WebFileTools API

Daily database backup (bash + cron)

#!/bin/bash
DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
pg_dump mydb > backup_$DATE.sql
URL=$(curl -s -X POST https://webfiletools.com/api/upload \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer wft_YOUR_KEY" \
  -F "file=@backup_$DATE.sql" | jq -r '.url')
echo "Backup available at: $URL"

Batch upload invoice PDFs (Python)

import os, requests, time

API_KEY = "wft_YOUR_KEY"
for name in os.listdir("./invoices"):
    if not name.endswith(".pdf"):
        continue
    with open(f"./invoices/{name}", "rb") as f:
        r = requests.post(
            "https://webfiletools.com/api/upload",
            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
            files={"file": f},
        )
    print(f"{name} → {r.json().get('url')}")
    time.sleep(0.5)

GitHub Actions — publish a build artifact

- name: Publish artifact
  run: |
    URL=$(curl -s -X POST https://webfiletools.com/api/upload \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.WFT_API_KEY }}" \
      -F "file=@dist/app.zip" | jq -r '.url')
    echo "Download: $URL" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY

Index scanned contracts into a database (Python)

OCR a full folder and store extracted text in PostgreSQL.

import os, requests, psycopg2

API_KEY = "wft_YOUR_KEY"
conn = psycopg2.connect("dbname=docs user=admin")
cur = conn.cursor()

for pdf in os.listdir("./contracts"):
    if not pdf.endswith(".pdf"):
        continue
    with open(f"./contracts/{pdf}", "rb") as f:
        r = requests.post(
            "https://webfiletools.com/api/v1/process/ocr",
            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
            files={"file": f},
            data={"lang": "eng"},
        )
    text = r.json()["text"]
    cur.execute("INSERT INTO contracts (filename, content) VALUES (%s, %s)", (pdf, text))

conn.commit()

Extract text from a screenshot (Node.js)

import FormData from "form-data";
import fs from "fs";

const form = new FormData();
form.append("file", fs.createReadStream("screenshot.png"));
form.append("lang", "eng");

const res = await fetch("https://webfiletools.com/api/v1/process/ocr", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer wft_YOUR_KEY", ...form.getHeaders() },
  body: form,
});

const { text, chars } = await res.json();
console.log(`Extracted ${chars} characters:`, text);

Optimize PDFs before email attachment (Python)

Reduce file size before attaching, display compression ratio.

import requests

API_KEY = "wft_YOUR_KEY"

with open("annual-report.pdf", "rb") as f:
    r = requests.post(
        "https://webfiletools.com/api/v1/process/compress-pdf",
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
        files={"file": f},
        data={"quality": "ebook"},
    )

with open("annual-report-compressed.pdf", "wb") as out:
    out.write(r.content)

orig  = int(r.headers["X-Original-Size"])
comp  = int(r.headers["X-Compressed-Size"])
saved = r.headers["X-Savings-Percent"]
print(f"{orig//1024} KB → {comp//1024} KB (-{saved}%)")

Batch compression pipeline (bash)

#!/bin/bash
for f in ./reports/*.pdf; do
  name=$(basename "$f" .pdf)
  curl -s -X POST https://webfiletools.com/api/v1/process/compress-pdf \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer wft_YOUR_KEY" \
    -F "file=@$f" \
    -F "quality=ebook" \
    -o "./reports-compressed/$name-compressed.pdf"
  echo "✓ $name"
done

Generate presentation thumbnails (Node.js)

Convert a PDF to PNGs, extract the first page as a thumbnail.

import FormData from "form-data";
import fs from "fs";
import AdmZip from "adm-zip";

const form = new FormData();
form.append("file", fs.createReadStream("slides.pdf"));
form.append("dpi", "96");  // light DPI for thumbnails

const res = await fetch("https://webfiletools.com/api/v1/process/pdf-to-images", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer wft_YOUR_KEY", ...form.getHeaders() },
  body: form,
});

const zipBuf = Buffer.from(await res.arrayBuffer());
const zip = new AdmZip(zipBuf);

// Save only page 1 as thumbnail
zip.extractEntryTo("page-001.png", "./thumbs", false, true);
console.log(`Total pages: ${res.headers.get("X-Page-Count")}`);

Make / n8n automation (cURL)

In an n8n or Make HTTP node, call the endpoint directly.

curl -X POST https://webfiletools.com/api/v1/process/pdf-to-images \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer wft_YOUR_KEY" \
  -F "file=@document.pdf" \
  -F "dpi=150" \
  -o pages.zip

# Unzip pages
unzip -o pages.zip -d ./pages/