PeerTube

PeerTube Video API

Operations dealing with listing, uploading, fetching or modifying videos.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 27

GET /api/v1/accounts/{name}/videos List videos of an account #
POST /api/v1/videos/{id}/token Request video token #
POST /api/v1/videos/{id}/studio/edit Create a studio task #
GET /api/v1/videos List videos #
GET /api/v1/videos/categories List available video categories #
GET /api/v1/videos/licences List available video licences #
GET /api/v1/videos/languages List available video languages #
GET /api/v1/videos/privacies List available video privacy policies #
PUT /api/v1/videos/{id} Update a video #
GET /api/v1/videos/{id} Get a video #
DELETE /api/v1/videos/{id} Delete a video #
POST /api/v1/videos/{id}/views Notify user is watching a video #
POST /api/v1/videos/upload Upload a video #
POST /api/v1/videos/upload-resumable Initialize the resumable upload of a video #
PUT /api/v1/videos/upload-resumable Send chunk for the resumable upload of a video #
DELETE /api/v1/videos/upload-resumable Cancel the resumable upload of a video, deleting any data uploaded so far #
POST /api/v1/videos/live Create a live #
GET /api/v1/videos/live/{id} Get information about a live #
PUT /api/v1/videos/live/{id} Update information about a live #
GET /api/v1/videos/{id}/source Get video source file metadata #
DELETE /api/v1/videos/{id}/source/file Delete video source file #
POST /api/v1/videos/{id}/source/replace-resumable Initialize the resumable replacement of a video #
PUT /api/v1/videos/{id}/source/replace-resumable Send chunk for the resumable replacement of a video #
DELETE /api/v1/videos/{id}/source/replace-resumable Cancel the resumable replacement of a video #
GET /api/v1/videos/{id}/storyboards List storyboards of a video #
GET /api/v1/video-channels/{channelHandle}/videos List videos of a video channel #
GET /api/v1/search/videos Search videos #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/rest-getting-started
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APIReference
https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-rest-reference.html
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RateLimits
https://artifacts.apis.io/peertube/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://artifacts.apis.io/peertube/openapi/peertube-video-api-openapi.yml

Other Resources

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Plugins
https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/plugins
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EmbedPlayer
https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/embed-player
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ActivityPub
https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/activitypub
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Plans
https://artifacts.apis.io/peertube/plans/plans.yml
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FinOps
https://artifacts.apis.io/peertube/finops/finops.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

peertube-video-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: PeerTube Video API
  version: 8.1.0
  contact:
    name: PeerTube Community
    url: https://joinpeertube.org
  license:
    name: AGPLv3.0
    url: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/LICENSE
  x-logo:
    url: https://joinpeertube.org/img/brand.png
    altText: PeerTube Project Homepage
  description: The PeerTube API is built on HTTP(S) and is RESTful.
servers:
- url: https://peertube2.cpy.re
  description: Live Test Server (live data - latest nightly version)
- url: https://peertube3.cpy.re
  description: Live Test Server (live data - latest RC version)
- url: https://peertube.cpy.re
  description: Live Test Server (live data - stable version)
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/peertube/openapi/peertube-video-api-openapi.yml