Media API General

Getting Started with the Media API

An introduction to the Brightcove Media API, a REST-based API for accessing the content and metadata in your Brightcove account.

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Getting Started with the Media API Using ActionScript

This document presents the basic steps to help you get started making Media API queries from ActionScript.

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Media API: Getting Started Using JavaScript

This document presents the basic steps to help you get started making Media API queries from JavaScript.

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Media API Reference

A link to the Brightcove Media API Reference.

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Media API Objects Reference

This topic provides a reference to the Video, Playlist, and other objects returned by the Media API's read methods.

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Media API Error Message Reference

A reference to the error messages returned by the Media API, which include a numerical error code that classifies errors by type.

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Brightcove Media API Changes

This document lists the changes we have made to date to the Brightcove Media API.

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Managing Media API Tokens

Using the API Management page in the Brightcove Studio to view and copy your API tokens.

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Making Media API Calls with Dynamic Script Tags

Using dynamic script tags to access the Media API from JavaScript

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Using XMLHttp to make calls with a proxy

This document provides an overview of how to use XMLHttp from JavaScript to call the Media API via a server-side proxy. Using the XMLHttp object in JavaScript to make calls to the Media API means you don't have to reload the page in order to get more data from the server. Rather, you can make an "inline" request and update only the parts of the current page that you want to change.

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