Hi!
Is it possible to process files uploaded by the users? My use case is that users upload unencoded videos that are huge, and on the server side I would like to use ffmpeg or a sophisticated python script to encode the file and replace the uploaded file with the encoded version. What technique is available for this scenario? Since encoding can take minutes I would prefer a solution that is asynchronous and runs in the background after the upload is done.
I would recommend to check-out the app store, where you should find a workflow app which can be used to execute external script etc.
I have checked that but the documentation is quite scarce and the example processes the file and the output is saved outside of nextcloud. I am not sure how it would be used to modify the data stored in nextcloud.
A more detailed description of the available command line parameters can be found here. You need to parse the the file name “%n”, which also contains the relative path, and then you can run commands within a script etc.