snapWONDERS — Expose what's hidden. Hide what's yours.

snapwonders — Python client for the snapWONDERS API

The official Python client for the snapWONDERS API: steganography, forensic media analysis, and format conversion. The client wraps the resumable TUS upload and the session → job → poll → download choreography so that a whole job is a couple of lines.

All the snapWONDERS API services are available over the Clearnet / Web and Dark Web Tor and I2P.

Status. Published — pip install snapwonders (0.1.2).

See it in action

Hide a secret image inside a cover — the stego output looks pixel-identical, but carries the hidden file, recoverable only with the password:

Secret (hidden inside)	Cover (input)	Stego output (carries the secret)

The full walkthrough — steganography, forensic analysis (with a real graded result), and conversion — is in examples/WALKTHROUGH.md.

Installation and setup

snapWONDERS API key

You will need a snapWONDERS API key before you can get started:

• Sign up and create an account at snapWONDERS sign-up. If you wish to create an account via Tor or I2P then you can do so by accessing snapWONDERS through the Tor or I2P portals. For the dark web links visit browsing safely.
• Under your account settings, generate an API key. New keys start with sw_. It is sent as the X-Api-Key header on every request — keep it secret.

Install the package

pip install snapwonders

Quickstart

from snapwonders import Client

client = Client(api_key="sw_your_key_here")   # base_url defaults to https://snapwonders.com
print(client.status())                          # no key needed for status

# Hide a secret inside a cover image (the last file is the cover).
job = client.stego.hide(["secret.png", "cover.jpg"], password="Str0ng!Pass")
for result in job.results():
    result.download("out/")                     # "out/" is a directory — the server filename is kept

# Reveal it again.
job = client.stego.reveal("out/cover-share.avif", password="Str0ng!Pass")
job.results()[0].download("recovered/")

client.analyse (forensic analysis) and client.convert (media conversion) follow the same shape — one call in, results out:

# Forensic analysis — grade each file A–F, collect the overlay assets it produced.
job = client.analyse.run(["photo.jpg"], face_detection=True)
for item in job.results():
    print(item.filename, item.grade, item.face_count)
    for asset in item.assets:        # ELA map, face overlay, …
        asset.download("out/")

# Convert media — the image format key is `image_format` (jpeg/png/webp/avif/heic/jxl).
job = client.convert.run(["photo.png"], image_format="webp")
job.results()[0].download("out/")

Prefer to drive each stage yourself? The step-by-step surface is public too: create_session → upload(path, step=…) → wait_for_uploads() → start_job(**opts) → wait() → results().

Examples

Runnable end-to-end examples live in examples/ — steganography, forensic analysis, and conversion, each a self-contained script with a bundled sample image:

export SNAPWONDERS_API_KEY=sw_your_key_here
python examples/hide_and_reveal.py     # hide a file in an image, then reveal it
python examples/analyse.py             # grade an image A–F + download overlay assets
python examples/convert.py             # JPEG → WebP

See examples/WALKTHROUGH.md for the real input/output images and a live forensic-analysis JSON result, or examples/README.md for how to run them.

Errors

Every failure the SDK raises is a typed subclass of SnapwondersError, so you can branch on the kind of failure rather than inspecting HTTP status codes:

Running the tests

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest                       # offline smoke tests — no API key required
# integration tests need SNAPWONDERS_TEST_API_KEY set against the dev API

Documentation

Useful documentation can be found at:

• The interactive Swagger UI and full endpoint reference: snapWONDERS API
• A guided, step-by-step integration walkthrough: snapWONDERS Developers

Contact

For security concerns

If you have spotted any security concerns then please reach out via contacting snapWONDERS and set the subject to "SECURITY CONCERNS" and provide the information about your concerns. If you wish to contact via Tor or I2P then you can do so by accessing snapWONDERS through the Tor or I2P portals. For the dark web links visit browsing safely.

For FAQ and questions

It may be that your question is already answered in the FAQ. Be sure to check the FAQ content first. Otherwise you may reach out via contacting snapWONDERS.

For contacting the author

Use this link to contact the author Kenneth Springer.

Why snapWONDERS exists

This project started with my son, Huey.

Huey lost his eyesight and was legally blind from the age of four. Years ago, in the car, while we were working on Hueyify together, he insisted the idea could be applied to digital media: stories embedded inside a photo, so that people with vision impairments could get the personal context, the memory and the feeling behind it. Hidden from everyone else. Only for the person it was meant for.

He was excited at the thought of it. I'll admit the technical difficulty put me off, and I was vocal about it. The look of disappointment kept returning to me, because to Huey it all made sense. We lost Huey at sixteen. I could never let go of that conversation.

snapWONDERS came first, to understand what digital media actually contains and who can see it. Vaultify came after, and it is the closest thing I've built to what Huey described. As of September 2026, snapWONDERS and Vaultify have processed more than six million media jobs.

The full story is at https://vaultify.snapwonders.com/our-story

May peace be with you,
Kenneth Springer

Licence

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Kenneth Springer @ snapWONDERS. See LICENSE.

Scope. The MIT licence covers this client library only. It grants no rights in the snapWONDERS API, service, data, models, or algorithms it communicates with — these are proprietary and remain the property of Kenneth Springer @ snapWONDERS. This library only sends HTTP requests to the API; it contains none of its implementation. Using the API requires a valid API key and is governed by the snapWONDERS Terms of Service.