Transloadit Blog

Lately at Transloadit, we've been working on upgrading our /http/import Robot by adding the fail_fast parameter 💪

Markdown helps web content creators, like myself, to easily write text that is suitable for the web. It allows just enough formatting so that humans can still make sense of it, while computers are able to render it with style, using HTML and CSS. Markdown is platform-agnostic, and its syntax can be learned in as little as five minutes. While some argue there are superior formats available, it stands without question that Markdown has become the lingua franca among developers who write blog posts and documentation. It's even used in many day-to-day web applications like Reddit, Gmail, and GitHub. If Markdown hasn't yet become second nature to you, there are many resources available online, such as this cheat sheet that I kept on hand when I took my first steps.

It has been almost seven years since we first announced our Node.js SDK. Since then, the SDK has drastically evolved, but so has the JavaScript language as a whole. These days, developers love the simplicity of the new features that modern-day JavaScript brings to the table, such as Promises or the await and async functions. To keep up with standards, we have rewritten the SDK to use those new features by default. With our latest rebuild, it meant that we needed to release a new major version with breaking changes, but we hope you agree it was worth it! You can still use callbacks, but you would need to callbackify the methods yourself.

As a newly-hired member of the Transloadit support team, I was familiarizing myself with our services when I came across a Stack Overflow question that piqued my interest as it allowed me to combine my love of music with our API. The question was whether our services could be used to generate an animation of a record spinning, and I thought this idea was interesting enough to turn into a blog post.

We recently added a new feature to our /speech/transcribe Robot enabling it to listen to human-spoken language and output SRT files. You can automatically use these files to caption media in video players. And thanks to Transloadit's LEGO-like composability, you can even burn these files straight into the videos themselves. Today, I'd like to show you just how to do that.

It's no secret that we love open source projects here at Transloadit. We have released several ambitious projects such as Uppy and Tus, and our founders even met as a result of contributing to an open source project. We also use many open source tools under the hood such as FFmpeg, which cuts right to the heart of our video encoding.

Having gained some experience in delivering a free service through the GitHub Student Developer Pack and the Github Teacher Toolbox, Transloadit was highly requested to extend a similar deal to more developers. We think this is a great idea and we couldn't be happier to announce we will be doing just that with our new Community Plan.

Today, we are very happy to announce Transloadit's very own Terraform Provider Plugin! In this blog post, we'll go about explaining why that has got us so excited, and how you can set it up for yourself.

Like us at Transloadit, you are probably a fan of streaming services 🎥 But have you ever considered starting your own? Our /video/adaptive Robot has you covered in case you did have a wild idea like that! You can use this Robot to encode mp4 or webm video to either HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) or MPEG-DASH.

In August 2019, we partnered with the GitHub Student Developer Pack, offering students from all over the world our Startup Plan worth $49/month for free while they’re in school.