Live Stream your webcam

webcam.py

# pip install fastapi uvicorn opencv-python
from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.responses import StreamingResponse
import cv2
import time

app = FastAPI()

def gen_frames():
    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
    while True:
        success, frame = cap.read()
        if not success:
            break
        else:
            frame = cv2.flip(frame, 1)
            _, buffer = cv2.imencode(".jpg", frame)
            frame = buffer.tobytes()
            yield (
                b"--frame\r\n" b"Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n\r\n" + frame + b"\r\n"
            )
        time.sleep(0.05)

@app.get("/")
def video_feed():
    return StreamingResponse(
        gen_frames(), media_type="multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=frame"
    )

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import uvicorn
    uvicorn.run(app, host="0.0.0.0", port=8888)