Most JavaScript applications will handle file uploads at some point, built with simple but reliable functionality in mind. A file upload with Angular needs to be device compatible and secure in transferring user data. Unlike plug and play solutions, an Angular file upload API yields far more engagement on web forms and rewards users with […]
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Web developers who want to build an application using the ReactJS or write codes for building a website must consider the react file upload to ensure that users can upload any file they need [1]. Upload file in ReactJS is vital for the developer while creating his application. The truth is that there are several […]
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What are the constituents of uploading a file on React.js? You will inadvertently run into unexpected problems within a React framework during any file upload session. To commence a React file upload, simply install and configure the file uploader. Inspect the code for the App class, which encloses the following items: File state onFileChange onFileUpload formData […]
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Building a web application will require you to implement a JavaScript file uploader in your project. This file uploader does one primary task in your web application: to receive files from the user and store them on the server. JavaScript is one of the most used and popular languages for building applications on the web. […]
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An Optical Character Recognition – or simply OCR API is a valuable machine vision tool that allows you to recognize and retrieve text from images for further processing or storage. This is particularly useful when dealing with text scans and pictures, such as invoices, scanned forms, and signage. What Is an OCR API? We evaluate […]
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Processing Engine API by Filestack offers a lot of services that focus on file management. Without implementing your own logic, Filestack edits your uploaded files for you. This is where Filestack’s Processing Engine API comes in to handle all your files logic. Filestack also has a great OCR SDK. What is Filestack’s Processing Engine […]
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Drag and drop is a utility that helps you swiftly drag your files, texts, and photos into a document, copy links from any open browser tabs, and modify the layout of your mobile home screen. To do drag and drop file upload, tap while holding the item you want to move, then scroll and choose […]
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Flask combines the Werkzeug library and Jinja2 template engine to speed up development. Generally speaking, it’s considered an excellent Python framework for releasing web programs. In spite of having fewer resources than Django, Flask has a lower barrier to entry. It comes with a fast debugger to help you traverse through code and find the […]
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As a web developer or even as a regular web user, it is a fact of life that you will encounter occasional problems on the internet. While there is a solution for every problem, it can be frustrating when you can’t pinpoint the source. Web developers using Boto3 Upload File have frequently reported exactly the […]
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React.js is one of the most popular frameworks for building web applications. It helps developers construct components that are both SEO-compliant and extremely interactive. The capabilities of React.js also help with upkeep and productivity levels. The Material UI library’s integration into React.js projects makes them much easier to navigate and allows Material UI file upload. […]
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CURL upload file allows you to send data to a remote server. The command-line tool supports web forms integral to every web system. When you execute a CURL file upload [1] for any protocol (HTTP, FTP, SMTP, and others), you transfer data via URLs to and from a server. In this post, I’ll guide you […]
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One of the goals of most web developers is to make web surfing more enjoyable. One method to improve your user experience is allowing users to upload files with drag and drop file upload. Simply put the easier you make it for a user to upload content, the more likely they are to do so. […]
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What Is Flask? Flask is a Python-based lightweight or micro web framework for developing online applications. It comes with several essential tools and capabilities that make developing web applications a lot easier. One capability of Flask is that it supports the ability to do a Flask upload file from a client to a server and […]
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The World Wide Web allows us to move massive amounts of data between networked computers. It is fundamentally a data-creating and data-sharing community. Images, movies, and audio files are some typical human-interpretable formats for this data. Knowing everything about Django file upload makes data sharing easier. Users have become so accustomed to file sharing that […]
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cURL has a lot of power, but most of it is concealed behind its deliberate non-verbosity and its sophisticated multiple flags, configurations, and options. Once you understand it, however, it is easy to see that cURL has a wide range of powerful features. So let’s explore the best-kept secrets about the cURL upload file. In […]
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Postman is a REST client tool for testing and deploying API services in a controlled workspace. Postman simplifies collaboration at each step of the API lifecycle. It also helps you manage an API repository down to its specifications, documentation, and various test cases. Postman intelligent tools gather valuable insights on your API processes, In addition, […]
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Cybercrime has risen significantly in the past few years, threatening not only your users’ data, but your platform’s stability as a whole. One particularly effective and damaging aspect of cybercrime is phishing, or the practice of sending deceptive messages designed to trick the recipient into revealing sensitive or personally identifying information. In 2020, the FBI’s […]
