HEIC to WebP

POST /api/heic-to-webp2 quota units per call · cache hits free

Convert HEIC / HEIF (the iPhone capture format) to WebP. Configurable quality, optional lossless mode, edge-cached.

Takes an HEIC or HEIF image and returns the same picture as WebP. WebP at quality 75 is roughly the perceptual equivalent of JPEG at quality 85 with 25-35% smaller files — a useful default for serving images to modern browsers. Set `lossless: true` for a pixel-perfect round-trip (the HEIC itself is still lossy upstream, but no further loss is added). Animated HEIC sequences are not supported — only the primary image is converted. Limits to be aware of: - Maximum image size: 8 megapixels. - iPhone tile-grid captures (full-resolution photos with the HDR gain map) are rejected with a clear error pointing you to re-export the photo at a lower resolution first.

Inputs

Name	Type	Default	Description
image*	file	—	HEIC or HEIF image bytes.
quality	number (1…100)	75	WebP quality 1–100. Default 75. Ignored when `lossless` is true.
lossless	boolean	false	Lossless WebP encode. Slower and larger.

Response

Modes: binary, stream, json. Cache: yes (24h TTL).

Large outputs stream: responses over the 4 MiB cache limit are piped through as they are produced instead of buffered. They carry x-cache-skip: size and are never cached — identical follow-up calls recompute.

Every response carries x-cache (HIT / MISS / BYPASS), x-cache-signature (stable across identical inputs), and the rate-limit headers listed below.

Quota & limits

Cost per call	2 units against the 10,000-unit monthly quota. Cache hits are free — only cache misses decrement.
Burst limit	200 requests per rolling minute, shared across all tools.
Max request size	`25 MiB` (base64 inflates file payloads ~33% — the limit applies to the decoded bytes).
Max response size	`25 MiB`
Timeout	60s wall clock.
Rate-limit headers	`X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining`, `X-RateLimit-Burst-Limit` on every response; `X-Quota-Warning` once 80% of the monthly quota is spent; `Retry-After` on 429s.

Errors

Errors are JSON with an error string; schema failures add a details object (Zod's flattened field errors).

Status	When	Body
400	Input fails the tool's schema (wrong type, missing required field, malformed base64) or the file bytes can't be parsed as the expected format.	{ "error": "invalid inputs", "details": { "fieldErrors": { … } } }
401	Missing or invalid X-Api-Key / X-Account-Id headers (or no session when called from the browser).	{ "error": "unauthorized" }
404	Unknown tool id, or calling /api/* on the website hostname instead of api.xtract.bot.	{ "error": "not found" }
413	Request body over the tool's max request size, or an image header declaring more megapixels than the tool's pixel budget.	{ "error": "…exceeds maxRequestBytes…" }
415	Content-Type isn't application/json on the json-body transport.	{ "error": "unsupported content-type; expected application/json" }
429	Monthly quota or the 200/min burst limit exhausted. Check Retry-After and the X-RateLimit-* headers.	{ "error": "monthly quota exceeded", "monthRemaining": 0, … }
5xx	Conversion engine failure. Safe to retry; if it persists, the input is hitting a bug — please report it.	{ "error": "…" }

Code samples

Built from the default example.

# Download or substitute the example input:
#   curl -O https://xtract.bot/examples/heic-to-jpeg/sample.heic
IMAGE=$(base64 -w0 < sample.heic)

curl -X POST https://api.xtract.bot/api/heic-to-webp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/octet-stream" \
  -H "X-Account-Id: $XTRACT_ACCOUNT_ID" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $XTRACT_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "image": "'"$IMAGE"'"
}'