For live sports or broadcast media, FileCatalyst can begin transferring files while they are still being encoded . This prevents the bottleneck of waiting for a file to "finish" before movement starts.

This guide focuses on automating file transfer workflows using FileCatalyst as the transport engine.

fta-cli --log-level DEBUG --log-file /var/log/fc_workload.log --put file.dat

headers = "X-API-Key": API_KEY resp = requests.post(f"API_BASE/transfer", json=payload, headers=headers) transfer_id = resp.json()["id"]