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In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to create your own YouTube-like app. The final application will allow users to upload and share videos to the public. We will use React for the client side, Node.js for the server side, and Filestack to upload and transcode the videos. Although we’re highlighting YouTube-like apps, this […]
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Zip files are ubiquitous files on the net. We use them frequently when sending an e-mail or downloading a program. What is a zip file? It’s an archive format which contains one or several files in a compressed form in order to reduce the overall size of the file. This is not a new technology. […]
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Resizing images like PNGs, JPGs or GIFs is one of the most common things we have to do as developers. You may need to optimize the layout of a website or application, reduce the size of your images to increase page performance or even just get the alignment of that reaction meme you’re playing […]
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Filestack has many tutorials on how to use Filestack to upload and process images. There are Instagram-like apps, YouTube-like apps, Soundcloud-like apps and more with JavaScript and Filestack’s API. Typically, we go into great detail on the tech behind the app — showing step-by-step how to build out different elements of the app from scratch. […]
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Cloud computing has allowed business to completely revolutionize how they manage their computing and storage resources, changing how they handle their IT and infrastructure costs. The big three vendors at this point for cloud storage are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft with its Azure platform and of course Google with Google Cloud Services (GCS). Each […]
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Google Drive is an extremely popular platform for creating, editing, and storing documents. Over 800 million users keep more than 2 trillion files on Google Drive. Whether your application uploads resumes, blog posts, slide shows, or other documents, you can benefit from integrating the Google Drive API to allow your users to upload directly from […]
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As you create any application and include a file uploader, it is important to keep in mind that every time a visitor leaves your application to find the right photo, you run the risk that he or she will get distracted and never return. You can increase your conversion rate by integrating the Google Image […]
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Google Photos has been in hyper growth mode since its transformation from Picasa, currently boosting more than 500 million monthly users. With sharing capabilities and added intelligence, Google Photos strives to make camera rolls obsolete. As a developer building a file uploader, you can stay ahead of the curve by allowing your users to upload […]
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Why Should You Compress Images for Your Website? Optimizing images to increase website speed is crucial for improving your user experience and increasing your website conversion rates. Studies by Alkamai and Gomez show that… The average online shopper expects your pages to load in two seconds or less. After three seconds, up to 40% of […]
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Deep learning has gone from sci-fi concept to industry buzzword within only a matter of years. What started as proof-of-concepts and enhanced facial recognition software quickly ballooned into state-of-the-art image and speech recognition, video analysis, behavioral predictions and untold other successes, where the goal was specific enough and the dataset large enough to benefit from […]
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Welcome Back! Hello, and welcome back to the Filestack Tutorial For Beginners. If you have not seen the first half then check it out here. Otherwise, let’s keep making progress on our watermarking application. Perform a Transformation: Watermark Working with Uploaded Files: The Filestack Handle At this point you are probably wondering: “Okay, I understand […]
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Filestack provides a robust and scalable solution for content upload and file delivery. We are used for websites, digital services, enterprise software and endless other projects across the industry. Our File Picker is easily integrated into any website, and we have a growing list of SDKs for use in projects of various languages, including plugins […]
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The purpose of this two part tutorial is to provide enough instruction, and explanation on Filestack’s Javascript API that someone inexperienced with either Filestack or Javascript can leave with a grasp on what we do, and how we do it. The first part will focus on basic HTML and Javascript, and implementing file uploads, and […]
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In my last few articles we discussed several features that make Filestack’s API such a big game changer in your development process. We compared Filestack pick function with a more traditional approach to handle files upload in the article “Comparing Node & JQuery File Upload vs Filestack” showing that it allows for fast development and no hassle when […]
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On March 14, LinkedIn released Photo Filters and Editing for profile pictures, along with guidelines on how to get noticed with a “professional” photo (read more here). The fact is, profile pictures are important, and you don’t always need a professional headshot to look good. Often, a selfie with some nifty filters will do the […]
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Taking screenshots is common for those of us who live on our phones and laptops. Sometimes we want to share glimpses of funny conversations with friends, other times, in the office for example, we take screenshots to quickly share unexpected results on our screens. Screenshots are so common that nowadays the majority of our devices offer a specific key […]
