Uploading Videos

The video upload via REST API is a very useful feature for system integrators to synchronize the VideoManager with a CMS-master.

Upload-options are full-file or chunked upload, furthermore you can optionally specify title, description and keywords as metadata, as well as define a channel-ID and group-ID the uploaded video will be assigned to.

The following steps are necessary for the upload and are described in detail:

Creating a video entity (with title, description)
picking up a upload link from the file handler (the link has a timeout)
uploading video.

1 Creating a Video Entity

First you need to create a new video entity in the VideoManager, in which you want to upload a video.

Request

curl -X POST https://api.video-cdn.net/v1/vms/< videoManagerId>/videos" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"title\":\"<VIDEO TITLE>\", \"description\":\"<VIDEO DESCRIPTION\", {\"keywords\":\"<KEYWORD>\"}, {\"group\":\"<GROUP ID>\", {\"channel\":\"<CHANNEL ID>\", {\"fileName\":\"<FILE NAME>\""

Parameter	Description
videoManagerId	The ID of the VideoManager, in which you intend to upload the video, e.g. "v1".

JSON-attributes

The parameter "fileName" is mandatory, all other parameters are optional.

{
title: "some title",
description: "some description",
keywords: ["foo", "bar"],
group: 7,
channel: 5,
fileName: "some_video.mp4"
}

Content

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1 Creating a Video Entity

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