will need to navigate to your ~/Library/Services folder and open your custom webp Quick Action in the Automator application.

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Simple as that!

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Possible Hiccups

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I was contacted by the very helpful Kev Quirk about a minor problem he encountered while following this tutorial. When trying to run cwebp he received the following error message:

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cwebp cannot be opened because it's from an unverified developer
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Doing the next steps seemed to have fixed this issue for him:

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  1. Click on the “Open in Finder” in the error message prompt
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  3. You’ll then be prompted with a pop-up asking if you wish to execute
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After following these steps, the issue should be resolved.

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