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I have always been amazed by the upscale processes shown in action movies. Typically, a satellite photo captures the assumed location of the villain and the picture is infinitely zoomed while preserving a great amount of details. This works pretty well in fictional stories, but when you try to enlarge an image in real life, the result […]
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With social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter becoming staples in our lives, we regularly share moments in our lives through casual images on the web. Think about selfies: The simple term for a self-portrait photograph is a very common snapshot that invaded Facebook, Instagram and Twitter whose popularity is never decreasing. The fact […]
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One of the most undesirable results of taking photos is the red-eye effect. In photography the red-eye effect occurs when a camera captures light reflecting from the retina of the subject’s eyes or when a flash is used at night and in dim lighting. This is a pretty common effect that all of us experienced at least once […]
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Only a few years after its name was coined, deep learning found itself at the forefront of the digital zeitgeist. Over the course of the past two decades, online services evolved into large-scale cloud platforms, while popular libraries like Tensorflow, Torch and Theano later made machine learning integration far simpler and more efficient. Algorithms deemed intractable […]
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Editing images is a routine component of web development. As developers, we often have to resize or crop an image to fit a certain space. We may need to upscale an image to improve the resolution on a screen size, or compress an image to save bandwidth and reduce load time. Furthermore, social sites like […]
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ASCII art is a beautiful thing to a geek. For fun, we built a transformation to convert any image into an HTML file of ASCII code, and since then, we’ve had users create twitter bots and stores to print ASCII art posters. When using Filestack’s API, the resulting ASCII art looks like this: If you […]
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In recent years, we have seen an exponential increase in the number of images displayed online. Each of the 2 billion people with a smartphone is an amateur photographer, taking and sharing images regularly. Additionally, as the the capabilities of smartphone cameras continue to advance, file sizes are also trending larger. As a result, we are seeing scores of large images circulate […]
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With new File Picker V3, file uploading integration in your codebase has never been easier. We published the client in the npm registry so you can now say “goodbye” to the script tag within your html files when using Node. With a Node application, you can simply retrieve and download the script by running npm command `install`: npm […]
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Filestack has recently launched our File Picker V3 with a minimalistic design, in-app image transformations, and an even faster file uploading API. In case you missed it, you can read more about the new features and improvements in our article Filestack Launches File Picker V3. The new UI is what everyone needs in a modern website. […]
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Are you deciding between MaxCDN and Fastly for your CDN? This post details Filestack’s own notes and research from our hunt to find the best CDN to partner with to deliver billions of files for our end users around the world. We presently deliver 186 TB of data with 1.7 billion requests monthly, so picking […]
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If you’ve ever encountered a slow loading webpage, you know exactly how wait time impacts user experience. According to Kissmetrics, a 4 second wait time leads to a 25% abandonment rate. The average Internet user expects a page to load in 2 seconds or less, and is not happy to wait longer than that. These […]
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Photo filters are everywhere on the internet. But do they really affect engagement? Yes. A lot. At least according to an interesting 2015 study from the team at Yahoo Labs and Georgia Tech called Why We Filter Our Photos and How It Impacts Engagement (PDF) which looked at the use of photo filters in the Flickr community. Based […]
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You might remember the case of the monkey selfie. In 2011, a nature photographer named David Slater was in Indonesia to photograph some Celebes crested macaques. He set up the camera on a tripod, and left the remote trigger for the camera out so that a macaque that wandered by could take it’s own picture. One of the macaques […]
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Converting files from one type to another is one of the more common tasks in web development. You might have a png, jpg or svg, but need a different file format for your particular use case (more on that below). Today, we will see how to use the Filestack API to convert from one file […]
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Who doesn’t love ASCII art? There are the true artists who create art themselves, a character at a time. For the rest of us, there are lots of great ASCII art generators, for instance Picascii or Text Image. One thing they are missing though is an API to handle the image-to-ASCII conversion. When we were […]
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Developing and maintaining an application that processes many images can be tedious and time consuming – even for the most skilled developer. Filestack strives to automate away the tedium, leaving you more time to focus on your core development. One of the ways we do this is by allowing you to crop, filter, resize, and apply more […]
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In this tutorial, we will walk through using Filestack’s API to upload avatars for applications. Filestack’s team strive provide more and more sophisticated algorithms to manipulate images: This is not just for filtering or image transformations but rather to provide a complete API for users to ease app development. This is actually not the first time we […]
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