We are a Swiss Army knife for your files
Transloadit is a service for companies with developers. We handle their file uploads and media processing. This means that they can save on development time and the heavy machinery that is required to handle big volumes in an automated way.
We pioneered with this concept in 2009 and have made our customers happy ever since. We are still actively improving our service in 2026, as well as our open source projects uppy.io and tus.io, which are changing how the world does file uploading.
Automatically reject files containing copyright
This demo showcases how to reject any files containing copyright, this is achieved by checking our files meta description and only allowing files containing no copyright metadata to be passed through.
Now we know what we will be creating, let's break down what's happening.
Using 🤖/file/filter we can setup various meta data conditions our
Robot can follow. By using the Job Variable
file.meta.* we specify that any file containing no value in the copyright meta data field can be
passed, this will ensure no file you use in your templates contain copyright.
For this demo, we had to add copyright metadata to a file. If you want to do that, please see the following demo.
Step 1:
Handle uploads
We can handle uploads of your users directly.Learn more
":original": {
"robot": "/upload/handle"
}Step 2:
Filter files
We let you reject, or direct files against different encoding Steps.Learn more
"filter": {
"use": ":original",
"robot": "/file/filter",
"result": true,
"accepts": [
[
"${file.meta.copyright}",
"==",
""
]
],
"error_on_decline": false
}Step 3:
Export files to Amazon S3
We export to the storage platform of your choice.Learn more
"exported": {
"use": [
":original",
"filter"
],
"robot": "/s3/store",
"credentials": "demo_s3_credentials",
"url_prefix": "https://demos.transloadit.com/"
}Live Demo. See for yourself
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This live demo is powered by 
Uppy, our open source file uploader that you can also use without Transloadit, and 
tus, our open protocol for resumable file uploads that is making uploading more reliable across the world.
Build this in your own language
<!-- This pulls Uppy from our CDN -->
<!-- For smaller self-hosted bundles, install Uppy and plugins manually: -->
<!-- npm i --save @uppy/core @uppy/dashboard @uppy/remote-sources @uppy/transloadit ... -->
<link
href="https://releases.transloadit.com/uppy/v3.10.0/uppy.min.css"
rel="stylesheet"
/>
<button id="browse">Select Files</button>
<script type="module">
import {
Uppy,
Dashboard,
ImageEditor,
RemoteSources,
Transloadit,
} from 'https://releases.transloadit.com/uppy/v3.10.0/uppy.min.mjs'
const uppy = new Uppy()
.use(Transloadit, {
waitForEncoding: true,
alwaysRunAssembly: true,
assemblyOptions: {
params: {
// It's often better store encoding instructions in your account
// and use a `template_id` instead of adding these steps inline
steps: {
':original': {
robot: '/upload/handle',
},
filter: {
use: ':original',
robot: '/file/filter',
result: true,
accepts: [['${file.meta.copyright}', '==', '']],
error_on_decline: false,
},
exported: {
use: [':original', 'filter'],
robot: '/s3/store',
credentials: 'demo_s3_credentials',
url_prefix: 'https://demos.transloadit.com/',
},
},
},
},
})
.use(Dashboard, { trigger: '#browse' })
.use(ImageEditor, { target: Dashboard })
.use(RemoteSources, {
companionUrl: 'https://api2.transloadit.com/companion',
})
.on('complete', ({ transloadit }) => {
// Due to `waitForEncoding:true` this is fired after encoding is done.
// Alternatively, set `waitForEncoding` to `false` and provide a `notify_url`
console.log(transloadit) // Array of Assembly Statuses
for (const assembly of transloadit) {
console.log(assembly.results) // Array of all encoding results
}
})
.on('error', (error) => {
console.error(error)
})
</script>
So many ways to integrate
Transloadit is a service for companies with developers. And there are many ways developers can put Transloadit to good use inside your company to automate media processing.
Bulk imports
Add one of our import Robots to acquire and transcode massive media libraries.
Handling uploads
We are the experts at reliably handling uploads. We wrote the protocol for it.
Front-end integration
We integrate with web browsers via our next-gen file uploader Uppy and SDKs for Android and iOS.
Back-end integration
Send us batch jobs in any server language using one of our SDKs or directly interfacing with our REST API.
Pingbacks
Configure a notify_url to let your server receive transcoding results JSON in the transloadit POST field.
On-demand
Use our Smart CDN to adapt files on-demand and stream them directly to your users.
File filtering
Document processing