We are thrilled to announce the release of Filestack V3.29.0, which brings with it a range of exciting enhancements in accessibility. This latest update is designed to align with the WCAG 2.0 Level AA standards, ensuring a more inclusive and user-friendly experience for all our users, especially for those using assistive technologies. Why Accessibility Matters […]
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Filestack Image Enhancement – your go-to tool for making your pictures look amazing! The way your images look is super important. Filestack makes it easy to make your pictures stand out and grab attention. With simple integration, it helps you make your photos look better without any complications. In this blog, we’ll talk about why […]
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We are thrilled to announce the latest update to Filestack, packed with powerful enhancements and significant quality improvements based on valuable feedback from our users. In this release, we have prioritized addressing reported issues, resulting in improved functionality and an enhanced user experience. Let us take you through the standout features and enhancements that make […]
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We are thrilled to share that Filestack SDKs now support newer versions of iOS, Android, and Ruby on Rails, ensuring smoother integration, improved efficiency, and fewer errors when you integrate them into your applications. This update significantly improves Filestack SDKs’ efficiency. It enables developers to take advantage of new features and optimizations that iOS, Android, […]
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Filestack has always been dedicated to staying on the cutting edge of technology, and this new update demonstrates that commitment. We are thrilled to announce the latest release of Filestack, which improves compatibility for Webpack 5, React, and Angular. This release offers seamless integration and enhances the user experience of modern JS frameworks. Let’s dive […]
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As a tech company, we know how crucial good features are for you and your users. Video is now a key way to draw in viewers and share important messages. We’re excited to launch a simple, marketplace-style method to add new features to your work. This easy-to-use, ‘a-la-carte’ portal lets you quickly add and use […]
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We know that exceptional customer support is vital in a competitive business world. That’s why we are excited to announce the upcoming launch of Filestack Platinum Support, a dedicated service designed to cater to your urgent needs. With a dedicated account team, priority request reviews and updates, priority bug fixes, and the option of a […]
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Do you need to add file upload functionality to your WordPress site but none of the available plugins are streamlined enough or powerful enough to your liking? The Filestack WordPress Upload plugin can help! The Filestack WordPress Upload plugin allows you or your users to upload images, documents, and videos directly from Facebook, Instagram, Google […]
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We’re glad to announce the new Filestack WordPress Plugin. WordPress is a platform you can trust. Still, it might be hard to keep video files in good shape and change them. The latest Filestack WordPress plugin is now available, which is good news because it will make your WordPress experience better. This strong tool has […]
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We are back with some exciting news for WordPress users! The long-awaited Filestack WordPress Upload V2.0 is finally released with some impressive improvements and new features. Filestack WordPress Upload V2.0 features include: New file picker improvements Additional upload control settings New callbacks Shortcode improvements File Convert Widget A Video to Audio Converter widget. Various minor […]
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Filestack just got a lot better with the addition of Microsoft’s SSO. With this feature, you can now use your Microsoft account for Filestack. Login into your Filestack account using Google and Slack. With this addition, we’ve made it a priority to make logins easier for you and your team. This feature […]
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One of the most common and problematic login issues we face today is managing different passwords across and switching between different applications and tools. In this article, we will be discussing how Filestack solves these problems with Microsoft SSO (single sign-on). Everyone has had login frustrations at some point. For some, it could be the […]
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What are the constituents of uploading a file on React.js? You will inadvertently run into unexpected problems within a React framework during any file upload session. To commence a React file upload, simply install and configure the file uploader. Inspect the code for the App class, which encloses the following items: File state onFileChange onFileUpload formData […]
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Last year Amazon AWS announced plans to deprecate the path-style access to the S3 buckets. In that model, Amazon S3 URLs follow the format where bucket name is specified in the path part of the URL, as shown below: <i>https://s3.</i><i>Region</i><i>.amazonaws.com/</i><i>bucket-name</i><i>/</i><i>key name</i> For some time now, Amazon AWS has provided an alternate way to access S3 […]
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As a developer, you spend incredible amounts of time creating or searching for solutions to improve image quality for your website. Images in your application and what you do with those images will make or break your site and impact your user experience. While quality images are required for the functionality of your site, the […]
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At Filestack, our mission is to create a complete toolkit for content processing that evolves with the needs of developers. We’ve built a series of use case specific tools and APIs including file uploads (1.8B uploads to date), transformations (27B content processing operations in 2019), intelligence and delivery which can all be tied together with […]
