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The REST API's video upload feature is useful for creating a custom upload portal or UI, and for system integrators to synchronize the VideoManager Pro with a CMS-mastercontent management system.

You can upload the file in chunks or whole. Furthermore, you Uploading with the API is done via chunking. You have the option to specify include metadata, such as a title, description , and keywords as metadata. You can also define a the channel ID and group ID that the uploaded video will be assigned to.

To upload a video via the REST API, follow the steps listed below are necessary. While the first two steps are executed through the API, the upload is done via a separate file handler URL.

  1. Create a video entity (with a filename) in a specified VideoManager

  2. Get the upload URL from the file handler

  3. Upload a video

The following chapters describe how to perform each step using cURL to demonstrate usage in the examples.

Note

The URLs in the methods throughout the following chapters refer to the general live instance of movingimage. Customers using a VideoManager on a custom domain must adjust the URLs accordingly.