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Compression API

Lossless or lossy compression of existing formats

Compress images, videos, and audio by submitting a file with the same `from` and `to` format. The Convert API will detect compression requests automatically and apply best-fit codecs or quality settings.

Request Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
filebinaryYesThe source file to compress.
tostringYesSame format as the input (e.g. "mp4" to compress an MP4 video).

Code Examples

CURL

curl -X POST https://convertfleet.com/api/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@input.pdf" \
  -F "to=docx" \
  -o output.docx

JS

const axios = require('axios');
const fs = require('fs');
const FormData = require('form-data');

const form = new FormData();
form.append('file', fs.createReadStream('input.pdf'));
form.append('to', 'docx');

const res = await axios.post('https://convertfleet.com/api/convert', form, {
  headers: { ...form.getHeaders(), 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' },
  responseType: 'arraybuffer',
});
fs.writeFileSync('output.docx', res.data);

PYTHON

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://convertfleet.com/api/convert",
    files={"file": open("input.pdf", "rb")},
    data={"to": "docx"},
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}
)
open("output.docx", "wb").write(res.content)

Related Resources

Convert File API

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