The Uplynk API suite provides a comprehensive set of tools to streamline your video workflow, from content acquisition to delivery and analytics. These APIs enable you to automate processes, integrate with existing systems, and optimize media distribution while ensuring seamless monetization and security. Whether you're managing assets, handling ad integrations, or retrieving playback statistics, Uplynk APIs offer scalable solutions tailored to your needs.
The APIs are categorized into six core functions:
- General – Essential APIs for authentication and user management.
- Acquire – Tools for ingesting and processing content.
- Manage – APIs for handling assets, schedules, and configurations.
- Monetize – Ad-related APIs to enhance revenue generation.
- Deliver – APIs for seamless content distribution and playback.
- Analyze – APIs for monitoring performance and gathering insights.
| API | Description |
|---|
| Authentication | Handles API authentication and security. |
| Owners | Manages API keys. |
| Subowners | Manages sub-owners associated with your account. |
| API | Description |
|---|
| Slicer | Marks ads, replacement content, or content boundaries, sets metadata, and retrieves Live Slicer status information. |
| Cloud Slicer VOD | Slices and encodes content in the cloud. |
| Studio DRM | Manages Studio DRM policy configurations. |
| Live Slicer Failover | Manages failover groups, adds/removes channels, and toggles a failover group's source feed. |
| Hosted Slicers | Manage Cloud Slicer Live (CSL) slicers, ingest points, slicer configuration templates, and CSL tasks. |
| API | Description |
|---|
| Ads | Retrieves information about ads and ad settings. |
| Ad Server Debug | Retrieves information about ad jobs. |
| Syndication | Administers publishing configurations and schedules, validates stream URLs, and starts/stops publishing to social media platforms. |
| Clip & Draft Clip | Manage clips and draft clips. |
| API | Description |
|---|
| AssetInfo | Retrieves metadata about the currently playing asset. |
| Ping | Provides player time tracking, triggered events, and playhead updates, also used for VAST and VPAID ad integration. |
| Preplay | Retrieves live channel playback URLs and pre-playback ad break information. |
| Token | Verifies tokens against a playback URL. |
This structured categorization helps streamline the API selection process based on specific use cases. Let us know how we can assist with integration and optimization!
