What is Transloadit?
Transloadit is a scalable file uploading and encoding service designed to take the complexity out of handling files and videos. It provides easy-to-use RESTful APIs that developers can integrate into their applications to upload, encode, optimize and store media files without needing to set up their own encoding servers.
Some of the key features of Transloadit include:
- Auto-scaling infrastructure for encoding media files as needed
- Support for uploading images, audio, documents and video files
- Encoding media into formats like MP4, HLS, MP3, JPG, etc.
- Optimizing images and videos for size and performance
- Using industry standard codecs for outstanding quality
- Integration with popular cloud storage like Amazon S3, Google Cloud, Dropbox
- API wrappers available for languages like Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js
- Detailed reporting and analytics on all encoding operations
By handling the complex media processing through Transloadit's APIs, developers can focus on building their application instead of setting up their own encoding setup. The service scales seamlessly even with large workloads making it suitable for startups and enterprises alike.
FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Video Transcoder, Voukoder, Brightcove, Gifsicle, Koyeb, Filestack, Zencoder, Amazon Elastic Transcoder, Uploadcare, Blitline are some alternatives to Transloadit.