Brightcove

Brightcove Account Configuration API

Operations for managing default profiles for the account.

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brightcove-account-configuration-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Brightcove Analytics API Reference Access Tokens Account Configuration API
  description: "Reference for the Brightcove Analytics API, used to retrieve analytics data for your accounts. To test API requests, you can use our <a href=\"/getting-started/concepts-testing-tools-brightcove-apis.html\" target=\"_blank\">API Testing Tools</a>.\n\nFor additional in-depth guides to features of the API, see the **[general documentation](/analytics/index.html)**.\n\n **Base URL**: https://analytics.api.brightcove.com"
  x-bc-access: public
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
- url: https://analytics.api.brightcove.com
  variables: {}
tags:
- name: Account Configuration
  description: Operations for managing default profiles for the account.
paths:
  /accounts/{{account_id}}/configuration:
    get:
      tags:
      - Account Configuration
      summary: Get Default Profile
      description: 'Get the default ingest profile for the account. '
      operationId: GetDefaultProfile
      security:
      - BC_OAuth2:
        - video-cloud/ingest-profiles/account/read
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/account_id'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContentType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Authorization'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: SUCCESS
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DefaultProfileResponse'
        '401':
          description: 'NOT_AUTHORIZED: Credentials are required to access this resource '
        '404':
          description: 'NOT_FOUND: The api could not find the resource you requested '
      deprecated: false
      x-operation-settings:
        CollectParameters: false
        AllowDynamicQueryParameters: false
        AllowDynamicFormParameters: false
        IsMultiContentStreaming: false
    put:
      tags:
      - Account Configuration
      summary: Update Default Profile
      description: 'Updates the default ingest profile for the account. '
      operationId: UpdateDefaultProfile
      security:
      - BC_OAuth2:
        - video-cloud/ingest-profiles/account/write
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/account_id'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContentType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Authorization'
      requestBody:
        description: Updates the default ingest profile for the account.
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpdateDefaultProfilebody'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: SUCCESS
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DefaultProfileResponse'
        '400':
          description: 'BAD_REQUEST: The JSON was not valid '
        '401':
          description: 'NOT_AUTHORIZED: Credentials are required to access this resource. '
        '404':
          description: 'NOT_FOUND: The api could not find the resource you requested '
        '409':
          description: 'CONFLICT: Account configuration already exists for 57838016001; please delete the configuration first, or update it instead.'
      deprecated: false
      x-operation-settings:
        CollectParameters: false
        AllowDynamicQueryParameters: false
        AllowDynamicFormParameters: false
        IsMultiContentStreaming: false
    post:
      tags:
      - Account Configuration
      summary: Set Default Profile
      description: 'Sets an ingest profile as the default for the account. '
      operationId: SetDefaultProfile
      security:
      - BC_OAuth2:
        - video-cloud/ingest-profiles/account/write
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/account_id'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContentType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Authorization'
      requestBody:
        description: Sets an ingest profile as the default for the account.
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SetDefaultProfilebody'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: SUCCESS
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DefaultProfileResponse'
        '400':
          description: 'BAD_REQUEST: The JSON was not valid '
        '401':
          description: 'NOT_AUTHORIZED: Credentials are required to access this resource. '
        '404':
          description: 'NOT_FOUND: The api could not find the resource you requested '
        '409':
          description: 'CONFLICT: Account configuration already exists for 57838016001; please delete the configuration first, or update it instead.'
      deprecated: false
      x-operation-settings:
        CollectParameters: false
        AllowDynamicQueryParameters: false
        AllowDynamicFormParameters: false
        IsMultiContentStreaming: false
components:
  parameters:
    account_id:
      name: account_id
      in: path
      description: Video Cloud account ID.
      required: true
      style: simple
      explode: false
      schema:
        type: string
    Authorization:
      name: Authorization
      in: header
      description: 'Authorization: Bearer access_token (see [Getting Access Tokens](/oauth/code-samples/oauth-api-sample-get-access-token.html))'
      required: true
      style: simple
      explode: false
      schema:
        type: string
    ContentType:
      name: Content-Type
      in: header
      description: 'Content-Type: application/json'
      required: true
      style: simple
      explode: false
      schema:
        type: string
        example: application/json
  schemas:
    UpdateDefaultProfilebody:
      title: Update_Default_ProfileBody
      required:
      - account_id
      - id
      - default_profile_id
      type: object
      properties:
        account_id:
          type: number
          description: Video Cloud account ID
        id:
          type: string
          description: the configuration id (if you do not have it, make a GET request to get it)
        default_profile_id:
          type: string
          description: The id or name of the profile you want to set as the default
          example: multi-platform-standard-static
        default_live_profile_id:
          type: string
          description: The id or name of the live profile you want to set as the default
        default_social_clipping_profile_id:
          type: string
          description: The id or name of the profile you want to set as the default for creating social clips
    DefaultProfileResponse:
      title: Default Profile responses
      type: object
      properties:
        account_id:
          type: number
          description: Video Cloud account id
        id:
          type: string
          description: configuration id
        default_profile_id:
          type: string
          description: profile name for video-on-demand
        default_live_profile_id:
          type: string
          description: default profile name for live streams
        date_created:
          type: number
          description: when the profile was created (epoch time in milliseconds)
        date_last_modified:
          type: number
          description: when the profile was last modified (epoch time in milliseconds)
        version:
          type: number
          description: system-managed version number
      example:
        version: 1526447969284
        account_id: 57838016001
        default_profile_id: videocloud-default-v1
        default_live_profile_id: Live - Standard
        date_created: 1526447969283
        date_last_modified: 1526447969283
        id: 55525f84e4b08e946aa03281
    SetDefaultProfilebody:
      title: Set_Default_ProfileBody
      required:
      - account_id
      - default_profile_id
      type: object
      properties:
        account_id:
          type: number
          description: Video Cloud account ID
        default_profile_id:
          type: string
          description: The id or name of the profile you want to set as the default
          example: multi-platform-standard-static
        default_live_profile_id:
          type: string
          description: The id or name of the live profile you want to set as the default
        default_social_clipping_profile_id:
          type: string
          description: The id or name of the profile you want to set as the default for creating social clips
  securitySchemes:
    BC_OAuth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: Brightcove OAuth API. See the [support documentation](/oauth/index.html) or [Getting Access Tokens](/oauth/code-samples/oauth-api-sample-get-access-token.html) to learn more
      flows:
        clientCredentials:
          tokenUrl: https://oauth.brightcove.com/v4/access_token
          scopes:
            video-cloud/analytics/read: Read analytics data
            video-cloud/video/read: Read video data
x-bc-implicit-head: true
x-bc-implicit-options: true
x-bc-upstream: https://backend_server