Media Processing libraries

#webdev #javascript

As a web developer in any technology, media processing and storage are crucial components of your project but now with so many options out there as these sites will provide you with the tools you need to manage and optimise your media files.

Embed.ly: Provides APIs for embedding media in a web page, responsive image scaling, extracting elements from a web page. The free plan allows up to 5000 URLs/month at 15 requests.
Cloudinary: A service for image upload, powerful manipulations, storage & delivery for sites and apps with libraries
Cloudimage: A full image optimisation and CDN service, It offers a variety of image resizing, compression, watermarking functions & open source plugins for responsive image, image making etc...
imgbot: Imgbot is a friendly robot that optimises your images and saves you time, optimised images mean smaller files sizes without sacrificing quality. It uses lossless compression by default.
Transloadit: Handles file upload and encoding of video, audio, images, documents.
Uploadcare: Uploadcare is a media pipeline platform that offers a range of tools for develoers such as file uploading API & UI, Image CDN and origin services with compression
Gofile: Free file sharing and storage platform, can be used via web based UI and also API. unlimited file size, bandwidth, download count etc...