Media API

How can I get confirmation that a video has been updated?
EDITION: Enterprise, Express 499, Pro / CATEGORY: Media API / PRODUCT: Video Cloud

You can use the Media APIs to do this. This gets all the videos that have been modified since the given time. The call you would use is:

Get the id of all videos that have been modified or deleted since March 3rd, 2003.

http://api.brightcove.com/services/library?command=find_modified_videos&from_date=17444520&filter=PLAYABLE,DELETED&video_fields=id&token=[token]

The date, specified in minutes since January 1st, 1970 00:00:00 GMT, of the oldest Video which you would like returned. The format returned is JSON but if you wish it to be RSS, simply add in output=rss like this:

http://api.brightcove.com/services/library?command=find_modified_videos&output=rss&from_date=17444520&filter=PLAYABLE,DELETED&video_fields=id&token=[token]

You can see more examples of the Media APIs here:

http://docs.brightcove.com/en/media/#Video_Read

If you press the + next to each, it expands with details and examples.

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Getting Started with the Media API
Media API Reference

How can I download videos using the Media API?
EDITION: Enterprise, Express 499, Pro / CATEGORY: Media API / PRODUCT: Video Cloud

To obtain the FLV urls of your Videos, you will need to use our Universal Delivery Service and the Media APIs. To do this, you need:

1. An account that is enabled for universal delivery service. You can read more about this here.

2. A Media API token that enables URL access to your media

Once you have set up your account for universal delivery service and enabled delivery of media by HTTP, you can use the Media API to deliver videos by HTTP. To do this, use the Media API read methods with the optional media_delivery=http argument. For example:

http://api.brightcove.com/services/library?command=find_all_videos&token=[INSERT YOUR TOKEN HERE]&media_delivery=http&output=mrss

You can also download videos directly via the Video Cloud Media Module. Please see this page for further instruction.
 

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Accessing Video Content with the Media API
Downloading Video Files in the Media Module

Why does find_all_videos only return 100 records using the Media API?
EDITION: Enterprise, Express 499, Pro / CATEGORY: Media API / PRODUCT: Video Cloud

The reason why find_all_videos only returns 100 records using the Media API is because there is a built-in default page size of 100 for the find_all_videos method.

In order to return all of the records, you need to use the page_number parameter to return the next set of 100, and so on.

The method and all its parameters are listed on our online help center, in the Media API documentation.

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Getting Started with the Media API