Need help with your APIs? I offer API discovery, governance & evangelism services. Explore services →
API Evangelist API Evangelist
Discovery
Learnings
Guidance
Toolbox
Alignment
API Evangelist LLC

Wowza videos API

Operations related to uploading and categorizing videos.

Wowza videos API is one of 48 APIs that Wowza publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include videos. 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 6 operations across 2 paths, and defines 22 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.

6 operations 2 paths 22 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 PATCH1 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
2.0.0
Base URL
https://api.video.wowza.com/api/v2.0
Authentication
HTTP Basic, HTTP Digest
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Wowza videos 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 credentials
  • digestAuth — HTTP Digest Authentication

Paths & Operations 6

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 PATCH, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

videos 6

Operations related to uploading and categorizing videos.

POST
/videos
Create a video
createVideo body → 200401422
GET
/videos
Fetch all videos
listVideos 11 params → 200401
GET
/videos/{id}
Fetch a video
getSingleVideo 1 param → 200401403404410
PATCH
/videos/{id}
Update a video's metadata
patchVideo 1 param body → 200401403404410422
PUT
/videos/{id}
Re-upload a video
reuploadVideo 1 param body → 200401403404410422
DELETE
/videos/{id}
Delete a video
deleteVideo 1 param → 204401403404410422

Schemas 22

The contract defines 22 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are VideoListModel (16 properties), EncodingModel (12 properties), Pagination (7 properties), AnimatedPreviewModel (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

CreateVideoRequestModel
object
Create Video request for the Wowza Video REST API
1 property 1 required
ThumbnailResponse
object
Link to the VTT file used by the Thumbnails plug-in. See [Thumbnails](https://developer.wowza.com/docs/wowza-flowplayer/plugins/preview-thumbnails/) to learn m…
1 property
DRMProviderConfigModel
object
Contains configuration for one DRM provider.
2 properties
ReuploadVideoRequestModel
object
Reupload Video request for the Wowza Video REST API. In this request it's only possible to add a new version of the video file. To change the metadata, use the…
1 property 1 required
CreateVideoResponseModel
object
Video Response from the Wowza Video REST API
1 property
VideoResponseModel
object
Video Response from the Wowza Video REST API
1 property
Pagination
object
7 properties
VideoListModel
object
List Video response from the Wowza Video REST API
16 properties
DRMConfigModel
object
Contains all DRM configurations for one video.
3 properties
Error401
object
1 property 1 required
VideoList
object
2 properties
EncodingModel
object
Array containing all available Video files and their metadata
12 properties
Error403
object
1 property 1 required
FetchInputRequest
object
3 properties 2 required
Error422
object
1 property 1 required
Error410
object
1 property 1 required
InputVideoRequest
object
Specifies the input method for uploading the video. There are two methods to choose from: DIRECT or FETCH. Expand the input description, by clicking the next t…
AnimatedPreviewModel
object
The animated previews for the video.
4 properties
PatchVideoRequestModel
object
Patch Video request for the Wowza Video REST API
1 property
DirectInputRequest
object
1 property 1 required
ImageModel
object
Images used together with the video in the platform and the player. For platform video images specified in create and update requests, these are uploaded and d…
2 properties
Error404
object
1 property 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

wowza-videos-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Wowza publishes across the network.

Wowza Streaming Engine Java API
Wowza Flowplayer
Wowza GoCoder SDK
Wowza Real-Time Streaming SDK
Wowza advanced_token_authentication API
Wowza analytics_engagement API
Wowza analytics_ingest API
Wowza analytics_popularity API
Wowza analytics_viewers API
Wowza Applications API
Wowza assets API
Wowza categories API