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Many folks don’t use HTML5 <picture> tag or webp for optimizing images (and they should!) We’ll explain how to use dynamic image sizing and webp, a new(ish) image format from Google that can make png’s and jpg’s. The results are great. We can reduce a large page from about 30MB to 5MB. We’ll look at “old school” methods to solve […]
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Automated analysis and information extraction from pictures of structured documents is one of the use cases we have at Filestack for applied machine learning. We are working with envelopes, receipts, invoices, and most recently: checks. Checks are a medium of a little archaic form of monetary transfers – almost unseen outside United States, nevertheless used […]
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Document Detection and Preprocessing is one of Filestack’s latest intelligent products. Not only is its main objective detecting the documents in the images, transformations, and denoising, but it can also serve as an advanced tool for enhancing and improving OCR results. The following article explores and elaborates on the details of how this tool has […]
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If you’re building Android mobile apps that work with files, those files should be uploaded, transformed, and delivered to your users with intelligence. Filestack’s Android SDK makes this a breeze, so you can drop in world-class content management functionality and save time and energy on your development sprints. The new version of Filestack’s Android SDK […]
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We started out as a tool for developers created by developers. Thousands of you have embraced our toolset for over 6 years as the go-to service that wipes away the pain and struggles of expensive and time-intensive tasks. We’re thrilled to announce the next step in the evolution of our swiss army knife of developer […]
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Introducing the revamped Filestack Developer Portal. When this project began, the most important goals in mind were arming our users with more functionality, and making access to their data as easy as possible. Paired with a switch to a full featured trial, the new developer portal should act as a guide to getting started with […]
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After GDPR in May, June brings another great change in how data is processed online. As you know, the PCI Security Standards Council mandate becomes effective as of the June 30th this year. Therefore, as part of our continued commitment to maintaining a secure platform, we are supporting TLS 1.2 on all our APIs, CDN and Developer […]
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This update brings many exciting improvements, including a new module for Node runtimes and full TypeScript support. After several requests from customers, you can now use filestack-js in your browser and/or your Node apps. The bottom line benefit of using filestack-js in Node is a universal library that uses the same API, client and server […]
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Picture this: you and your family are on a vacation at a beautiful resort. It includes fun, frolic, and the special moments that remind us why life is great. The trip is etched into your memory, and it will be preserved forever through the hundreds of pictures you took. You want to share them […]
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Filestack Adaptive is the tool you need to solve the responsive images problem The problem with responsive images: Solutions for responsive images have come a long way, but they still require a considerable amount of developer effort. We were given a gift a few years back with the HTML5 <picture> tag, which now has widespread […]
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The Need for a Confluence Plugin Every startup has hit the point where they outgrew stickie notes as their primary communication and organization tool, and this demand naturally lead to a highly competitive project management market. Leading the way in this field sits Atlassian whose tremendous suite of products help companies manage projects and customers […]
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Our journey starts out quite differently than any one company that is trying to build the most modern image recognition service. For one, we are not only focused on training, creating models, and building data sets. To us, these are table stakes. We are interested in abstracting key data points out of data oceans and […]
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Filestack’s heritage is pinned deeply to being the world’s best file uploading service. Over the past 5+ years, we’ve had thousands of conversations with customers and prospects about the pains they encounter with file uploading. A common theme: mobile uploads have unique challenges. From maintaining state between cell towers, to ballooning file sizes, to little […]
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We’ve got lots of exciting stuff going on at Filestack right now, including a new release of our File Picker; brand new SDKs in Python, PHP and Ruby; and an update to one of our most popular plugins: Filestack::Rails. Formerly known as Filepicker::Rails, the plugin now includes v3 of our File Picker and adds support […]
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At Filestack we are constantly working to provide the best upload experience for all of our users. Back in March we launched the v3 of the Filestack Web SDK, also commonly referred to as the Filestack file picker. While the web SDK is not the only way to use Filestack, many Filestack users choose this […]
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Filestack provides a robust and scalable solution for content upload and file delivery. We are used for websites, digital services, enterprise software and endless other projects across the industry. Our File Picker is easily integrated into any website, and we have a growing list of SDKs for use in projects of various languages, including plugins […]
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I was recently looking into commonly asked questions about content uploading and found that there are presently 370 active questions on Stackoverflow about how to upload an image taken via webcam. This isn’t a surprising number when all of the aspects involved are considered. I understand these issues first hand because I personally spent weeks […]
