Mux Assets API
An asset refers to a piece of media content that is stored or is being live streamed through the Mux system. An asset always has a duration and one or more tracks (audio, video, and text data).The media content of an asset cannot be updated once created, however an asset can be used to create another asset, and can be modified within that process.
Mux Assets API is one of 38 APIs that Mux publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Assets. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.
This API exposes 17 operations across 12 paths, and defines 31 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version v1.
Requests are made against 4 base URLs: https://api.mux.com, https://image.mux.com, https://stream.mux.com, https://stats.mux.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 3
Mux Assets API declares
3 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (accessToken).
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (authorizationToken).
basicAuth— HTTP Basic auth using a Mux Access Token ID (username) and Secret (password).accessToken— The Mux Video API uses an Access Token and Secret Key for authentication. If you haven't already, [generate a new Access Token](https://dashboard.mux.com/setti…authorizationToken— OAuth authorization token, used as a Bearer Auth header
Paths & Operations 17
Across 12 paths, the API surfaces 17 operations — 4 DELETE, 4 GET, 2 PATCH, 5 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Manage video on-demand assets.
Schemas 31
The contract defines 31 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Asset (31 properties), Track (17 properties), AssetOptions (17 properties), StaticRendition (12 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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