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Brightcove Playlists API

Operations for managing video playlists.

Documentation Provider Profile APIs.io OpenAPI GitHub

Brightcove Playlists API is one of 53 APIs that Brightcove publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Playlists. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 8 operations across 5 paths, and defines 20 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://cms.api.brightcove.com.

8 operations 5 paths 20 schemas 1 DELETE5 GET1 PATCH1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://cms.api.brightcove.com/v1
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Brightcove Playlists API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (BC_OAuth2) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 18 scopes.

  • BC_OAuth2 — Brightcove OAuth API. See the [support documentation](/oauth/index.html) or [Getting Access Tokens](/oauth/code-samples/oauth-api-sample-get-access-token.html)…

Paths & Operations 8

Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 1 DELETE, 5 GET, 1 PATCH, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Playlists 8

Operations for managing video playlists.

GET
/v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/playlists
Get Playlists
GetPlaylists 7 params → 200400401404405429
POST
/v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/playlists
Create Playlist
CreatePlaylist 3 params body → 201400401404405409422429
GET
/v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/counts/playlists
Get Playlist Count
GetPlaylistCount 4 params → 200400401404405429
GET
/v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/playlists/{{playlist_id}}
Get Playlists by ID
GetPlaylistById 4 params → 200400401404405429
PATCH
/v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/playlists/{{playlist_id}}
Update Playlist
UpdatePlaylist 4 params body → 200400401404405409422429
DELETE
/v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/playlists/{{playlist_id}}
Delete Playlist
DeletePlaylists 4 params → 204400401404405429
GET
/v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/playlists/{{playlist_id}}/videos
Get Videos in Playlist
GetVideosInPlaylist 8 params → 200400401404405429
GET
/v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/counts/playlists/{{playlist_id}}/videos
Get Video Count in Playlist
GetVideoCountInPlaylist 4 params → 200400401404405429

Schemas 20

The contract defines 20 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Video (39 properties), Playlist (12 properties), TextTrack (8 properties), Transcript (8 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

VideoVariants
array
Array of video variants
VideoImages
object
map of image maps - the map name is in the form label.language where the label is one of poster, thumbnail, portrait, square, wide or ultra-wide, and the langu…
VideoVariant2
object
Object containing language-specific metadata for a video
5 properties
Link
object
map of related link properties - can only be added on update, not creation
2 properties
PlaylistCount
object
1 property
CuePoint
object
5 properties 2 required
Playlist
object
12 properties
Geo
object
map of geo-filtering properties
3 properties 3 required
Schedule
object
map of scheduling properties
2 properties
VideoPreviewSource
object
HLS manifest entry for animated preview
3 properties
Transcript
object
8 properties 2 required
Video
object
Object containing metadata for a video
39 properties
VideoVariant3
object
Object containing language-specific metadata for a video
5 properties
PlaylistInputFields
object
8 properties
VideoVariant
object
Object containing language-specific metadata for a video
5 properties
User
object
information about who created or modified a video, if available
3 properties
Sharing
object
map of the sharing properties for the video
5 properties
TextTrack
object
8 properties
VideoCountInPlaylist
object
1 property
VideoPreview
object
Animated thumbnail preview metadata for the video
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

brightcove-playlists-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
brightcove:brightcove-playlists-api
Base URL
https://cms.api.brightcove.com/v1
Docs
https://apis.support.brightcove.com/cms/
Provider
Brightcove
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