cPanel Images Converter doesn't support webp

[celiac101]

I am trying to batch covert images in a directory from jpg to webp, and it looks like I don't have this option using the cPanel Images Converter, as it only includes png, jpg, gif, bmp. Is there any module or update that I can add so that it will also handle webp files?

In a different thread this command was supposed to work, however I got errors when running it:

uapi --user=$MYUSER ImageManager convert_file image_file=/home/$MYUSER/public_html/cPanel%20logo.jpg type=webp

here is the error:

errors:
- "The system was unable to convert “/home/mydirectory/public_html/images2/filename.jpg”: convert: delegate failed `'cwebp' -quiet %Q '%i' -o '%o'' @ error/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1928.\n"


Any help would be appreciated.

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! We have some additional details on this here:

How to enable the webp image format for use with ImageMagick on cPanel

Introduction When using EA-PHP, (cPanel provided PHP) the ImageMagick PHP PECL extension uses the ImageMagick RPM package that is provided by the CentOS repository. This CentOS provided ImageMagi...

support.cpanel.net

Can you see if that is helpful for your situation?

 

[celiac101]

I just want to report that I found a much simpler solution to my problem. This one liner was all I needed:
yum install libwebp libwebp-tools -y