Countdown Generator

Example URL

/api/countdown.gif?target=2026-12-31T23:59:59Z&label=Launch&bg=%23101828&color=%23ffffff&accent=%2300d4ff

About

Each request renders an animated GIF that counts down to a target date or timestamp. The animation contains up to 60 frames at one frame per second, looping within the current minute bucket. Identical requests in the same minute are served from an in-memory cache on warm instances.

Use optimize=balanced for a good default, optimize=speed when response time matters most, or optimize=quality when smoother text is more important than file size.

Query parameters

• target, date, or to — ISO date or Unix timestamp (required)
• label — short label above the countdown (default: Countdown)
• w / h — width and height in pixels (default: 600 × 240)
• bg, color, accent, muted — CSS colours
• font — DejaVu Sans, Franklin Gothic Std, Source Sans Pro, or Toyota Type
• fontSize — countdown font size in pixels
• unitLabels — localised day/hour/minute/second labels
• frames — animation length in seconds, 2–60 (default: 60)
• optimize — balanced, speed, or quality
• cache — Cache-Control max-age in seconds (default: 30)

Team

Maintained by the Online team at Louwman ICT Services. Questions or feedback? Contact online@louwmanictservices.nl.

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