Apply on-the-fly image transformations to a stored Filestack file using the Processing API's URL-based task syntax
domain: filestack.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Take the CDN URL of an already-uploaded Filestack handle as the base for transformation
Insert one or more processing tasks into the URL path using the `TASK=option:value,option:value` syntax (e.g. resize, crop, rotate) rather than calling a separate REST endpoint per operation
Chain multiple tasks in a single URL by separating them with forward slashes, letting Filestack apply them in sequence to produce one derived output
Request the transformed URL once to trigger processing, and rely on Filestack's CDN-level caching (on the order of 30 days) for subsequent requests to the same transformed URL
For non-image content, use the equivalent document- or video/audio-specific processing tasks documented separately from image transformations
Known gotchas
The Processing API is not a traditional discrete-endpoint REST API — mistyped task/option syntax in the URL path tends to fail the whole request rather than being ignored gracefully
Transformations are non-destructive and always produce a new derived resource; the original stored file is never modified in place
Cached transformed URLs persist for a documented window (about 30 days) — re-requesting the same transformation URl within that window does not count as a fresh transformation, which matters for both cost and freshness expectations if the source file changes
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