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Earlier this week, Filestack surpassed 100,000 applications! As we continue to develop our product and grow our community, we cannot thank YOU enough for fueling Filestack’s success. We are able to grow thanks to constant requests and genuine feedback. filepicker_production=> select count(*) from apps; count ——– 100001 (1 row) We’re Proud of Every Single App Filestack’s […]
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On April 17, 2017, Filestack became compliant with the EU-US Privacy Shield framework. The EU-US Privacy Shield is a framework for transferring data between the United States and European Union that ensures the data falls within the EU privacy regulations. Privacy Shield replaces Safe Harbor to protect EU citizens’ data from US surveillance and address […]
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The first half of 2017 has been an exciting time for Filestack. In March, we launched the V3 File Picker to enthusiastic community feedback. Now, we are releasing a React Filestack package for our React lovers to easily adopt the V3 File Picker. The new V3 File Picker offers fast uploads from cloud sources, a streamlined UI, […]
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The new Filestack Content Ingestion Network will dramatically increase speed for users uploading files from any region in the world. Normally, when users upload files, you have to wait until the file is uploaded to your storage before you can access it. Only once the file is stored properly in its destination (with services like […]
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Filestack has recently launched our File Picker V3 with a minimalistic design, in-app image transformations, and an even faster file uploading API. In case you missed it, you can read more about the new features and improvements in our article Filestack Launches File Picker V3. The new UI is what everyone needs in a modern website. […]
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Now with a minimalistic design, in-app image transformations, and faster file uploading API. Today, we are proud to launch the newest version of our File Picker. The result of months of user research and beta testing, the File Picker V3, a more powerful uploading API and new features to create the ultimate file uploading experience for […]
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Hello! It’s Caitlin, your friendly neighborhood data sleuth. I was waiting to write about a really cool experiment where we found awesome things and were super successful for my second blog post, but instead I’m going to talk about getting things wrong. For a long time we’ve been hearing from users who wanted something […]
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The past year was an exciting time for the Filestack community. After transitioning from Filepicker to Filestack at the end of 2015, we started 2016 with a new goal: To be the complete, end to end solution for file uploading and management. We’re proud to say that in 2016, Filestack powered 260 Million […]
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Filestack has long been enabling developers to allow end users to directly upload multiple files from multiple cloud sources like Dropbox, Facebook, and Google Drive in a seamless experience. The ability to save solitary files back to cloud sources or a user’s computer is a little known Filestack feature. Today we are proud to announce […]
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Here at Filestack, we are never done developing. As the Internet and general technology are constantly evolving, our mission to apply new functionality to our files management API is forever growing. It is with great pleasure that I am showing you the newest available feature for our Filestack Pro clients: We just released a set of Image Enhancements built […]
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No longer do you need to include your Filestack API key in your file URL when transforming images, videos, audio files, or documents. As long as the file you are transforming has a Filestack URL or handle, you can now simply write (https://process.filestackapi.com) / (desired transformation parameters)/ the file handle or URL. The Old Way (which […]
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When we launched Filestack, our goal was to make the normally complicated process of managing end user content ridiculously easy. So we built a files API for developers to help end users upload files from over 20+ cloud sources (think Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram–all the places where we actually store files these days). Devs can then apply hundreds […]
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Just a quick update that we have added OAuth integration to our Developer Portal. You are now able to register or login to manage your Filestack apps using your Github, Google, or Slack credentials. If you are already a Filestack user and would like to link one of these OAuth accounts, simply go to the Account Settings page by […]
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We’re excited to announce some upgrades to our system, thanks to our Content Delivery Network (CDN) Partner Fastly. First, is the addition of a POP in Canada. This means visitors from Canada spend less time waiting for your content, instead of enjoying it. Secondly, Fastly has also added capacity by expanding the POPs in New […]
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Our goal is to ensure that our product is the perfect fit for all of our customers, from our entrepreneurs bootstrapping their startups, to our enterprise customers running websites and applications for millions of users. In addition to our traditional self service plans, Filestack is now introducing Filestack Pro, designed for the needs of high […]
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When it comes to running a successful business, knowing is, at minimum, half the battle. Up until now, Filestack reserved account-level analytics as a premium feature of paid accounts. Starting this week we’ve unlocked that feature for all account types, from the free Hobbyist plan to our Enterprise-level custom accounts tailored for specific use cases […]
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We’re happy to announce that the latest version of our iOS Library, 5.1.0, is now available from CocoaPods. The latest version removes iOS 9 deprecated codes and libraries. Among the iOS 9 code that was removed is the ALAssetsLibrary which provided access to photos and videos under control of the Photos application, but has been […]
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