micompress
Compress images, PDFs, video, audio, documents & archives from your terminal or Python. Powered by micompress.com.
A tiny zero-dependency client (standard library only) that sends your file to the MiCompress engine and writes back the optimized result.
pip install micompress
CLI usage
micompress photo.jpg # → photo-min.jpg
micompress *.png --preset extreme
micompress report.pdf slides.pptx -o out/
micompress big.jpg --max-width 1920 --json
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
-o, --output DIR |
Write results to a directory (default: alongside input, -min suffix) |
-p, --preset |
lossless · recommended (default) · extreme |
--max-width PX |
Resize images down to a maximum width |
--token JWT |
Auth token for higher size limits |
--api URL |
Override API base URL |
--json |
Machine-readable output |
-q, --quiet |
Only print errors |
Python API
from micompress import compress_file
data, meta = compress_file("photo.jpg", preset="extreme")
open("photo-min.jpg", "wb").write(data)
print(meta["savedPercent"], "% smaller")
Supported formats
Image (jpg, png, webp, gif, tiff, avif, svg, heic, psd, raw…), PDF & Office docs, video (mp4, mov, mkv, webm…), audio (mp3, wav, flac…), archives (zip, 7z, tar, gz). Full list: https://micompress.com/all-tools
Requirements
Python 3.8+. No third-party dependencies.
License
MIT © MiCompress
Prefer a web UI or bigger batches? Use micompress.com.
1 maintainer
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