# pngcrush-bin ![GitHub Actions Status](https://github.com/imagemin/pngcrush-bin/workflows/test/badge.svg?branch=main)

> [pngcrush](https://pmt.sourceforge.io/pngcrush/) is an optimizer which main purpose is to reduce the size of the PNG IDAT datastream by trying various compression levels an PNG filter methods

You probably want [`imagemin-pngcrush`](https://github.com/imagemin/imagemin-pngcrush) instead.


## Install

```
$ npm install --save pngcrush-bin
```


## Usage

```js
import {execFile} from 'node:child_process';
import pngcrush from 'pngcrush-bin';

execFile(pngcrush, ['-reduce', '-brute', 'input.png', 'output.png'], error => {
	console.log('Image minified');
});
```


## CLI

```
$ npm install --global pngcrush-bin
```

```
$ pngcrush --help
```


## License

MIT © [Imagemin](https://github.com/imagemin)