Color Thief won’t work …

Question

I’d like to use Color Thief, a script which allows you to extract the dominant color of an image.

Unfortunately I’m not able to get the code to work. I’d like the do

Answer 1

Murtnowski is correct in saying that the operation will fail if you run it against an image hosted on a different domain. If you are running it on an image hosted on your own domain, you just need to call getColor with an img element rather than a URL:

HTML

JS

var sourceImage = document.getElementById("myImg");
var colorThief = new ColorThief();
colorThief.getColor(sourceImage);