Brightcove

Brightcove Notifications API

Operations for setting up and managing notifications of changes to your video library.

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GET /v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/subscriptions Get Subscriptions List #
POST /v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/subscriptions Create Subscription #
GET /v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/subscriptions/{{subscription_id}} Get Subscription #
DELETE /v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/subscriptions/{{subscription_id}} Delete Subscription #

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brightcove/refs/heads/main/openapi/brightcove-notifications-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

brightcove-notifications-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Brightcove CMS API Reference Notifications API
  description: 'Reference for the Brightcove CMS API, used to access and manage your media library. To test API requests, you can use our API Testing Tools. For permissions needed for OAuth credentials, see API Operations. For information on authenticating API requests, see the OAuth Overview.


    For additional in-depth guides to features of the API, see the **general documentation**.


    **Base URL**: https://cms.api.brightcove.com'
  version: 1.0.0
  x-bc-access: public
servers:
- url: https://cms.api.brightcove.com
  variables: {}
tags:
- name: Notifications
  description: Operations for setting up and managing notifications of changes to your video library.
paths:
  /v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/subscriptions:
    get:
      tags:
      - Notifications
      summary: Get Subscriptions List
      description: Get a list of all notification subscriptions for the account
      operationId: GetSubscriptionsList
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContentType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Authorization'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: '200'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Subscription'
        '401':
          description: 'UNAUTHORIZED: Authentication failed; check to make sure your client credentials were correct for the access token'
        '403':
          description: 'NOT_AVAILABLE: The resource you are requesting is temporarily unavailable'
        '404':
          description: 'RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND: The api could not find the resource you requested'
        '405':
          description: 'METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED: The HTTP method specified is not allowed for this endpoint'
        '429':
          description: 'TOO_MANY_REQUESTS: You are submitting too many simultaneous requests or too many requests per second'
        '500':
          description: 'UNKNOWN: Issue in Brightcove system; try again later.

            TIMEOUT: Server likely too busy; try again later.'
      deprecated: false
      security:
      - BC_OAuth2:
        - video-cloud/notifications/all
      x-operation-settings:
        CollectParameters: false
        AllowDynamicQueryParameters: false
        AllowDynamicFormParameters: false
        IsMultiContentStreaming: false
    post:
      tags:
      - Notifications
      summary: Create Subscription
      description: Establishes up to 10 endpoints that video changes should be sent to. Any change in video metadata will trigger a video change event and a notification - changes to assets used by the video will not trigger change events.
      operationId: CreateSubscription
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContentType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Authorization'
      requestBody:
        description: Establishes up to 10 endpoints that video changes should be sent to. Any change in video metadata will trigger a video change event and a notification - changes to assets used by the video will not trigger change events.
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Subscription'
        required: true
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Subscription created
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Subscription'
        '401':
          description: 'UNAUTHORIZED: Authentication failed; check to make sure your client credentials were correct for the access token'
        '403':
          description: 'NOT_AVAILABLE: The resource you are requesting is temporarily unavailable'
        '404':
          description: 'RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND: The api could not find the resource you requested'
        '405':
          description: 'METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED: The HTTP method specified is not allowed for this endpoint'
        '422':
          description: 'Unprocessable_Entity: 1) You already have a subscription for the video-change event that delivers to that address; 2) the endpoint or events field is missing from the request; 3) you already have 10 subscriptions to this event'
        '429':
          description: 'TOO_MANY_REQUESTS: You are submitting too many simultaneous requests or too many requests per second'
        '500':
          description: 'UNKNOWN: Issue in Brightcove system; try again later.

            TIMEOUT: Server likely too busy; try again later.'
      deprecated: false
      security:
      - BC_OAuth2:
        - video-cloud/notifications/all
      x-operation-settings:
        CollectParameters: false
        AllowDynamicQueryParameters: false
        AllowDynamicFormParameters: false
        IsMultiContentStreaming: false
  /v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/subscriptions/{{subscription_id}}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Notifications
      summary: Get Subscription
      description: Get a notification subscription for the account
      operationId: GetSubscription
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/SubscriptionId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContentType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Authorization'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: '200'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Subscription'
        '401':
          description: 'UNAUTHORIZED: Authentication failed; check to make sure your client credentials were correct for the access token'
        '403':
          description: 'NOT_AVAILABLE: The resource you are requesting is temporarily unavailable'
        '404':
          description: 'RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND: The api could not find the resource you requested'
        '405':
          description: 'METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED: The HTTP method specified is not allowed for this endpoint'
        '429':
          description: 'TOO_MANY_REQUESTS: You are submitting too many simultaneous requests or too many requests per second'
        '500':
          description: 'UNKNOWN: Issue in Brightcove system; try again later.

