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We released a new version of the remove.bg CLI. You can download it here: https://github.com/remove-bg/remove-bg-cli The go version of our CLI is no longer maintained nor supported.

You can download latest stable release (Windows, Mac, and Linux supported)

brew install remove-bg/homebrew-tap/removebg

Download the .deb or .rpm from the releases page and install with dpkg -i and rpm -i.

For the latest deb package supporting x86-64 you can also run:

curl -LO $(curl https://api.github.com/repos/remove-bg/go/releases/latest | grep -o "https://github.com/remove-bg/go/releases/download/.*linux_amd64.deb")
sudo dpkg -i removebg*.deb

removebg [options] <file>...

To process images you'll need your remove.bg API key.

To use the API key for all requests you can export the following environment variable in your shell profile (e.g. ~/.bashrc / ~/.zshrc):

export REMOVE_BG_API_KEY=xyz

Alternatively you can specify the API key per command:

removebg --api-key xyz images/image1.jpg

If you want to remove the background from all the PNG and JPG images in a directory, and save the transparent images in the same directory:

removebg images/*.{png,jpg}

Given the following input:

images/
├── dog.jpg
└── cat.png

The result would be:

images/
├── dog.jpg
├── cat.png
├── dog-removebg.png
└── cat-removebg.png

If you want to remove the background from all the PNG and JPG images in a directory, and save the transparent images in a different directory:

mkdir processed
removebg --output-directory processed originals/*.{png,jpg}

Given the following input:

originals/
├── dog.jpg
└── cat.png

The result would be:

originals/
├── dog.jpg
└── cat.png

processed/
├── dog.png
└── cat.png

• --api-key or REMOVE_BG_API_KEY environment variable (required).

• --output-directory (optional) - The output directory for processed images.

• --reprocess-existing - Images which have already been processed are skipped by default to save credits. Specify this flag to force reprocessing.

• --confirm-batch-over (default 50) - Prompt for confirmation before processing batches over this size. Specify -1 to disable this safeguard.

Please see the API documentation for further details.

• --size (default auto)
• --type
• --channels
• --bg-color
• --format (default: png)
• --extra-api-options for forwarding any unlisted/new options to the API
  • Formatted as a URI encoded string (= between key/value, delimited with &)
  • e.g. --extra-api-options 'crop=true&add_shadow=true'

# Producing a JPG with a grey background at the path: processed/subject.jpg
removebg subject.jpg --format jpg --bg-color 7a7a7a --output-directory processed

# Producing a large transparent PNG image up to 25 megapixels
removebg large.jpg --size full --format png

# Processing a car image with additional API options
removebg car.jpg --type car --extra-api-options 'add_shadow=true&semitransparency=true'

Prerequisites:

• go 1.14
• dep

Getting started:

git clone git@github.com:remove-bg/go.git $GOPATH/github.com/remove-bg/go
cd $GOPATH/github.com/remove-bg/go
bin/setup
bin/test

To build & try out locally:

go build -o removebg main.go
./removebg --help

• Install goreleaser
• Create a Github token with repo access
• Run the release script:

GITHUB_TOKEN=xyz bin/release vX.Y.Z