A simple api to handle file compression, using ffmpeg.

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Features
• Quick Start
• Testing

This a simple API to handle file compression, using fastapi to handle the requests and ffmpeg to compress the files. The file must be sended as form-data.

• Video compression

create a virtualenv and install the requirements:

$ python3 -m venv venv 
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ source ./venv/bin/activate

run the app:

$ python main.py

app will be served by uvicorn in local, but for production is better use gunicorn.

to compression works, you'll need to install ffmpeg in your machine.

def compress_video(file):
    res = requests.post('http://127.0.0.1:8000/compress_form_data_video', data={'filename': file.filename, 'ext': file.filename.split('.')[-1]}, files={'file': file})
    
    if res.status_code >= 200 and res.status_code < 300:
       return res.content
    raise Exception('Cannot compress video')