Bulk Compress Images API
Compress hundreds of images with one setting, ZIP them and see the total savings.
Environment
| Environment | Base URL |
|---|---|
| Production | https://api.sadafiles.com/v1 |
There is one environment and no sandbox, so every request here is real and counts toward your limits.
Request
POSThttps://api.sadafiles.com/v1/tools/bulk-compress-image
- Content type
- multipart/form-data
- Auth
- X-API-Key with tools:run
- Accepts
- jpg, png, webp, avif, gif, bmp, tiff, heic and 1 more
- Files per request
- 1 to 500
- Largest file
- 2 GB
- Job timeout
- 120 s
- Rate weight
- 2 units
Parameters
Send these as a JSON string in the options form field. Anything else is rejected.
| Name | Type | Default | Allowed |
|---|---|---|---|
quality | integer | 80 | min 1, max 100 |
format | string | same | same, webp, avif, jpg, png |
stripMetadata | boolean | true | — |
mode | string | quality | quality, targetSize |
targetKb | integer | — | min 10, KB |
width | integer | — | min 1, max 30000, px |
height | integer | — | min 1, max 30000, px |
fit | string | inside | inside, cover, fill, contain |
keepAspect | boolean | true | — |
preserveDimensionsSearch quality only. Providing width or height always locks the resulting dimensions. An impossible size limit reports an error. | boolean | false | — |
Response
| Status | Body | When |
|---|---|---|
201 | zip, same | The run finished within 60 seconds |
202 | Job summary JSON | Still running; poll the job |
4xx, 5xx | Error JSON | See error codes |
A file response carries X-Sada-Job and X-Sada-Expires-At. For long work, post to /v1/tools/bulk-compress-image/jobs instead. See jobs and webhooks.
Also runs on the device
In the web tool and apps, Bulk Compress Images can run locally with no upload. The API always processes on the server.
Try it yourself!
Pick a file, set the options and run a real request with your key. The code follows your changes.