OmniC

A stateless microservice framework that creates on-the-fly thumbs and previews of a zillion different filetypes.

pip install omnic

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What is OmniC?

OmniC can do a lot of things. Most likely you will want it for making visualizations and thumbnails without (any other) backend code. It is inspired in part by White Noise -- notably, reducing complexity by serving media with Python.

Conversion Graph

  • You give it a file and desired outcome, and it finds the shortest path
  • OmniC comes "batteries included", and comes with converters for 3D files, documents, images, git repos, JS files, and more
  • If that's not enough, it only takes a few lines to add your own converter
  • OmniC doesn't reinvent any wheels, instead it aims to be a framework for stitching together existing tried-and-true CLI converters (such as ImageMagick, unoconv, or ffmpeg) and expose them all as a microservice

Microservice media server

  • OmniC is a web server that listens to requests like /media/thumb.png:200x200/?url=mysite.com/myimage.jpg, and then downloads the myimage.jpg file, generates a 200x200 thumbnail of it, and responds with that thumbnail.
  • It can also do filetype conversions like /media/PDF/?url=mysite.com/mydoc.doc for a PDF representation of a ``.doc`` file.