Red5 Pro Server API
The Red5 Pro Server API is an HTTP-based REST API for gathering server, application, client, and stream statistics from a running Red5 Pro instance. It exposes endpoints for server health checks, application scope statistics, active stream enumeration and control, connection management, and log access. The API uses token-based authentication via the accessToken parameter and is accessible at port 5080 on any Red5 Pro server deployment. Developers can use it to monitor and manage live streaming infrastructure programmatically.
Red5 Pro Server API is one of 17 APIs that Red5 publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Media, Real-Time, REST, Server Management, and Streaming. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, http://{host}:5080.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Red5 Pro Server API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the query as accessToken (accessToken).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
accessToken— API access token for authenticating Brew Mixer API requests
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Server health, info, and status endpoints
Schemas 3
The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ServerInfo (4 properties), Error (2 properties), PingResponse (2 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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