            TIMEOUT: Server likely too busy; try again later.'
      deprecated: false
      security:
      - BC_OAuth2:
        - video-cloud/notifications/all
      x-operation-settings:
        CollectParameters: false
        AllowDynamicQueryParameters: false
        AllowDynamicFormParameters: false
        IsMultiContentStreaming: false
    delete:
      tags:
      - Notifications
      summary: Delete Subscription
      description: Delete a notification subscription for the account
      operationId: DeleteSubscription
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AccountId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/SubscriptionId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ContentType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Authorization'
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Item was deleted
        '401':
          description: 'UNAUTHORIZED: Authentication failed; check to make sure your client credentials were correct for the access token'
        '403':
          description: 'NOT_AVAILABLE: The resource you are requesting is temporarily unavailable'
        '404':
          description: 'RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND: The api could not find the resource you requested'
        '405':
          description: 'METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED: The HTTP method specified is not allowed for this endpoint'
        '429':
          description: 'TOO_MANY_REQUESTS: You are submitting too many simultaneous requests or too many requests per second'
        '500':
          description: 'UNKNOWN: Issue in Brightcove system; try again later.

            TIMEOUT: Server likely too busy; try again later.'
      deprecated: false
      security:
      - BC_OAuth2:
        - video-cloud/notifications/all
      x-operation-settings:
        CollectParameters: false
        AllowDynamicQueryParameters: false
        AllowDynamicFormParameters: false
        IsMultiContentStreaming: false
components:
  schemas:
    Subscription:
      properties:
        endpoint:
          description: the notifications endpoint
          example: https://solutions.brightcove.com/bcls/di-api/cms-callbacks.php
          type: string
        events:
          description: list of events subscribed to
          example:
          - video-change
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            enum:
            - video-change
        id:
          description: system id for the subscription
          example: a0847083-79f4-4315-8a2c-403465a3d9bc
          readOnly: true
          type: string
        service_account:
          description: the Video Cloud account id
          example: '57838016001'
          readOnly: true
          type: string
      title: Subscription
      type: object
  parameters:
    AccountId:
      description: Video Cloud account ID.
      explode: false
      in: path
      name: account_id
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      style: simple
    Authorization:
      description: 'Authorization: Bearer {access_token} - see [Getting Access Tokens](/oauth/code-samples/oauth-api-sample-get-access-token.html)'
      explode: false
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      style: simple
    SubscriptionId:
      description: Subscription ID.
      explode: false
      in: path
      name: subscription_id
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      style: simple
    ContentType:
      description: 'Content-Type: application/json'
      example: application/json
      explode: false
      in: header
      name: Content-Type
      required: true
      schema:
        default: application/json
        type: string
      style: simple
  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/video/read: Video Read
            video-cloud/video/create: Video Create
            video-cloud/video/update: Video Update
            video-cloud/video/delete: Video Delete
            video-cloud/video/all: Video ALL
            video-cloud/asset/delete: Digital Master Delete
            video-cloud/playlist/read: Playlist Read
            video-cloud/playlist/create: Playlist Create
            video-cloud/playlist/update: Playlist Update
            video-cloud/playlist/delete: Playlist Delete
            video-cloud/playlist/all: Playlist All
            video-cloud/sharing-relationships/read: Sharing Relationships Read
            video-cloud/sharing-relationships/create: Sharing Relationships Create
            video-cloud/sharing-relationships/update: Sharing Relationships Update
            video-cloud/sharing-relationships/delete: Sharing Relationships Delete
            video-cloud/sharing-relationships/all: Sharing Relationships All
            video-cloud/notifications/all: Notifications All
            video-cloud/video/clear-sources: Read clear sources
x-bc-implicit-head: true
x-bc-implicit-options: true
x-bc-upstream: https://backend_server