Convert a File

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Headers

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Behavior

• Send the file as multipart/form-data. Only the first file in the request is read.
• The response body is the converted file itself, sent as an attachment, not JSON. Write it straight to disk.
• The source format is detected from the file’s own bytes, not its name or the declared content type.
• What can become what: PNG, JPG and WebP convert to png, jpeg, webp, avif or gif. GIF converts to png, jpeg, webp, avif or mp4. MP4, MOV and MKV convert to mp4, gif or mp3.
• Video to GIF requires Snipp+ and uses the first 10 seconds only, at 15fps and 480px wide.
• MP4 output is remuxed with +faststart when the source is already H.264, and transcoded otherwise.
• Metadata is always stripped. Images are re-encoded without it and videos are written with -map_metadata -1. JPG orientation is applied to the pixels first, so photos stay the right way up.
• Files are capped at 50 MB on the free plan. Snipp+ and Ultra have no per-file cap, the same as /upload. Conversion runs inside the request, so a large video can take a while to come back.
• Rate limited to 10 conversions per minute. Converting does not count toward your weekly upload limit.
• To host the result, pipe it into POST /upload. Note that avif and mp3 are not accepted upload types, so those two are download-only.

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Examples

curl -X POST "https://api.snipp.gg/convert" \
  -H "api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "convert-target: webp" \
  -F "file=@screenshot.png" \
  -o screenshot.webp

curl -X POST "https://api.snipp.gg/convert" \
  -H "api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "convert-target: mp3" \
  -F "file=@clip.mp4" \
  -o clip.mp3

curl -X POST "https://api.snipp.gg/convert" \
  -H "api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "convert-target: mp4" \
  -F "file=@loop.gif" \
  -o loop.mp4

curl -X POST "https://api.snipp.gg/upload" \
  -H "api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@loop.mp4"

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Responses

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: image/webp
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="screenshot.webp"
Content-Length: 184320

{
  "error": "That file cannot be converted to this format."
}