cwebp Command Examples

Compress an image file to a WebP file. More information: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/cwebp.

• Compress a WebP file with default settings (q = 75) to the [o]utput file:

cwebp {{path/to/image_file}} -o {{path/to/output.webp}}

• Compress a WebP file with the best [q]uality and largest file size:

cwebp {{path/to/image_file}} -o {{path/to/output.webp}} -q {{100}}

• Compress a WebP file with the worst [q]uality and smallest file size:

cwebp {{path/to/image_file}} -o {{path/to/output.webp}} -q {{0}}

• Compress a WebP file and apply resize to image:

cwebp {{path/to/image_file}} -o {{path/to/output.webp}} -resize {{width}} {{height}}

• Compress a WebP file and drop alpha channel information:

cwebp {{path/to/image_file}} -o {{path/to/output.webp}} -noalpha