Overview
Moving from another video platform? Follow our tips and tricks to get your video content migrated to the Playwire Platform. This article will serve as a resource for your developers to plan on ingesting videos into Playwire.
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Get Videos from Platform:
Most popular video platforms provide an API to query your video content library.
- Make authenticated API requests to the video platform you are migrating from
- Make sure to retrieve the title, description, thumbnail and video source URL
- Use the programming language and/or API client of your choice
- Below are helpful links to API references for developers from other video platforms
Ooyala
JW Player
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Prepare Your API Call:
Before making a POST request to the Playwire API, you will have to develop some scripting.
- Required parameters are: your API token, name, source url and category ID (See table)
- See the Playwire API Documentation for the full list of optional parameters you can set
| Video Category | Category ID |
|---|---|
| Animation | 8 |
| Auto | 9 |
| Business | 17 |
| Celebrity | 10 |
| Comedy | 19 |
| Entertainment | 23 |
| Fashion | 24 |
| Food | 5 |
| Foreign & International | 20 |
| Games | 1 |
| Health/Fitness | 6 |
| Home & Living | 12 |
| Kids | 15 |
| Money/Finance | 3 |
| Movies | 16 |
| Music | 14 |
| Nature | 7 |
| News | 11 |
| Religion | 4 |
| Science | 22 |
| Sports | 2 |
| Technology | 21 |
| Travel | 13 |
| TV | 18 |
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POST request to Playwire:
After your data is prepared via your own scripting, you can now make POST requests.
- Review the Playwire API Documentation
- Using your programming language of choice, make POST requests to the Playwire API
- Keep in mind, if you are making hundreds of requests to the API, you may reach a limit
- Please talk to your account manager to increase your rate limit if you reach a limit
- After the initial POST request to upload the video, you can then use the /posters.json API endpoint to upload custom poster images
Ingesting Videos via MRSS
Some video platforms provide a way for syndication using MRSS (Media Real Simple Syndication) which you are able to use to get your videos. Similar to the API method above, you would read the MRSS feed from your video platform account, scrape the title, description and video source URL from each item in the feed and then prepare the call to the Playwire API Video POST endpoint.
