Shotstack Create API

openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: Shotstack Create API
  description: Shotstack is a cloud video-editing platform that renders video, image, and audio assets from a JSON edit specification. This document covers the Edit API (render and templates), the Ingest API (source assets), the Serve API (asset hosting and delivery), and the Create API (AI-generated assets). All endpoints authenticate with an `x-api-key` header. Each API is available in a `v1` (production) and `stage` (sandbox) environment.
  termsOfService: https://shotstack.io/terms/
  contact:
    name: Shotstack Support
    url: https://shotstack.io/contact/
  version: '1.0'
servers:
- url: https://api.shotstack.io
  description: Shotstack production and sandbox host (use /edit/v1 or /edit/stage, etc.)
security:
- apiKey: []
tags:
- name: Create
  description: Generate AI assets such as text-to-speech and text-to-image.
paths:
  /create/v1/assets:
    post:
      operationId: generateAsset
      tags:
      - Create
      summary: Generate an AI asset
      description: Generate an AI asset (text-to-speech, text-to-image, image-to-video, or text generation) using a built-in or third-party provider. Returns an asset ID to poll for the generated, hosted asset.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/GenerateAssetRequest'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Generation queued.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GenerateAssetResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /create/v1/assets/{id}:
    get:
      operationId: getGeneratedAsset
      tags:
      - Create
      summary: Get a generated asset
      description: Retrieve the status and URL of a generated AI asset by ID.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AssetId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A generated asset.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GenerateAssetResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  schemas:
    GenerateAssetResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        data:
          type: object
          properties:
            type:
              type: string
              example: asset
            id:
              type: string
              format: uuid
            attributes:
              type: object
              properties:
                id:
                  type: string
                  format: uuid
                owner:
                  type: string
                provider:
                  type: string
                type:
                  type: string
                status:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - queued
                  - processing
                  - done
                  - failed
                url:
                  type: string
                  format: uri
                created:
                  type: string
                  format: date-time
                updated:
                  type: string
                  format: date-time
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
          example: false
        message:
          type: string
        response:
          type: object
          properties:
            error:
              type: string
            code:
              type: string
    GenerateAssetRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - provider
      - options
      properties:
        provider:
          type: string
          description: The generation provider.
          enum:
          - shotstack
          - elevenlabs
          - stability-ai
          - openai
        options:
          type: object
          required:
          - type
          properties:
            type:
              type: string
              enum:
              - text-to-speech
              - text-to-image
              - image-to-video
              - text-generation
            text:
              type: string
              description: Prompt or text input for the generation.
            prompt:
              type: string
            voice:
              type: string
            language:
              type: string
  parameters:
    AssetId:
      name: id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The asset ID.
      schema:
        type: string
        format: uuid
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: The requested resource was not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid x-api-key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    BadRequest:
      description: The request was malformed or failed validation.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key
      description: Developer API key. The same key set is used by all Shotstack APIs.