Online visual content is king. Everyone knows how important videos and Animated GIFs are for businesses to connect with their audience. Both on social media and in marketing campaigns.
Often it can be time consuming and require specialized skills to create these GIF's. That's where a Video to GIF APIs is useful. This article discusses how businesses can benefit from using a Video to GIF API to create engaging content.
Use GrabzIt's animated GIF service to help users quickly preview a video by making a short animated GIF clip. Of course a great feature of animated GIF's is that they don't require any complicated technology play. You can use the animated GIF service to capture the most interesting part of a video as a still image.
An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of protocols, tools, and definitions for building software applications. A Video into GIF API allows developers to convert videos to Animated GIFs online in their apps. This means businesses can easily add this feature to their current systems without starting from scratch.
Our API can convert a video from many file formats and to a high quality GIF. The API is a especially good MP4 to GIF Converter.
Integrating a Video to GIF API into your business processes can save you time and money. Instead of hiring a designer or using expensive software. You can simply use the API to create a GIF from a video clip. Often this can also remove the need for time consuming process of making animated GIF's manually.
GrabzIt designed its APIs to easily integrate into existing systems. This means that businesses don't need to have extensive technical knowledge to use a Video to GIF API. With just a few lines of code, you can have the functionality up and running on your website or application.
GrabzIt's API is versatile and offers various options for businesses to meet their specific requirements. These options include things like adjusting the size. The frame rate, aspect ratio, and quality of the GIF or adding custom watermarks.
As your business grows, so does your need for visual content. GrabzIt's API helps you increase the number of GIF's you produce without needing more resources. This makes it a cost-effective solution for businesses of all sizes.
Use GrabzIt's animated GIF service to enable your users to quickly experience a video by creating an animated GIF video clip. Of course a great feature of animated GIF's is that they don't require any complicated technology play! Alternatively you could use the animated GIF service to extract the best part of a video as a still image to display to your users.
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Start 7 Day Free TrialTo add GrabzIt's Video to GIF API to your website or app. Just choose one of the nine different programming languages from below. Then follow the instructions on how to convert a video to gif.
As this example code demonstrates only a few lines of code are needed to convert online videos into animated GIF's using ASP.NET. To start creating animated GIF's just download the ASP.NET Library, get your Application Key and Secret and then use the demo contained within. Finally read the API documentation for ASP.NET to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.
GrabzItClient grabzIt = new GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");
grabzIt.URLToAnimation("http://www.example.com/video.mp4");
grabzIt.SaveTo("animations/result.gif");
As this example code demonstrates only a few lines of code are needed to convert online videos into animated GIF's using Java. To start creating animated GIF's just download the Java Library, get your Application Key and Secret and then use the demo contained within. Finally read the API documentation for Java to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.
GrabzItClient grabzIt = new GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");
grabzIt.URLToAnimation("http://www.example.com/video.mp4");
grabzIt.SaveTo("animations/result.gif");
As this example code demonstrates only a few lines of code are needed to create a GIF from a video clip using JavaScript. To start creating animated GIF's download GrabzIt's JavaScript Library. Then get your Application Key and Secret, add the domain you want to use the JavaScript on and finally read the API documentation for JavaScript to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@grabzit/js@<%= APIVersion.JavaScript %>/grabzit.min.js"></script>
<script>
GrabzIt("Sign in to view your Application Key").ConvertURL("http://www.example.com/video.mp4",
{"format":"gif"}).Create();
</script>
As this example code demonstrates only a few lines of code are needed to create a animated GIF from a online video using Node.js. To start creating animated GIF's just download the Node.js Package, get your Application Key and Secret and then use the demo contained within. Finally read the API documentation for Node.js to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.
var grabzit = require('grabzit');
var client = new grabzit("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");
client.url_to_animation("http://www.example.com/video.mp4");
client.save_to("animations/result.gif", function (error, id){
if (error != null){
throw error;
}
});
As this example code demonstrates only a few lines of code are needed to create a animated GIF from a online video using Perl. To start creating animated GIF's just download the Perl Library, get your Application Key and Secret and then use the demo contained within. Finally read the API documentation for Perl to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use GrabzItClient;
$grabzIt = GrabzItClient->new("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");
$grabzIt->URLToAnimation("http://www.example.com/video.mp4");
$grabzIt->SaveTo("animations/result.gif");
As this example code demonstrates only a few lines of code are needed to create a animated GIF from a video using PHP. To start creating animated GIF's just download the PHP Library, get your Application Key and Secret and then use the demo contained within. Finally read the API documentation for PHP to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.
include("GrabzItClient.php");
$grabzIt = new \GrabzIt\GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");
$grabzIt->URLToAnimation("http://www.example.com/video.mp4");
$grabzIt->SaveTo("animations/result.gif");
As this example code demonstrates only a few lines of code are needed to convert online videos into animated GIF's using Python. To start creating animated GIF's just download the Python Library, get your Application Key and Secret and then use the demo contained within. Finally read the API documentation for Python to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.
from GrabzIt import GrabzItClient
grabzIt = GrabzItClient.GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret")
grabzIt.URLToAnimation("http://www.example.com/video.mp4")
grabzIt.SaveTo("animations/result.gif")
This code shows how simple it is to change online videos into GIFs using GrabzIt's RESTful API The API documentation contains even more ways you can customize your captures.
https://api.grabz.it/services/convert?key=Sign in to view your Application Key&format=gif&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fvideo.mp4
As this example code demonstrates only a few lines of code are needed to convert online videos into animated GIF's using Ruby. To start creating animated GIF's just download the Ruby Gem, get your Application Key and Secret and then use the demo contained within. Finally read the API documentation for Ruby to find out all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.
require 'grabzit'
grabzItClient = GrabzIt::Client.new("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret")
grabzItClient.url_to_animation("http://www.example.com/video.mp4")
grabzItClient.save_to("animations/result.gif")
If you don't want to use an API or write any code. Then GrabzIt's Screenshot Tool allows you to create GIF's from normal video clips, YouTube or Vimeo videos. All completely online in the cloud quickly and easily.