from fastapi import FastAPI from fastapi.responses import StreamingResponse some_file_path = "large-video-file.mp4" app = FastAPI() @app.get("/") def main(): def iterfile(): # (1) with open(some_file_path, mode="rb") as file_like: # (2) yield from file_like # (3) return StreamingResponse(iterfile(), media_type="video/mp4")