Usage

$ ./make-gif-transparent.py -h
usage: make-gif-transparent.py [-h] input_filename [output_filename]

Automatically make GIF backgrounds transparent.

positional arguments:
  input_filename   Path to the GIF
  output_filename  Path to the output GIF (default: <input-basename>-transparent.gif)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --threshold THRESHOLD, -t THRESHOLD
                        The threshold for all RGB channels to determine which pixels belong to the background

Installation

You just need to have ImageMagick installed (convert command) and the Python packages installed listed in requirements.txt.

pip install -r requirements.txt