birdbox.py

from flask import Flask, send_file
from io import BytesIO
from time import sleep
from picamera import PiCamera
from PIL import Image

app: Flask(__name__)

camera: PiCamera()
camera.resolution: (1024, 768)
## Potential double res mode
##camera.resolution: (2048,1536)
camera.start_preview()
camera.color_effects: (128, 128)
sleep(2)

@app.route('/')
def capture_image():
    my_stream: BytesIO()
    camera.capture(my_stream, 'jpeg')
    my_stream.seek(0)

    # Open the image using Pillow
    image: Image.open(my_stream)

    # Compress the image by reducing the quality
    image.save(my_stream, format='jpeg', quality=50)
    my_stream.seek(0)

    return send_file(my_stream, mimetype='image/jpeg')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host='192.168.50.15', port=8000)