# FastAPI backend to receive video chunks from React frontend # and save them as .webm files on Windows # # Install dependencies: # pip install fastapi uvicorn python-multipart # # for VITE_BACKEND_URL=http://localhost:8000 # # Run: # uvicorn test:app --reload --port 8000 from fastapi import FastAPI, UploadFile, File from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware from contextlib import asynccontextmanager import os from datetime import datetime # ── Folder setup ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # This creates a "frames" folder in the same directory as main.py SAVE_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "frames") # Create the folder if it doesn't exist yet os.makedirs(SAVE_DIR, exist_ok=True) # ── Lifespan (replaces deprecated @app.on_event) ────────────────────────────── @asynccontextmanager async def lifespan(app: FastAPI): # Runs on startup print(" FastAPI is running on http://localhost:8000") print(f" Saving frames to: {SAVE_DIR}") yield # Runs on shutdown print("─" * 50) # ── App setup ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── app = FastAPI(lifespan=lifespan) # Allow React frontend (Vite runs on 5173 by default) to talk to this backend app.add_middleware( CORSMiddleware, allow_origins=["*"], allow_credentials=True, allow_methods=["*"], allow_headers=["*"], ) # ── Route ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── @app.post("/api/detect") async def detect(chunk: UploadFile = File(...)): """ Receives a video chunk (blob) from the React frontend every 2 seconds. Saves it as a .webm file inside the frames/ folder. """ # Read raw bytes from the uploaded blob blob_bytes = await chunk.read() # ── Validation ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Log what we received in the terminal print(f"[RECEIVED] size: {len(blob_bytes)} bytes | type: {chunk.content_type}") # Reject empty chunks if len(blob_bytes) == 0: print("[ERROR] Empty chunk — skipping save") return JSONResponse( content={"error": "Empty chunk received"}, status_code=400 ) # ── Save file ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Use timestamp in filename so chunks don't overwrite each other # Example filename: chunk_20241201_123001_456789.webm timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_%f") filename = f"chunk_{timestamp}.webm" # os.path.join works correctly on Windows save_path = os.path.join(SAVE_DIR, filename) # Write bytes to disk with open(save_path, "wb") as f: f.write(blob_bytes) # Confirm the file actually landed on disk and get its size saved_size = os.path.getsize(save_path) print(f"[SAVED] {save_path} ({saved_size} bytes)") # ── Response ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Feed the saved webm to your model to process # Replace this with your actual model inference (this is a dummy response) return JSONResponse(content={ "label": "REAL", # "FAKE" or "REAL" "confidence": 0.99, # float between 0.0 and 1.0 })