Media API General

This document provides an overview of the Video Cloud Media API.

The Media API is a REST-based API for accessing the content and metadata in your Video Cloud account. Because the Media API is a REST-based API, it can be accessed from a wide variety of places in your web applications, not just on the client, but in your dynamically-generated web pages or server-side synchronization processes, for example.

Getting Started with the Media API Using ActionScript

This document presents the basic steps to help you get started making Media API queries from ActionScript.

Media API: Getting Started Using JavaScript

This document presents the basic steps to help you get started making Media API queries from JavaScript.

Media API Reference

This topic lists some of the modules and objects in the Video Cloud Media API Reference, and provides links to the Media API Reference documentation.

Media API Objects Reference

This topic provides a reference to the Video, Playlist, Image, Rendition, CuePoint, and LogoOverlay objects returned by the Media API's read methods:

Media API Error Message Reference

This is a reference to the error messages returned by the Media API, which include a numerical error code that classifies errors by type.

FAQ: Media API

Common questions about the Video Cloud Media API.

Video Cloud Media API Changes

This document lists the changes we have made to date to the Video Cloud Media API.

Managing Media API Tokens

How to use the API Management page in the Video Cloud Studio to view and copy your Media API tokens.

Making Media API Calls with Dynamic Script Tags

Using dynamic script tags to access the Media API from JavaScript

The Video Cloud SDKs

This topic helps you navigate a number of handy software development kits (SDKs) created by Brightcove and its developer community, which will enhance your ability to use Video Cloud’s publishing, player, and advertising capabilities.

Using XMLHttp to make calls with a proxy

This document provides an overview of how to use XMLHttp from JavaScript to call the Media API via a server-side proxy. Using the XMLHttp object in JavaScript to make calls to the Media API means you don't have to reload the page in order to get more data from the server. Rather, you can make an "inline" request and update only the parts of the current page that you want to change.

Media API: Security Best Practices

Recommendations about how to secure your application's interaction with the Media API.

Building Robust Applications in a Shared Environment

How to design your Media API applications to work with the Video Cloud reliability features.

Media API: SEO Best Practices

Optimizing your pages for search engines gets a lot easier with the Media API, because you can bring your video metadata deeper into your site where search engines can find it. The key is to use the Media API on your application server to dynamically generate pages that have the metadata in them by the time they reach the browser.

Video Tutorial: Enabling the Brightcove APIs

How to Enable API access for a player

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