Wowza live_streams API
Operations related to live streams. A live stream is a single, linear video broadcast. You broadcast a live stream by receiving encoded source video into the Wowza Video service and letting Wowza Video transcode the stream and deliver it to viewers. A live stream is essentially a one-stop method for creating a transcoder, output renditions, stream targets, and associated players.
Wowza live_streams API is one of 48 APIs that Wowza publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include live_streams. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, API documentation, a getting-started guide, and a changelog.
This API exposes 11 operations across 8 paths, and defines 17 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 2.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, http://localhost:8087.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Wowza live_streams API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
It uses HTTP digest authentication (digestAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
basicAuth— HTTP Basic Authentication using Wowza Streaming Engine admin credentialsdigestAuth— HTTP Digest Authentication
Paths & Operations 11
Across 8 paths, the API surfaces 11 operations — 1 DELETE, 4 GET, 1 PATCH, 1 POST, 4 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Operations related to live streams. A live stream is a single, linear video broadcast. You broadcast a live stream by receiving encoded source video into the Wowza Video service a…
Schemas 17
The contract defines 17 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are live_stream (51 properties), player_response_object (13 properties), player_request_object (12 properties), player_request_object_create (10 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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