Optimize images without quality loss

Usage example

{
  "steps": {
    "optimized": {
      "robot": "/image/optimize",
      "use": ":original"
    }
  }
}

Parameters

• output_meta

  Record<string, boolean> | boolean

  Allows you to specify a set of metadata that is more expensive on CPU power to calculate, and thus is disabled by default to keep your Assemblies processing fast.

  For images, you can add "has_transparency": true in this object to extract if the image contains transparent parts and "dominant_colors": true to extract an array of hexadecimal color codes from the image.

  For videos, you can add the "colorspace: true" parameter to extract the colorspace of the output video.

  For audio, you can add "mean_volume": true to get a single value representing the mean average volume of the audio file.

  You can also set this to false to skip metadata extraction and speed up transcoding.

• result

  boolean (default: false)

  Whether the results of this Step should be present in the Assembly Status JSON

• queue

  "batch"

  Setting the queue to 'batch', manually downgrades the priority of jobs for this step to avoid consuming Priority job slots for jobs that don't need zero queue waiting times

• force_accept

  boolean (default: false)
  

    Force a Robot to accept a file type it would have ignored.
  

  By default Robots ignore files they are not familiar with. 🤖/video/encode, for example, will happily ignore input images.

  With the force_accept parameter set to true you can force Robots to accept all files thrown at them. This will typically lead to errors and should only be used for debugging or combatting edge cases.

• use

  string | Array<string> | Array<object> | object

  Specifies which Step(s) to use as input.

  • You can pick any names for Steps except ":original" (reserved for user uploads handled by Transloadit)
  • You can provide several Steps as input with arrays:
    

    {
      "use": [
        ":original",
        "encoded",
        "resized"
      ]
    }
    

  Tip

  That’s likely all you need to know about use, but you can view Advanced use cases.

• priority

  "compression-ratio" | "conversion-speed" (default: "conversion-speed")

  Provides different algorithms for better or worse compression for your images, but that run slower or faster. The value "conversion-speed" will result in an average compression ratio of 18%. "compression-ratio" will result in an average compression ratio of 31%.

• progressive

  boolean (default: false)

  Interlaces the image if set to true, which makes the result image load progressively in browsers. Instead of rendering the image from top to bottom, the browser will first show a low-res blurry version of the image which is then quickly replaced with the actual image as the data arrives. This greatly increases the user experience, but comes at a loss of about 10% of the file size reduction.

• preserve_meta_data

  boolean (default: true)

  Specifies if the image's metadata should be preserved during the optimization, or not. If it is not preserved, the file size is even further reduced. But be aware that this could strip a photographer's copyright information, which for obvious reasons can be frowned upon.

• fix_breaking_images

  boolean (default: true)

  If set to true this parameter tries to fix images that would otherwise make the underlying tool error out and thereby break your Assemblies. This can sometimes result in a larger file size, though.

Demos

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