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+// you may not need all of these but they come up a lot
+import fs from "fs";
+import assert from "assert";
+import logging from '../lib/logging.js';
+import glob from "fast-glob";
+import path from "path";
+import { fabric } from "fabric";
+import { defer } from "../lib/api.js";
+import { createClient } from 'pexels';
+import { exec_i } from "../lib/builderator.js";
+import { pexels } from "../lib/config.js";
+import fetch from "node-fetch";
+import { playstart, playstop } from "../lib/testing.js";
+
+const log = logging.create(import.meta.url);
+
+export const description = "Gets a random image from Pexels and places the text on it."
+
+// your command uses the npm package commander's options format
+export const options = [
+  ["--background <filename>", "The file name to save the background image.", "background.jpg"],
+  ["--force", "Force overwriting the background.jpg temp file."],
+  ["--query <text>", "Query to give pexels for the image", "keyboard"],
+  ["--color <color>", "General color of the image"],
+  ["--text-color <color>", "The border around text.", "#fff"],
+  ["--font-family <name>", "Font to use", "Andale Mono"],
+  ["--font-size <pts>", "Font size to use", 140],
+  ["--blend-mode <mode>", "One of: none, multiply, screen, add, diff, subtract, darken, lighten, overlay, exclusion, tint", "screen"],
+  ["--pixelate <blocksize>", "Pixelate the image with blocksize (try 8)"],
+]
+
+// example of a positional argument, it's the 1st argument to main
+export const argument = ["text", "The message to put on the image."];
+
+// put required options in the required variable
+export const required = [
+  ["--output <string>", "Image file to save."],
+]
+
+// handy function for checking things are good and aborting
+const check = (test, fail_message) => {
+  if(!test) {
+    log.error(fail_message);
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+}
+
+export const main = async (title, opts) => {
+  const per_page = 50;
+
+  const ext_check = path.parse(opts.output).ext;
+  check(ext_check === "", `Do not add an extension to the output. You have ${ext_check}.`);
+
+  title = title.replaceAll("\\n", "\n");
+
+  if(opts.force || !fs.existsSync(opts.background)) {
+    const client = createClient(pexels.key);
+
+    const result = await client.photos.search({
+      query: opts.query,
+      per_page,
+      orientation: opts.orientation,
+      color: opts.color });
+
+    const randi = Math.floor(Math.random() * per_page);
+    const image = await client.photos.show({id: result.photos[randi].id});
+    const img_fetch = await fetch(image.src.large);
+    const img_data = await img_fetch.arrayBuffer();
+    await fs.writeFileSync(opts.background, new Uint8Array(img_data));
+  }
+
+  const background = path.join(process.cwd(), opts.background);
+
+  let canvas = new fabric.Canvas('c', { width: 1600, height: 900 })
+
+  let gradient = new fabric.Gradient({
+    type: 'linear',
+    gradientUnits: 'pixels', // or 'percentage'
+    coords: { x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: canvas.height, y2: canvas.width },
+    colorStops:[
+      { offset: 0, color: '#000' },
+      { offset: 1, color: '#fff'}
+    ]
+  })
+
+  let image_def = defer();
+
+  fabric.Image.fromURL(`file:///${background}`, img => {
+    let blur = new fabric.Image.filters.Blur({ blur: 0.05 });
+
+    img.set('scaleY', canvas.height / img.height);
+    img.set('scaleX', canvas.width / img.width);
+
+    if(opts.pixelate) {
+      let pixelate = new fabric.Image.filters.Pixelate({
+        blocksize: parseInt(opts.pixelate, 10)
+      });
+
+      img.filters.push(pixelate);
+    }
+
+    let blend = new fabric.Image.filters.BlendColor({
+     color: opts.color,
+     mode: opts.blendMode,
+    });
+
+    img.filters.push(blend);
+    img.filters.push(blur);
+    img.applyFilters();
+    image_def.resolve(img);
+  });
+
+  let bg_img = await image_def;
+
+  let rect = new fabric.Rect({
+     left: 0,
+     top: 0,
+     fill: opts.color,
+     width: canvas.width,
+     height: canvas.height,
+     opacity: 0.3
+  });
+
+  let text = new fabric.Text(title, {
+    fontFamily: opts.fontFamily,
+    fontSize: opts.fontSize,
+    strokeWidth: 5,
+    originX: "center",
+    originY: "center",
+    left: canvas.width / 2,
+    top: canvas.height / 2,
+    stroke: opts.textColor,
+    shadow: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 10px 10px 10px',
+  });
+
+  canvas.add(bg_img);
+  // canvas.add(rect);
+  canvas.add(text);
+
+  const output_svg = `${opts.output}.svg`;
+  const output_jpg = `${opts.output}.jpg`;
+  const output_png = `${opts.output}.png`;
+
+  fs.writeFileSync(output_svg, canvas.toSVG());
+
+  const {browser, context, p} = await playstart(`file:///${path.resolve(output_svg)}`);
+
+  await p.setViewportSize({
+    width: canvas.width,
+    height: canvas.height });
+
+  await p.screenshot({ path: output_png,
+    type: "png", omitBackground: true});
+
+  await playstop(browser, p);
+
+  exec_i(`convert ${output_png} -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -strip -quality 85 -interlace JPEG -colorspace RGB ${output_jpg}`);
+
+  // due to how async/await works it's just easier to manually exit with exit codes
+  process.exit(0);
+}